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It's a human impulse to put off deadlines, but here's why dumping the 2030 emissions target won't work
By Peter Martin

Human beings are so keen put things off (as the Coalition wants to with our 2030 emissions target), that economists have come up with a name for it — hyperbolic discounting.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-12/coalition-2030-emissions-target-behavioural-economics/103965096

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