PUBLIC POLICY AND CLIMATE CHANGE: Politics, Philosophy and Economics

Among the 'wicked problems' facing policymakers and voters today, the threat of catastrophic climate change, also called global heating, is so challenging that it was labelled as 'super-wicked'. The scientific evidence is clear-cut, and most of the technologies needed to stabilize the global climate are well understood. But the policy response has been entirely inadequate.

To understand the difficulties, we must draw on our understanding of politics, philosophy and economics, grouped togethe...