Climate Change Is not Only GHGs but Also Economics

Jan-Erik Lane

Applied Economics and Finance, 2018, vol. 5, issue 6, 33-41

Abstract: Climate and Earth scientists have recently provided compelling evidence for abrupt climate change, but this amount to only 50% of this drama. We must ask: If GHGs threaten human survival, why do not humans alter the system of economic production, especially the energy supply responsible for the accelerating global warming? The question of how to transform energy consumption is little discussed: tools, mechanisms, global coordination, country resilience, state or market? Actually, the resistance to energy change is very strong,

Keywords: economics of climate change; Stern; abrupt climate change; energy-human capabilities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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