ABSTRACT
Anthropocenic climate change currently occupies a dominant position in national politics as well as in international affairs. Governments have pledged enormous fiscal resources to mitigate climate change while simultaneously struggling to adapt to its impact on the earth’s physical environment. At the same time, the issue of climate change has brought about changes in the climate of political debate, which now often tends towards the hysterical and apocalyptic. While climate change activists demand radical and urgent changes in economic priorities, governments have been responding with ever more ambitious policy promises that stretch the limits of credulity. This dynamic has produced its own form of corruption, warping the economics and the politics of public policy by putting massive resources at the disposal of interests that have little chance – and in some instances no intention – of addressing the crisis.
