On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 2:19 PM, John Gorman <[email protected]> wrote:
The Nobel Laureate Thomas Schelling in his lecture to the World Bank "What > Development Economists Need to Know About Climate Change." said that this > was not a case where we should apply conventional cost benefit analysis. The > bad was just so bad that we had to solve it. I agree. > While this particular argument of his is sound, I wouldn't pass around speeches of Thomas Schilling. I've attended one of his talks (also World Bank sponsored) and am familiar with his past work. He believes that climate change wouldn't affect rich nations like the US much because people there live indoors "in climate controlled atmosphere" and agriculture makes hardly any contribution to GDP. It's the developing world that needs to worry about climate change and what's his advice? The best way for developing countries to adapt is to continue the consumption driven economic growth pathways and get rich! Yes, he's not a scientist but he's been a member of NAS for two decades and was one of the first people recruited in early 80s to study climate change so he really has no excuse for being so divorced with science. Manu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en.
