Climate change and the tragedy of the commons
by The Daily Eye Team April 26 2014, 11:50 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 31 secsScientists have for long warned of the costs that a warmer planet would impose on the living standards of many, or even the survival of some. Last week witnessed another such warning, this time from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that released the last of a series of working group reports assessing the impact of carbon emissions on the earth?s climate. Following the previous report that observed that ?the effects of climate change are already occurring on all continents?, the current one has focused mainly on the prospect of mitigating the effects of climate change already underway