Last fall, the United Kingdom issued a major government report on global climate change directed by Sir Nicholas Stern, a top-flight economist. The Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change amounts to a call to action: it argues that huge future costs of global warming can be avoided by incurring relatively modest cost today.
帕洛阿尔托—去年秋天，英国发布了一份在一流经济学家尼古拉斯·斯特恩爵士指导下出台的有关全球气候变化的重要政府报告即《斯特恩气候变化经济评价》。这份报告呼吁人们采取行动，它认为未来我们将为全球变暖所付出的巨大代价可以通过今天逐步付出的相对较低的代价得以避免。