From a column by John Abraham and Dana Nuccitelli in The Guardian:
We buy insurance to protect our investments in homes and cars … Most purchase health insurance. We don’t like taking the chance – however remote – that we could be left unprepared in the event that something bad happens to our homes, cars, or health…
Yet we don’t share that aversion to the risks posed by human-caused climate change. …
Climate change presents an enormous global risk, not in an improbable one-in-a-million case, but rather in the most likely scenario. From a risk management perspective, our choice could not be clearer. We should be taking serious steps to reduce our impact on the climate via fossil fuel consumption and associated greenhouse gas emissions.
But we’re not. This is in large part due to a lack of public comprehension of the magnitude of the risk we face … At the moment, climate change looks like humanity’s greatest-ever risk management failure.
