text: I especially like his reminding us of Charles Dickens?s Bleak House and Mrs. Jellyby, the so called ?telescopic philanthropist? who tries to help at a distance, but neglects her own children. I also like his point that by asking for a higher discount rate ?it is not that we do not care about distant generations. It is that we do care about the present generation and about our children?s generation? (p. 83).