Format:
xiii, 250 pages
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illustrations
,
21 cm
Edition:
Third printing, first paperback printing with a new preface by the authors
ISBN:
0691171327
,
9780691171326
,
9780691159478
,
0691159475
Content:
"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 scale"--Publisher's description
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-242) and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Wagner, Gernot Climate Shock Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2015 ISBN 9780691159478
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Hardcover-Ausgabe Wagner, Gernot, 1980 - Climate shock Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2015 ISBN 0691159475
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691159478
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
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General works
Keywords:
Klimaänderung
;
Wirtschaft
Author information:
Weitzman, Martin L. 1942-2019
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