Climategate

摘要

The eminent economist Ross Garnaut described climate change as a wicked problem, characterized by inherent complexity and uncertainty. It is marked by disputes over the timing and severity of long-term trends; entails immediate costs to reduce later problems; as well as disputes over the best ways to address it. It is not contained in any one jurisdiction, and is ripe for arguments over who should bear the costs and responsibilities (Head 2008). Peter Dryzek puts it more starkly:The stakes are massive, the risks and uncertainties severe, the economics controversial, the science besieged, the politics bitter and complicated, the psychology puzzling, the impacts devastating, the interactions with other environmental and non-environmental issues running in many directions. The social problem-solving mechanisms we currently possess were not designed, and have not evolved to cope with anything like an interlinked set of severity, scale and complexity.