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False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet

By Bjorn Lomborg

Book information

Publisher
Basic Books
Year
2021
ISBN
1541647475, 9781541647473
LCC
QC903
Google Books ID
7VAnzgEACAAJ
Open Library ID
OL32387462M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (16361085 bytes)
Edition
Updated
Pages
340\340
Library
archive.org
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2024-12-13 04:58:52

Description

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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