Gernot Wagner
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
You are one of seven billion people on Earth. Whatever you or I do personally-eat tofu in a Hummer or hamburgers in a Prius-the planet doesn't notice. In our confrontation with climate change, species preservation, and a planet going off the cliff, it is what several billion people do that makes a difference. The solution? It isn't science, politics, or activism. It's smarter economics.
The hope of mankind, and indeed of every living thing on the...