Refraining the problem of climate change: from zero sum game to win-win solutions

摘要

Reframing the problem of climate change? The very first sentence of the book explains what is meant by this: 'We have a crisis. We don't mean the danger that human modifications of the earth's atmosphere will modify the earth's climate with grave consequences for people and the planet. Rather we see as the crisis the inadequacy of society's response to the threat' (p. 1). Society's response - that is what we normally call climate policy. No doubt, climate policy has largely failed. Put short, the authors think this failure to be the result of a mindset that treats climate change as a zero sum game.