Alligators in the Arctic and How to Avoid Them: Science, Economics and the Challenge of Catastrophic Climate Change - Couverture rigide

Dorman, Peter

 
9781316516270: Alligators in the Arctic and How to Avoid Them: Science, Economics and the Challenge of Catastrophic Climate Change
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 131651627X ISBN 13 : 9781316516270
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Climate change is a matter of extreme urgency. 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. 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. 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. 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. The author argues that this view is not only impossible, but also dangerously complacent.

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À propos de l?auteur

Peter Dorman is Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
131651627X
ISBN 13 
9781316516270
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
300
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Avery
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