Derivatives, such as
futures contracts, forward contracts, options, warrants, ETFs, and swaps are estimated by Jeff Desjardins of The Money Project to range in size from $ 630 trillion to $ 1.2
quadrillion.
Because of the way opportunity costs compound over time the world at the turn of the next century will be poorer by the equivalent of $
Quadrillions and I suspect, if we could send a probe to our
future descendants to ask if they would prefer a little less CO2 or an extra $ 500,000 each for everyone on Earth, the answer we get back would not be congratulatory for surrendering to these brain dead mooks.