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Government planning horizons are captured by political cycles: elected officials have 2-5 year horizons while infrastructure, climate, and institutional challenges require 30-100 year horizons. This temporal mismatch is structural, not a failure of will. Solutions require architectural decoupling of certain decisions from political cycles.
Climate policy oscillates with elections despite scientific consensus. The problem isn't political will but political architecture: decisions with 100-year consequences are governed by 4-year cycles. See: Temporal Asymmetry, Political Cycle Capture.
See: Temporal Asymmetry, Political Cycle Capture, PPP-LHC