Climate crisis is ‘battering our economy’ and driving inflation, new book says

A woman walks under an orange smoke-filled sky in San Francisco. Photograph: Brittany Hosea-Small/AFP/Getty Images

Forget Ukraine, coronavirus, corporate greed and “supply chain issues”, when it comes to inflation the climate crisis is the real, lasting, worry, according to a new book, and one that’s only likely to get worse.

Climatenomics, by former White House reporter and director of Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2) Bob Keefe, is a narrative account of how the climate crisis is fundamentally altering not just the US but global economies.