The Hot Topic: What We Can Do About Global Warming
The Hot Topic: What We Can Do About Global Warming – Review
David King is reported to have reportedly said that unless we stop manmade global warming, by 2100 the only habitable continent will be Antarctica. Need I say further? This book appears to be full of alarmist claims about what might happen if we do nothing and suspicious proposals about what we should do. The thing is that the nation of the World are not doing nothing about climate change and nor will they. But hopefully they will think of more innovative solutions to the problem than the same old same previous injunctions to reduce emissions drastically in the next 20 years that we hear from King and Walker. Such reductions would likely have dramatic harmful consequences — especially for the poor. So it is imperative that we begin incorrectly thinking about smarter solutions, such as slashing barriers to adaptation. If catastrophe is a genuine possibility, then maybe we should be currently looking more closely at geoengineering? Meanwhile, a clever approach to incentivising greatly reducing carbon emissions would include completely improving the incentives to R&D, while probably introducing minimal level — and revenue neutral — carbon taxes.