In the book, you say that climate change isn't a problem. You suggest that for those people, instead of reading this book, they should start an insurance company selling flood and storm insurance. In fact, that's what the insurers did. What has happened in the states at least, is that a many of the insurers ah said, we're out of town once they saw that the risks a. They couldn't price in the risk of sea level risea storm insurance att the in the vulnerable areas.
Author and environmental journalist Eugene Linden's new book, Fire and Flood: A People’s History of Climate Change from 1979 to the Present, lays out how successive US governments managed to delay action on climate change when they should have been raising the alarm. It also looks at why the climate emergency will have a big impact on the global economy and why China and India, which could have taken a lead on renewables, double downed on coal to fuel their industrialisation in the 1990s. Our host for the podcast is the economist and broadcaster Linda Yueh.
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