By Tom Rand
ISBN-10: 177041181X
ISBN-13: 9781770411814
Waking the Frog is as a lot approximately strategies because it is an account of our current paralysis. Our ingenuity, know-how, capital, and coverage can interact to show down the warmth and even as let the most important fiscal chance of the twenty first century.
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By the late 1980s, these predictive models were delivering some very bad news. The climate might not just warm incrementally with added carbon dioxide, but it could shift very abruptly to a new, and very probably hostile, equilibrium. Those early models, clunky as they were, were on the right track. Worse, many predictions — such as the melting of the Arctic sea ice — are happening much faster than originally thought. It all seemed to come to a head in the late eighties. My hometown of Toronto hosted the first major intergovernmental conference on climate disruption in 1988 — coincidentally, the hottest year ever recorded in the 130-year history of global temperature record-keeping.
New innovations in energy storage and production emerge constantly, as do innovative financial tools and means of public engagement. ” I believe this is the most fundamental economic and political challenge of the twenty-first century. I hope we can, of course, but hope is a poor cousin to deep understanding of the causes of our paralysis. We must first take the world as it is before we can hope to change it. The great existential philosophers of the twentieth century appreciated the degree of freedom we have to make change and the depth to which that change may go.
Another way of putting it: without measuring any benefits, it’ll cost us a coffee and donut per person per week. Three years of unrealized growth over the next half-century — that is the sacrifice our political and economic elite tell us we are unwilling to pay. Instead of having the facts laid out in language we can understand and that enables us to make informed choices at the ballot box, we are warned by our leaders of near-apocalyptic ruin. Of course we’re not voting for strong solutions — we’re told we can’t do it!
Waking the Frog: Solutions for Our Climate Change Paralysis by Tom Rand
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