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The Midas Effect

The Midas Effect: A Critique of Climate Change Economics,”, (coauthored with Brett Clark and Richard York, Foster listed first), Development and Change, vol. 40, no. 6 (November 2009), pp. 1085-96. DOI10.1111/j.1467-7660.2009.01613.x.

James Hansen, a leading US climatologist and director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, warns that global climate change today constitutes a ‘planetary emergency’. Existing trends threaten to set in mo- tion irreversible climate transformations, proceeding ‘mostly under their own momentum’, thereby fundamentally transforming the conditions of life on earth.

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