Lora Reed asked this question about The New Wilderness:
The description of this book sounds like it is coming from an environmental background not a climate change background. Is this book about the affects of climate change or the affects of poor environmental policies?
Johnathan Reid This question is hard to answer because of how it's framed. The two can't be separated. Anthropogenic climate change is one of the consequences of poo…moreThis question is hard to answer because of how it's framed. The two can't be separated. Anthropogenic climate change is one of the consequences of poor atmospheric environment policies over the last 150 years. And of course climate changes from any cause lead to environmental changes. Putting it the other way round : If we'd always had good environmental policies, we wouldn't now be trying to deal with anthropogenic climate change.(less)
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