Climate Shockepub,mobi,azw3格式电子书下载，作者：Gernot Wagner-读书派

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. Zeroing in on the unknown extreme risks that may yet dwarf all else, the authors look at how economic forces that make sensible climate policies difficult to enact, make radical would-be fixes like geoengineering all the more probable. What we know about climate change is alarming enough. What we don't know about the extreme risks could be far more dangerous. Wagner and Weitzman help readers understand that we need to think about climate change in the same way that we think about insurance--as a risk management problem, only here on a global scale.

Demonstrating that climate change can and should be dealt with--and what could happen if we don't do so--Climate Shock tackles the defining environmental and public policy issue of our time.

(http://www.amazon.com/Climate-Shock-Economic-Consequences-Hotter/dp/0691159475/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1425229998&sr=8-1&keywords=Martin+Weitzman)

headradio

02-22

I don’t know where the author want to go with his narratives, and it reads like the only main message I got from this book about economic shock of climate change: we don’t know how much the shock will cost, which is understandable because it does not have the measurable dependent variable exist. Overall, this is more of an economics advocacy book

豌豆

02-17

随便看了一下主旨，总觉得环境问题就是个老生常谈，二氧化碳排放你我也做不了个什么，说起来啥都懂做起来没效果就是这样。不过本书确实也没站在制高点吧啦吧啦，倒也有些有用之处，例如控制全球二氧化碳的方式（我以前并没有听说过），全书最深刻的观点就是控制二氧化碳是未知后果的举措，没有对错也不能怪谁谁，大家都在摸石头过河，只不过重视程度不同会有本质的差别。对于个人菜市场的宣传画册就够了，剩下就是国家层面的努力了，本书茶余饭后可当成科普读物，看过也记不住，记住也没啥用，给个三星～啦啦啦

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