Climate Shock —— The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet

----- 气候冲击：热行星的经济后果

ISBN: 9780691159478 出版年：2016 页码：268 Wagner, Gernot,Weitzman, Martin L Princeton University Press

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? in climate shock, gernot wagner and martin weitzman 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.