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Public support for climate action will be driven in one of two ways: by understanding the risk in advance or in experiencing the damage when the possibility of an effective response is much reduced. Increased effort is needed to convince the public of the cost of delay.
This essay first appeared as https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/474994-there-is-no-plan-b-on-climate-change?rnd=1576622411.
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Yohe, G., Jacoby, H., Richels, R., Santer, B. (2023). Essay 5. There Is No Plan B on Climate Change. In: Responding to the Climate Threat . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96372-9_5
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