Reply to Bhowmik et al.: Democratic climate action and studying extreme climate risks are not in tension

Affiliations

• ¹ Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1SB, United Kingdom.
• ² Darwin College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9EU, United Kingdom.
• ³ School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
• ⁴ Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, United Kingdom.
• ⁵ Center for Health and the Global Environment, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195.
• ⁶ Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 0DJ, United Kingdom.
• ⁷ Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-4910.
• ⁸ Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM 87501.
• ⁹ Cluster of Excellence ROOTS, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, 24118 Kiel, Germany.
• ¹⁰ Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany.
• ¹¹ Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Wageningen, 6708PB Wageningen, The Netherlands.
• ¹² Earth System Science Department, Tsinghua University, 100190 Beijing, China.
• ¹³ Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
• ¹⁴ Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QE, United Kingdom.