Climate change presents an enormous global risk, not in an improbable 1-in-a-million case, but rather in the most likely scenario. From a risk management perspective, our choice could not be clearer. We should be taking serious steps to reduce our impact on the climate via fossil fuel consumption and associated greenhouse gas emissions. But we’re not. This is in large part due to a lack of public comprehension of the magnitude of the risk we face; a perception problem that social scientists are trying to determine how to overcome. At the moment, climate change looks like humanity’s greatest-ever risk management failure. Hopefully we’ll remedy that failure before we commit ourselves to catastrophic climate consequences that we’re unprepared to face. grist.org/climate-energy/is-climate-change-humanitys-greatest-ever-risk-management-failure/?utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&sub_email=msthomas5%40msn
Posted on: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 02:51:59 +0000
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