Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet
Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet / Gernot Wagner & Martin L. Weitzman. Princeton University Press, 2015, 264 p. – $27.95 / £19.95 – ISBN: 9780691159478
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10414.html
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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.
–> A propos de cet ouvrage :
- Note de lecture de Ian Parry, FMI, parue dans Finances & Développement, mars 20154, p. 57 http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2015/03/pdf/fd0315.pdf
- A New Solution: The Climate Club / William D. Nordhaus, the New York review of books, 4/06/2015 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/jun/04/new-solution-climate-club/
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Danièle Revel (30 avril 2015). Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet. Veille énergie climat. Consulté le 13 décembre 2024 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/obry
