Proposals include imposing taxes on fuels in proportion to their carbon dioxide content, emissions trading, and aggressive policy towards the development of clean technologies. Our economic system and our climate system are both self-stabilizing. As our culture has found though, combining the two in one system results in chaos. The gap has not yet been bridged between the logic of economic gain and the logic of environmental preservation, and at this point we would be hard pressed to abandon one or the other. The only viable solution is to take steps toward a policy that accounts for both.
Agriculture is an area of the economy that is very vulnerable to climate change.
In the global marketplace, many countries have begun importing some part of the agriculture they need. But if climate change significantly disturbs agriculture, all countries will feel the effect, whether or not their GDP is dependent on agriculture. An even greater concern is the policy of congregating agriculture in certain global regions. With this lack of diversity, small climate changes in certain areas could have catastrophic consequences for the rest of the world. We have to wonder if the policy of clustering agriculture will become more pronounced in the future.