Contrast the costs and benefits of combating global climate change in the developing world with the costs and benefits in the industrialized countries.

How do you feel about a move toward more localized economies as a solution to the problem of climate change that McKibben discusses in the Introduction, Ch. 3, and Afterword sections? Might such a move address any of the social or economic ills that you see in the news? What is the evidence of a move in that direction in your hometown? (For example, a farmers market, a grocery co-op, encouragement of bike commuting/bike sharing, etc.). How is such localization being embraced in your hometown? What else is possible?

explain which policies should be adopted by countries to limit the increase of CO2

Technological innovations shift the production possibility curve. Which types of technologies should a country promote? Should “clean” technologies be promoted over other technologies? Why or why not?