Fighting global warming is progressing slowly, very slowly. The predicament is the daunting economic implications. The pace of action is sluggish, not because the threat of global warming is misunderstood or underestimated, but because the astronomical cost of decarbonizing the economy would affect livelihoods, businesses, trade, jobs, incomes and above all: the inescapable inequality.
This book will explain with simple words what is at stake, what are the contingencies, what are the technical and economic shackles behind the unrelenting rise of CO2 emissions, and the current plan’s economic viability to contain global warming.
Vincent Lannoye was born in the US and grew up in Belgium in an industrial family, which sparked his curiosity to analyze and critique economics and politics. An engineer with an MBA from Edhec France, today he works in high-tech in Silicon Valley.
His past, his passion for politics, economics, and the challenge of limiting global warming, all have inspired him to write about economics.