R. Jisung Park: Slow Burn

The hidden costs and opportunities of a warming planet

From the wildfires raging in Los Angeles to sea levels rising rapidly on Pacific islands, the destruction of mangroves and rainforests, and melting glaciers. It is easy to be overwhelmed by climate change, especially when it is framed as an ongoing crisis of enormous proportions: a looming global disaster. In Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World, economist R. Jisung Park urges us to focus not on doom-ridden hypothetical scenarios, but on the tangible impacts of climate change unfolding right now, in our daily lives.