TRANSCRIPT Environmental Insights Guest: Record Date: Posting Date: - Richard Zeckhauser:

So, even if you didn't want to worry about it, as a political actor, as the president of the United States has to be and our climate envoy has to be and the UN has to be, you have to pay serious attention to it. [...] I am of course referring to my Harvard colleague and friend Richard Zeckhauser, the Frank Ramsey professor of political economy at the Harvard Kennedy School and fellow of the American Economic Association, The Econometrics Society, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Association of Public Policy And Management, and the Society for Benefit Cost Analysis. [...] So, even if you didn't want to worry about it, as a political actor, as the president of the United States has to be and our climate envoy has to be, and the UN has to be, you have to pay serious attention to it. [...] And one of the things that I and many other people worry about is that given climate change, there are already massive migrations from the south to the north, and those are very uncomfortable for the people in both places – the people who have to do the migration, which is frequently very dangerous and expensive, the people who are still trapped in the old place because they don't have enough reso. [...] And I want to thank you because since you came to the Kennedy School, you have been a Johnny Appleseed of environmental concern, starting with dozens and then hundreds and now thousands of people who have followed the environmental efforts of Rob Stavins in making this important for people at Harvard and people in the nation at large and across the world.