Decarbonisation pays a generation that never started it

The claim

Decarbonisation is bottlenecked by commitment more than by technology: it needs binding pledges from the few largest emitters, held for two generations, while its net economic benefit arrives only after the generation that launches and pays for it has largely gone.

Keeping power in check

Argument role: bottleneck. Ch. 7 chunks 551-556. Two reasons: a global accord among a few veto-holding emitters, and a payoff delayed past the payers' lifetimes (break-even about 2080 in a standard climate-economy model, for policy begun in the early 2020s). The 80% share for the top five and the 2080 date each appear in one passage, so they stay in the evidence. The Paris figure (pledges would still mean 50% higher emissions by 2050) is confirmed in a second passage, ch. 6 chunk 473. Application: the same structure as a multi-veto project at planetary scale, which is why it belongs beside the Abundance claims on vetoes.

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Evidence 2 passages

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No real progress can be achieved until at least these top five countries, now responsible for 80% of all emissions, agree to clear and binding commitments.
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the break-even year when the optimal policy would begin to produce net economic benefit for mitigation efforts launched in the early 2020s would be only around 2080.

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