Simon Sharpe, "Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
New Books in Economics
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The Challenge of Overcoming Misconceptions About Climate Change
The challenge of trying to break us from the sort of path development thinking that we've undertaken is even greater it seems than climate change itself. That was the challenge that I thought was the most fascinating that you're posing. And there's an analogy invisible infrastructure of ideas and institutions. This has a huge influence on what we think and what we do. If we get some of these things right if we have a better understanding of the problem itself and what we can do about it, we can actually make much faster progress for the same level of political wealth,. It's a question of directing those resources more effectively than we currently are.
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