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

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

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

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

by Bjorn Lomborg

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781541647473
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 10/19/2021
Pages: 336
Sales rank: 95,342
Product dimensions: 8.10(w) x 5.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Bjorn Lomborg is the bestselling author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It. He is president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and a visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Time magazine named him one of the world’s one hundred most influential people, and his work appears regularly in top media across the world. He lives in Sweden.

Table of Contents

Section 1 Climate of Fear

Introduction 3

1 Why Do We Get Climate Change So Wrong? 19

2 Measuring the Future 38

Section 2 The Truth about Climate Change

3 A Fuller Story on Climate Change 49

4 Extreme Weather or Extreme Exaggeration? 60

5 What Is Global Warming Going to Cost Us? 77

Section 3 How Not To Fix Climate Change

6 You Can't Fix Climate Change 89

7 Why the Green Revolution Isn't Here Yet 101

8 Why the Paris Agreement Is Failing 111

9 Pick a Path: Which Future Is Best? 124

10 How Climate Policy Hurts the Poor 135

Section 4 How to Fix Climate Change

11 Carbon Tax: The Market-Based Solution 151

12 Innovation: What Is Needed Most 167

13 Adaptation: Simple but Effective 183

14 Geo engineering: A Backup Plan 195

15 Prosperity: The Other Climate Policy We Need 202

Section 5 Tackling Climate Change and All the World's Other Challenges

16 Conclusion: How to Make the World a Better Place 211

Epilogue 223

Acknowledgments 233

Notes 235

Bibliography 261

Index 309

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