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“The First Step Toward Saving the Planet Is Ignoring the Economists”
So writes Andrew Dessler, a climate scientist and professor at Texas A&M University. In a March 2022 article for Rolling Stone, he argues that “we don’t know how expensive the climate crisis will be, which means cost-benefit analyses… are pointless.”
He further underscores the inherent biases in such cost-benefit analyses, writing, “Perhaps you work for a libertarian think tank or a fossil fuel producer. Your job is literally to use the tools of economics to conclude that we don’t need any government intervention to address climate change.”
On Monday, August 15, Dessler will take the Soho Forum’s debate stage to defend the resolution: Climate science compels us to make large and rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
Taking the negative: Steven Koonin, former Undersecretary for Science in the Obama Administration, and author of Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why it Matters (2021).
You won’t want to miss it.
Tickets to the live event, reception, and livestream are all available at the link below:
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