Description
| Product ID: | 9781541647473 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | False Alarm |
| Subtitle: | How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet |
| Authors: | Author: Bjorn Lomborg |
| Page Count: | 336 |
| Subjects: | Political science and theory, Political science & theory, Political ideologies and movements, Centrist democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Environmental economics, Pollution and threats to the environment, Climate change, Political ideologies, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Environmental economics, Pollution & threats to the environment, Climate change |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating "A very important and superbly argued book" (Matt Ridley) by bestselling "skeptical environmentalist" argues that panic over climate change is causing more harm than good. An “important” (Times UK) and “meticulously researched” (Forbes) book by the “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. |
| Imprint Name: | Basic Books |
| Publisher Name: | Basic Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-10-28 |
