Title:
False alarm : how climate change panic costs us trillions, hurts the poor, and fails to fix the planet / Bjorn Lomborg.
ISBN:
9781541647473
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Edition:
Updated with a new epilogue; First trade paperback edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Basic Books, 2021.
Physical Description:
vi, 323 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
General Note:
"Originally published in hardcover and ebook by Basic Books in July 2020"--Title page verso.
Contents:
Why do we get climate change so wrong? -- Measuring the future -- A fuller story on climate change -- Extreme weather or extreme exaggeration? -- What is global warming going to cost us? -- You can't fix climate change -- Why the Green Revolution isn't here yet -- Why the Paris Agreement is failing -- Pick a path : which future is best? -- How climate policy hurts the poor -- Carbon tax : the market-based solution -- Innovation : what is needed most -- Adaptation : simple but effective -- Geoengineering : a backup plan -- Prosperity : the other climate policy we need -- Conclusion : how to make the world a better place -- Epilogue.
Summary:
"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"--Back cover.
OCLC Number:
on1230232597
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