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But Will the Planet Notice?: How Smart Economics Can Save the World Paperback - 2012

by Gernot Wagner


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An environmental economist argues for market-based incentives and initiatives to guide our response to the growing climate change crisis

You 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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  • Title But Will the Planet Notice?: How Smart Economics Can Save the World
  • Author Gernot Wagner
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl, N Y
  • Date 2012-08-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780809032730 / 0809032732
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 5.7 x 0.8 in (21.84 x 14.48 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Dewey Decimal Code 333.72

About the author

Gernot Wagner is an economist at the Environmental Defense Fund. He teaches at Columbia and graduated from both Harvard and Stanford. He doesn't eat meat, doesn't drive, and knows full well the futility of his personal choices.

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