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The More Climate Skeptics There Are, the Fewer Climate Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

According to an October 2016 Pew poll , only about half of Americans believe that climate change is due to human activity. A drug company must incur a large fixed cost to do the basic research, so it has strong incentives to predict what the demand for the drug will be if its research succeeds.