Climate shock[electronic resource] :...
Wagner, Gernot.

 

  • Climate shock[electronic resource] :the economic consequences of a hotter planet /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 363.7387
    書名/作者: Climate shock : the economic consequences of a hotter planet // Gernot Wagner, Martin L. Weitzman.
    作者: Wagner, Gernot.
    其他作者: Weitzman, Martin L.,
    出版者: Princeton, New Jersey : : Princeton University Press,, 2015.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (269 p.)
    標題: Climatic changes - Economic aspects.
    ISBN: 9780691159478
    ISBN: 9780691171326
    ISBN: 9781400880768
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    內容註: Climate shock : the economic consequences of a hotter planet -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Preface: Pop Quiz -- Chapter 1: 911 -- Chapter 2: 411 -- Chapter 3: Fat Tails -- Chapter 4: Willful Blindness -- Chapter 5: Bailing Out the Planet -- Chapter 6: 007 -- Chapter 7: What You Can Do -- Epilogue: A Different Kind of Optimism -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
    摘要、提要註: 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 severe loss, you'd reevaluate your assets. So if we know the world is warming 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 lives against an uncertain future--why not our planet? ... [the authors] 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 scaleใ
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