A Tide of Horseshit
David Runciman: Climate Change Impasse, 24 September 2015
Why Are We Waiting? The Logic, Urgency and Promise of Tackling Climate Change
by Nicholas Stern.
MIT, 406 pp., £19.95, May 2015,978 0 262 02918 6 Show More
by Nicholas Stern.
MIT, 406 pp., £19.95, May 2015,
Natural Capital: Valuing the Planet
by Dieter Helm.
Yale, 278 pp., £20, May 2015,978 0 300 21098 9 Show More
by Dieter Helm.
Yale, 278 pp., £20, May 2015,
Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet
by Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman.
Princeton, 250 pp., £19.95, February 2015,978 0 691 15947 8 Show More
by Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman.
Princeton, 250 pp., £19.95, February 2015,
“... It’s hard to come up with a good analogy for climate change but that doesn’t stop people from trying. We seem to want some way of framing the problem that makes a decent outcome look less unlikely than it often appears. So climate change is described as a ‘moonshot problem’, though of course it isn’t, because the moon presents a fixed target and climate change offers anything but – how will we know when we’ve landed? Or it’s a ‘war mobilisation problem’, though of course it isn’t, because there is no clear enemy in view (the enemy is us ... ”