Richard Rosen, a senior fellow at the Tellus Institute in Boston, which charts
scenarios for human development in this century, took issue with some of the points made by Bill Gates in the Technology Review interview explored here earlier this week.
Not exact matches
It is
for this reason that the
scenario framework distinguishes between «pathways,» which describe one component (such as RCPs or SSPs) of integrated
scenarios, and «
scenarios» themselves, which combine pathways with other information such as emissions, climate projections and policy assumptions to produce integrated descriptions of future climate and
human system
development.
In the paper I examine the relative role of
human - caused climate change and
development for future damages under a wide range of
scenarios.
Michael # 29, the classical economists of the 18th and 19th centuries (Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus, John Stuart Mill) all wrestled with the problem of limits to growth and came up with
scenarios for the
human future ranging from extreme pessimism (Malthus) to optimism (John Stuart Mill's expectation that at a certain stage of economic
development human society would cease to grow in material scale and reach a «stationary state» where the emphasis would be on qualitative
human, social and cultural
development.