GEOL 150Lg Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Snowy Hydro, American Petroleum Institute, American Enterprise Institute
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The industrial stakeholders have much more money. The american enterprise insitute: posit: trillions of dollars are at stake in world markets and thousands of jobs will be lost if legislaion undermines economic compeiion. Pew research insitute: posit: corporate and industrial stake-holders fail to consider the economic cost of inacion. If projected climate changes occur the impacts will be far worse on the economies of the world. Both acknowledge there is signiicant uncertainty about climate change. Industrial and corporate stakeholders argue to safeguard economies and manage risks by delaying poliical acion unil there is greater certainty. Environmental stakeholders argue there is enough compelling evidence to jusify immediate acion to lower the risks. The best scienists publish their rigorously tested and evaluated scieniic results in open journals and rouinely present their results at public conferences and give sworn tesimony in front of congress.
