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The second reason is that the people who are most concerned about climate change are people who are least trusted.

targeted audiences—scientists, policymakers, environmental advocates, the media, and concerned citizens—who can and will take action to protect the plants and animals that enrich our world, the ecosystems we need to survive, the water we drink, and the air we breathe.

autonomous adaptation as “adaptation that does not constitute a conscious response

Given that forecasts are imperfect, agents are constrained in many ways, and markets are often distorted – particularly in the areas that matter most for the effects of climate change such as water, food, energy, and health

INTRODUCTION

adaptation can also be driven by changes in relative prices, which lead to what can be defined as market-driven adaptation.

PARADIGMS

agreement: if we think we are emitting excessive amounts of greenhouse gases (or any other pollutant), then we should make sure decision makers face costs that give them the correct incentives to cut back.

David Keith, a professor of applied physics at Harvard, has been described as “perhaps the foremost proponent of geoengineering,” a characterization that he bristles at. “I’m a proponent of reality,” he wrote in a letter to the editor of The New York Times in 2015. Keith founded the university’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program in 2017, and he