Grist: Economics has long been nicknamed the dismal science, and climate economics can really pile on the gloom and doom. Basically, when individuals act rationally and self-interestedly, in an unrestrained market economy, we pollute the planet to the gills and poor people bear the brunt of the ill effects. Case in point: Earth, right now.
Yoram Bauman, the worlds first and only stand-up economist, likes to inject some lolz into grim climate economics (kind of like Grist). He`s a climate hawk, policy...