THE PUBLICATION OF the Stern Review in October 2006, and the huge global interest in and media coverage of it that followed have provided a once-in-a-decade opportunity to address the climate change issue in particular and environmental problems more generally. Each of the last five decades has provided similar opportunities: Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring launched the modern environmental movement in the 1960s; in the 1970s Limits to Growth drew attention to the depletion of non-renewable resources; the 1980s saw the publication of the Brundtland Report, Our ...
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