Book contents
- Climate Rationality
- Climate Rationality
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction and Overview
- Part I The Costs of Precautionary Policy
- Part II The Other Side of the Story
- Part III Toward Rational Climate Policy
- 17 Adapt and Prosper
- 18 The Surprising Sahel
- 19 Selected Policy Implications
- References
- Index
19 - Selected Policy Implications
from Part III - Toward Rational Climate Policy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2021
- Climate Rationality
- Climate Rationality
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction and Overview
- Part I The Costs of Precautionary Policy
- Part II The Other Side of the Story
- Part III Toward Rational Climate Policy
- 17 Adapt and Prosper
- 18 The Surprising Sahel
- 19 Selected Policy Implications
- References
- Index
Summary
In this concluding chapter, I set out what may called the bottom line conclusions that I believe follow from the explanation and analysis provided by previous chapters of this book. These conclusions consist of recommendations for institutional responses to three fundamental problems of climate change: how to facilitate efficient adaptation to changing climate; how to curb present-day CO2 emissions while minimizing the present-day environmental harms and the unfair, regressive costs imposed on today’s poor; and, finally, what to do about the climate science advocacy industry that has produced some very interesting science, but also succeeded in moralizing scientific disagreement in a counterproductive and indeed dangerous way. My proposals follow logically from the analysis in previous chapters. I make no claim that and frankly know of no method for determining whether any of my proposals are politically feasible.
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- Climate RationalityFrom Bias to Balance, pp. 562 - 587Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021