Climate Shock Wagner Gernot
Climate Shock Wagner Gernot 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…
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Climate Shock Wagner Gernot
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. A city might go underwater. They show that the longer we wait to act, the more likely an extreme event will happen.
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. A rogue nation might shoot particles into the Earth's atmosphere, geoengineering cooler temperatures. 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.