The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, And Economics For A Warming World
by William D. Nordhaus /
2013 / English / PDF
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Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose
major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have
entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming
dice, warns economist William Nordhaus. But there is still time
to turn around and walk back out of the casino, and in this
essential book the author explains how.
Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose
major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have
entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming
dice, warns economist William Nordhaus. But there is still time
to turn around and walk back out of the casino, and in this
essential book the author explains how.
Bringing together all the important issues surrounding the
climate debate, Nordhaus describes the science, economics, and
politics involved—and the steps necessary to reduce the perils of
global warming. Using language accessible to any concerned
citizen and taking care to present different points of view
fairly, he discusses the problem from start to finish: from the
beginning, where warming originates in our personal energy use,
to the end, where societies employ regulations or taxes or
subsidies to slow the emissions of gases responsible for climate
change.
Bringing together all the important issues surrounding the
climate debate, Nordhaus describes the science, economics, and
politics involved—and the steps necessary to reduce the perils of
global warming. Using language accessible to any concerned
citizen and taking care to present different points of view
fairly, he discusses the problem from start to finish: from the
beginning, where warming originates in our personal energy use,
to the end, where societies employ regulations or taxes or
subsidies to slow the emissions of gases responsible for climate
change.
Nordhaus offers a new analysis of why earlier policies, such as
the Kyoto Protocol, failed to slow carbon dioxide emissions, how
new approaches can succeed, and which policy tools will most
effectively reduce emissions. In short, he clarifies a defining
problem of our times and lays out the next critical steps for
slowing the trajectory of global warming.
Nordhaus offers a new analysis of why earlier policies, such as
the Kyoto Protocol, failed to slow carbon dioxide emissions, how
new approaches can succeed, and which policy tools will most
effectively reduce emissions. In short, he clarifies a defining
problem of our times and lays out the next critical steps for
slowing the trajectory of global warming.