51 Economics should continue strengthening the ongoing debate pertaining to global climate change, particularly, given the persistent scientific uncertainties in terms of the range and severity of potential outcomes that test the resilience of life on Earth. Part of the challenge on how economics may further inform or shape that debate stems from the type of discourses and disagreements surrounding climate destabilization, which often center on some die-hard presuppositions and deterministic evidence sought after by the hard sciences.1 Given certain policy implications crafted on both sides of the scientifically-deterministic aisle, i.e.: hard and not-so-hard sciences, it may seem even harder to introduce serious non-deterministic and non-nihilistic attitudes into the climate destabilization debate.2 1 The Economist. (2010) “Briefing the Science of Climate Change: The Clouds of Unknowing”, March 20th- 26th, pp. 83 – 86 2 It would be exceedingly ambitious and difficult to elaborate a comprehensive list of the latest and serious articles and books that address global climate change from numerous fields, amongst others: economics, environmental studies, ethics, journalism, politics, and philosophy. I shall list a few relatively recent pieces that have left deep impressions in my thoughts and interests: Daly, H. (1992) “Elements of Environmental Macroeconomics”, chapter 3 in R. Costanza, ed., Ecological Economics: The Science and Management of Sustainability. New York, ny: Columbia University Press; Daly, H. and J. Cobb (1989) For the Common Good. Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future. Boston, ma: Beacon Press; Kolbert, E. (2009) Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change. New York, Ny: Bloomsbury; Orr, D. (2009) Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse. New York, ny: Oxford University Press; Shiva, V. (2008) Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in a Time of Crisis. Cambridge, ma: South End Press. Fotografía: Imageafter
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