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CLIMATE COMMON SENSE: 2/4: Adapt and Be Adept: Market Responses to Climate Change by Terry Anderson (Editor)

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🗓️ 4 August 2024

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CLIMATE COMMON SENSE: 2/4: Adapt and Be Adept: Market Responses to Climate Change by Terry Anderson (Editor)

https://www.amazon.com/Adapt-Be-Adept-Responses-Climate/dp/0817924558/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1618603521&refinements=p_27%3ATerry+Anderson&s=books&sr=1-1

How can markets help us adapt to the challenges of climate change? The editor Terry L. Anderson brings together this collection of essays featuring the work of nine leading policy analysts, who argue that market forces are just as important as government regulation in shaping climate policy—and should be at the heart of our response to helping societies adapt to climate change.

Anderson notes in his introduction that most current climate policies such as the Paris Agreement require hard-to-enforce collective action and focus on reducing or mitigating greenhouse gases rather than adapting to their negative effects. Adaptive actions can typically deliver much more, faster and more cheaply than any realistic climate policy. The authors tackle a range of issues: the hidden costs of renewable energy sources, the political obstacles surrounding climate change policy, insurance and financial instruments for pricing risk of exposure to the effects of climate change, and more

Terry Anderson @HooverInst
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/547525-a-better-approach-to-climate-change-for-states
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/548667-climate-change-to-adapt-is-to-be-human


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0:00.0

I'm John Batch and Terry Anderson the author is here. His new edited book is

0:10.5

adapt and be adept market responses to climate change. Without the market you

0:16.6

have people who live very carefully on the land. There's subsistence, there's an elaborate definition of subsistence, but in any

0:26.1

event what it means is that you deal with your environment effectively, you keep heat and

0:32.0

food and your children prosper.

0:35.0

There is an Alaska Native Village chain throughout Alaska the United States

0:41.0

called A and V in this book. A very excellent piece by a

0:46.6

anthropologist who spent time with the Alaska Native villages and what I

0:50.9

learn is that there are a series of laws that have been passed since 1971 and 1981 in the late 20th century

0:57.0

that have not permitted or inadvertently left out participation by the people who live near the wildlife and the sustainability

1:09.2

of the Alaska Native villages.

1:11.6

And the lesson I take from this Terry and I'm submitting

1:13.7

it to you the editor

1:15.1

lesson I take this

1:16.4

unless the consumers or the

1:20.1

or the villagers or the people who live on the land and live inside the adaptation unless they participate

1:26.4

none of your solutions are going to work. Is that the lesson you wanted me to learn from this chapter?

1:32.4

Very much. that the lesson you wanted me to learn from this chapter?

1:46.8

Very much. They they have known how to adapt for eons and because of all the things you just described have no ability to really adapt. They can't follow the caraboo herds, they can't move along the rivers to different fishing zones. And that inability to adapt is just a major

1:59.8

part of what it stands in the way of adaptation to climate change.

2:05.8

Let me back even further up to Native Americans in continental United,

2:11.6

what is now the continental United States.

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