Alligators in the Arctic and how to avoid them : science, economics and the challenge of catastrophic climate change / Peter Dorman, Evergreen State.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dorman, Peter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Economic aspects.

Climatic changes.

Fossil fuels--Environmental aspects.

Fossil fuels.

Carbon dioxide mitigation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 344 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jul 2022).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781009029582 (ebook)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.