[Zeppo]

And when you project the gap out to an infinite time horizon, it reaches $60 trillion.

However, when you look at an infinite time horizon, you're looking well past the projected extinction of the human race, so by then it will be somebody else's problem...

[misterrob]

Someone else's problem is the crux of all of this inaction. Why solve a problem today when I can punt it down the road and save my job?