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If you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions. If your finances had a 10 percent chance of suffering a se vere loss, you'd reevaluate your assets. So if we know the world is war mi ng and there's a 10 percent chance this might eventually lead to a catastrophe beyond anything we could imagine, why aren't we doing more about climate change right now? We insure our live s against an uncertain future--why not our pla net ?
In Climate Shock, Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman e xplore in lively, clear terms the likely repercussions of a hotter planet, drawing on and e x panding from work previously u nav ailable to general audiences. They show that the longer we wait to act, the more likely an ex treme event will h app en. 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 pro bable. 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 reader s 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.
Demonstrating that climate change can and should be dealt with--and what could happen if we don't do so--Climate Shock tackles the defining environmental and public policy issue of our tim e.
(http://www.amazon.com/Climate-Shock-Economic-Consequences-Hotter/dp/069 11 59475/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1425229998&sr=8-1&key word s=Martin+Weitzman)
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