Description: False Alarm : How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet, Paperback by Lomborg, Bjorn, ISBN 1541647475, ISBN-13 9781541647473, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK
“A very important and superbly argued book” (Matt Ridley) by the bestselling “skeptical environmentalist” argues that panic over climate change is causing more harm than good
Hurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Arctic. Politicians, activists, and the media espouse a common message: climate change is destroying the planet, and we must take drastic action immediately to stop it. Children panic about their future, and adults wonder if it is even ethical to bring new life into the world.
Enough, argues bestselling author Bjorn Lomborg. Climate change is real, but it’s not the apocalyptic threat that we’ve been told it is. Projections of Earth’s imminent demise are based on bad science and even worse economics. In panic, world leaders have committed to wildly expensive but largely ineffective policies that hamper growth and crowd out more pressing investments in human capital, from immunization to education.
A new epilogue details climate lessons from a year of global economic shutdown due to COVID-19, and from our increasingly costly but often very ineffective climate policies. False Alarm will convince you that everything you think about climate change is wrong. It points the way toward making the world a vastly better, if slightly warmer, place for us all.
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Book Title: False Alarm : How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts
Subject Area: Political Science
Item Height: 214 mm
Item Width: 134 mm
Author: Bjorn Lomborg
Publication Name: False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Basic Books
Subject: Economics, Geography & Geosciences, Geology, Politics
Publication Year: 2021
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 320 g
Number of Pages: 336 Pages