Every generation inherits the consequences of the choices its predecessors refused to fully reckon with. Australia's seventh intergenerational report, projecting national life out to 2066, acknowledges the mounting pressures of climate change — rising seas, falling harvests, intensifying disasters — yet frames them as uncertainties rather than trajectories already in motion. Economists and researchers argue this framing is not caution but evasion, and that a $2 trillion economic wound visible in the government's own modeling deserves to stand at the center of any honest account of the future.