IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/rfa/aefjnl/v2y2015i3p92-101.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Coping With Global Warming

Author

Listed:
  • Jan-Erik Lane

Abstract

The process of globalization that has framed developments in the societies on Planet Earth the last decades will be supplanted by the climate change process, which no country can evade. It amounts to a set of giant forces shaping the environment, the economies and the politics of the world. It is somehow believed that the process of change can be controlled by halting the increase in greenhouse gases so that average global temperature would only augment by 2 degrees. This is a dire illusion, fed by the promises of many governments to do something about the energy emissions ¨C in the future! Global warming is now, driven by the most powerful forces, namely the life style of mankind, resulting in an ever larger decline in environmental capital. There is much talk about creating economic development that is carbon neutral, but the global truth is that emission of greenhouse gases just keeps going up. China has promised to halt emission growth by 2030 ¨C too late! Global coordination fails completely.

Suggested Citation

  • Jan-Erik Lane, 2015. "Coping With Global Warming," Applied Economics and Finance, Redfame publishing, vol. 2(3), pages 92-101, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:rfa:aefjnl:v:2:y:2015:i:3:p:92-101
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://redfame.com/journal/index.php/aef/article/view/937/885
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: http://redfame.com/journal/index.php/aef/article/view/937
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    global warming as social change; resilience; energy and emissions; environmental refugees; ecological damages; life style;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:rfa:aefjnl:v:2:y:2015:i:3:p:92-101. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Redfame publishing (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/cepflch.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.