What Paul Krugman thinks about climate change
Trade economist, Nobel laureate in 2008 for his work on economic geography, professor emeritus at Princeton and the CUNY Graduate Center, and a New York Times columnist from 1999 to 2024. Now writes on Substack.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Paul Krugman has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingWhat has been seen of climate change so far is only a foretaste of worse disasters to come.
Their wordsAnd everything we know about climate change suggests that what we’ve seen so far is just a foretaste of the disasters to come.
↗The MAGA Plot(s) to Destroy Humanitypaulkrugman.substack.com
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Their wordsClimate denial, we know from decades of experience, is fueled by an unholy trinity of financial interest (fossil fuel companies determined to keep their profits flowing), ideology (conservatives hostile to any form of regulation) and psychological insecurity (real men burn stuff.)
↗The MAGA Plot(s) to Destroy Humanitypaulkrugman.substack.com
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