Alligators in the Arctic and How to Avoid Them: Science, Economics and the Challenge of Catastrophic Climate Change Dorman Peter
Alligators in the Arctic and How to Avoid Them: Science, Economics and the Challenge of Catastrophic Climate Change Dorman Peter Climate change is a matter of extreme urgency. Using the carbon budget…
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Alligators in the Arctic and How to Avoid Them: Science, Economics and the Challenge of Catastrophic Climate Change Dorman Peter
Climate change is a matter of extreme urgency. Using the carbon budget framework, it reveals the shortcomings of current policies and the debates around them, such as the popular enthusiasm for individual solutions and the fruitless search for 'optimal' regulation by economists and other specialists. Integrating science and economics, this book demonstrates the need for measures to put a strict lid on cumulative carbon emissions and shows how to implement them.
This wide-ranging study goes against the most prevalent approaches in mainstream economics, which argue that we can tackle climate change while causing minimal disruption to the global economy. On the political front, it explains why business opposition to the policies we need goes well beyond the fossil fuel industry, requiring a more radical rebalancing of power. The author argues that this view is not only impossible, but also