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Five Times Faster
Book

Five Times Faster

Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change

Cambridge UP, 2023 plus...


Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Analytical
  • Applicable
  • Visionary

Recommendation

Despite mass protests, government initiatives, and global accords, people keep pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and exacerbating global warming. Simon Sharpe, senior fellow at the World Resources Institute, maintains that to contain climate change, nations must make sure global temperatures do not increase beyond 1.5oC [2.7°F]. Emissions must drop dramatically and quickly. Sharpe asserts that to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, human thinking – and the world’s economies – must change.

Take-Aways

  • Leaders and policymakers underestimate the climate change crisis.
  • Politicians, policymakers, scientists, and citizens must invest in research on climate change’s worst impacts.
  • Earth’s “feedbacks, tipping points, and irreversibility” amplify climate change. 

About the Author

Simon Sharpe, Director of Economics for the UN Climate Champions Team, is a senior fellow at the World Resources Institute.