Stopping climate change will pump trillions into the economy | David Wallace-Wells

- Climate change is no longer a financial problem, just a political one. - Mitigating climate change by decarbonizing our economy would add trillions of dollars in new investments. - Public attitudes toward climate change have shifted steadily in favor of action. Now it's up to elected leaders. David Wallace-Wells is a national fellow at the New America foundation and a columnist and deputy editor at New York magazine. He was previously the deputy editor of The Paris Review. He lives in New York City. His latest book is The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (https://goo.gl/ih35YX) Read more at BigThink.com: http://bit.ly/2IRlE7E Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: http://bit.ly/1qJMX5g Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink