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Why climate change solutions remain elusive
Published Sept 25, 2019Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Paul Ferraro, an expert in behavioral economics and the design and estimation of impacts of environmental programs, has spent a lot of time thinking about climate change. And he's uncovered a major barrier to combating the rise in global temperatures: the human psyche. "The problem is that what we need to achieve is so daunting and taxes our resources so much that we end up with a situation that's much, much worse than if we had focused our efforts," Ferraro says.
