But will the planet notice? :how smart economics can save the world
Material type: TextPublication details: New York Hill and Wang 2011Description: 258p. illISBN: 9780809032730Subject(s): Environmental policy | Conservation of natural resources | Green movement Environmental conservation Conservation of natural resources--Citizen participationDDC classification: 333.72 Summary: You are one of seven billion people on Earth. Whatever you or I do personally—eat tofu in a Hummer or hamburgers in a Prius—the planet doesn't notice. In our confrontation with climate change, species preservation, and a planet going off the cliff, it is what several billion people do that makes a difference. The solution? It isn't science, politics, or activism. It's smarter economics. The hope of mankind, and indeed of every living thing on the planet, is now in the hands of the dismal science. Fortunately, we've been there before. Economists helped crack the acid rain problem in the 1990's (admittedly with a strong assist from a phalanx of lawyers and activists). Economists have helped get lead out of our gas, and they can explain why lobsters haven't disappeared off the coast of New England but tuna is on the verge of extinction. More disquietingly, they can take the lessons of the financial crisis and model with greater accuracy than anyone else the likelihood of environmental catastrophe, and they can help save us from global warming, if only we let them.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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333.72 DIX/S Soil and water conservation: productivity and environmental protection | 333.72 HAY/C Companion to environmental thought | 333.72 MAH/S Sustainable environment and carbon balance management | 333.72 WAG/B But will the planet notice? :how smart economics can save the world | 333.72014 PEZ/E Environmental communication and the public sphere | 333.72092 SUN/C Conflicts of interest : my journey through India's green movement | 333.720954 SUB/N Natural resources conservation management and health care |
You are one of seven billion people on Earth. Whatever you or I do personally—eat tofu in a Hummer or hamburgers in a Prius—the planet doesn't notice. In our confrontation with climate change, species preservation, and a planet going off the cliff, it is what several billion people do that makes a difference. The solution? It isn't science, politics, or activism. It's smarter economics.
The hope of mankind, and indeed of every living thing on the planet, is now in the hands of the dismal science. Fortunately, we've been there before. Economists helped crack the acid rain problem in the 1990's (admittedly with a strong assist from a phalanx of lawyers and activists). Economists have helped get lead out of our gas, and they can explain why lobsters haven't disappeared off the coast of New England but tuna is on the verge of extinction. More disquietingly, they can take the lessons of the financial crisis and model with greater accuracy than anyone else the likelihood of environmental catastrophe, and they can help save us from global warming, if only we let them.
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