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ABOUT
THE FUTURE
THAT IS "only valid in the present" SEEMS IMPORTANT FOR THE ETHICS OF PROJECTION.

In a simple sense, it weakens the force of propaganda aimed at foreclosing present action based on plausible projections of catastrophic climate degradation; that propaganda is, by your formulation, more clearly shown to rest on the slim reed of possibility that things might not turn out to have been so disastrous (and thus that there would have been no necessity to interfere with the profit motive), not that they are unlikely to be disastrous.

Similarly, and perhaps also commonsensically, it reinforces our responsibility to act in the face of uncertainty according
to our "best understanding" of our present choice of actions and their various likely outcomes.
That our best understanding might (as you point out)
just not be good enough hardly reduces
our responsibility for
the future
NOW.

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