We have better proxies for anything we think is problematic than «total lifetime contributions»; if you're dealing with someone who's got form for making tricksy deals and is a selfish arsehole, and they make an offer the full implications and justification of which you're pretty sure you don't understand, it's I think
a reasonable precautionary principle to reject it.]
And then to show how mild and
reasonable Lovelock is, throw in a bunch of environmentalists who follow the
precautionary principle (the people who've been totally excluded from the CC deabte).