EAN: 9780691171326

CLIMATE SHOCK - GERNOT WAGNER MARTIN L WEITZMAN...

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.

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