Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet

Wagner, Gernot; Weitzman, Martin L.

ISBN 10: 0691171327 / ISBN 13: 9780691171326

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 2016

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0691171327-3-37166696

Inhaltsangabe:

In Climate Shock, Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman explore in lively, clear terms the likely repercussions of a hotter planet, drawing on and expanding from work previously unavailable to general audiences. They show that the longer we wait to act, the more likely an extreme event will happen. A city might go underwater. A rogue nation might shoot particles into the Earth's atmosphere, geoengineering cooler temperatures. Zeroing in on the unknown extreme risks that may yet dwarf all else, the authors look at how economic forces that make sensible climate policies difficult to enact, make radical would-be fixes like geoengineering all the more probable. What we know about climate change is alarming enough. What we don't know about the extreme risks could be far more dangerous. Wagner and Weitzman help readers understand that we need to think about climate change in the same way that we think about insurance--as a risk management problem, only here on a global scale.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Gernot Wagner is lead senior economist at the Environmental Defense Fund. Martin L. Weitzman (1942–2019) was professor of economics at Harvard University.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of ...
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Good