SUNSTEIN ARTICLE ON U.S. APPROACHES TO TERRORISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Check out Cass Sunstein's new paper on SSRN, On the Divergent American Reactions to Terrorism and Climate Change, here. Here are the first few sentences of the abstract:

Two of the most important sources of catastrophic risk are terrorism and climate change. The United States has responded aggressively to the risk of terrorism while doing very little about the risk of climate change. For the United States alone, the cost of the Iraq war is now in excess of the anticipated cost of the Kyoto Protocol. The divergence presents a puzzle; it also raises more general questions about both risk perception and the public demand for legislation.