Alligators in the Arctic and How to Avoid Them: Science, Economics and the Challenge of Catastrophic Climate Change

Peter Dorman

ISBN 10: 131651627X / ISBN 13: 9781316516270

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2022

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300 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.81 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alligators in the Arctic and How to Avoid Them: Science, Economics and the Challenge of Catastrophic Climate Change
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 131651627X
• ISBN 13: 9781316516270
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.68 kilograms

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Synopsis

Climate change is a matter of extreme urgency. Integrating science and economics, this book demonstrates the need for measures to put a strict lid on cumulative carbon emissions and shows how to implement them. Using the carbon budget framework, it reveals the shortcomings of current policies and the debates around them, such as the popular enthusiasm for individual solutions and the fruitless search for 'optimal' regulation by economists and other specialists. On the political front, it explains why business opposition to the policies we need goes well beyond the fossil fuel industry, requiring a more radical rebalancing of power. This wide-ranging study goes against the most prevalent approaches in mainstream economics, which argue that we can tackle climate change while causing minimal disruption to the global economy. The author argues that this view is not only impossible, but also dangerously complacent.

About the Author

Peter Dorman is Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.