What Should We Do About Global Warming? Weighing the Pros and Cons

Authors

Murray L. Weidenbaum, Washington University in St Louis

Files

Publication Date

8-1-1997

Series Information

Policy Brief 184

Publisher

Center for the Study of American Business (CSAB), Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130

Description

The most controversial environmental issue facing the country today is how to respond to the pressure to fight global warming by substantially reducing emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the leading greenhouse gas. The United States has reached a point where it is personally and professionally dangerous, if not foolhardy, to criticize in any way any proposal to "do more for the environment." Nevertheless, in advance of the massive UN Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting in Kyoto, Japan in December 1997, this paper suggests that we should examine the seriousness of the problem and the feasibility of the suggested solution.

Keywords

UNFCCC, Climate Change, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gases, Environmental Policy

Disciplines

Economics | Public Policy

Comments

The Center for the Study of American Business (CSAB), 1975-2001, is the predecessor of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis. Permanent URL: http://dx.doi/org/10.7936/K7N877Z0

DOI

doi:10.7936/K7N877Z0

Recommended Citation

Weidenbaum, Murray L., "What Should We Do About Global Warming? Weighing the Pros and Cons", Policy Brief 184, 1997, doi:10.7936/K7N877Z0.
Murray Weidenbaum Publications, https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/mlw_papers/147.