TY - BOOK ID - 101620573 TI - Alligators in the Arctic and how to avoid them : science, economics and the challenge of catastrophic climate change PY - 2022 SN - 1009029584 131651627X 1009034227 1009034421 PB - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Climatic changes KW - Fossil fuels KW - Carbon dioxide mitigation. KW - Economic aspects. KW - Environmental aspects. KW - Pollution prevention KW - Atmospheric carbon dioxide mitigation KW - Carbon dioxide capture KW - Mitigation of carbon dioxide KW - Fuel KW - Energy minerals KW - Fossil energy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101620573 AB - Climate change is a matter of extreme urgency. Integrating science and economics, this book demonstrates the need for measures to put a strict lid on cumulative carbon emissions and shows how to implement them. Using the carbon budget framework, it reveals the shortcomings of current policies and the debates around them, such as the popular enthusiasm for individual solutions and the fruitless search for 'optimal' regulation by economists and other specialists. On the political front, it explains why business opposition to the policies we need goes well beyond the fossil fuel industry, requiring a more radical rebalancing of power. This wide-ranging study goes against the most prevalent approaches in mainstream economics, which argue that we can tackle climate change while causing minimal disruption to the global economy. The author argues that this view is not only impossible, but also dangerously complacent. ER -