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portada but will the planet notice? (in English)
Type
Physical Book
Language
Inglés
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
21.8 x 14.5 x 2.0 cm
Weight
0.32 kg.
ISBN
0809032732
ISBN13
9780809032730

but will the planet notice? (in English)

Gernot Wagner (Author) · Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl · Paperback

but will the planet notice? (in English) - Wagner, Gernot

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Synopsis "but will the planet notice? (in English)"

An environmental economist argues for market-based incentives and initiatives to guide our response to the growing climate change crisisYou 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. Praise for But Will the Planet Notice?If you like the idea of an environmentalist who works for one of the nation's largest environmental groups making a full-throated argument against the Endangered Species Act . . . then But Will the Planet Notice? is the book for you." --Dan Shapley, The Daily Green (blog)"Wagner's wry, witty prose brings rationality to an emotionally charged subject and urges us to take personal responsibility for the planet by demanding an economically sound solution to guiding market forces in the right direction, making it in our best interests to do the right thing." --Publishers Weekly

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