Can We Change Everything? The Politics and Economics of Climate Change

• Author: Daniel J. Fiorino
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/puar.12668
• Published date: 01 November 2016
• Date: 01 November 2016

970 Public Administration Review • November | December 2016

Daniel J. Fiorino is founding director

of the Center for Environmental Policy

and distinguished executive in residence

in the School of Public Affairs at American

University. He is author of

The New

Environmental Regulation

, which won the

2007 Brownlow Award of the National

Academy of Public Administration, and

coauthor (with James Meadowcroft) of

the forthcoming

Conceptual Innovation in

Environmental Policy

. He is a Fellow of the

National Academy of Public Administration

and served for three decades with the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency.

E-mail : dfiorino@american.edu

Danny L. Balfour and Stephanie P. Newbold , Editors

Daniel J. Fiorino

American University

Can We Change Everything?

The Politics and Economics of Climate Change

Naomi Klein ,  is Changes Everything: Capitalism

vs. the Climate (New York: Simon & Schuster,

2014). 576 pp. $10.99 (paper), ISBN:

9781451697391 .

Gernot Wagner and Martin L. Weitzman , Climate Shock:

 e Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet

(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015).

264 pp. $13.93 (paper), ISBN: 9780691159478 .

E vidence is steadily accumulating that climate

change poses global challenges and threats

that are unprecedented. Even assuming most

likely rather than worst case outcomes, it is clear

that, by the end of this century, the world will

confront rising seas, extreme weather, new patterns

of disease, droughts, coastal flooding, species and

habitat loss, and other phenomena that will lead to

a fundamentally different planet. The biggest losers