False Alarm - How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and

The New York Times-bestselling "skeptical environmentalist" argues that panic over climate change is causing more harm than goodHurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Artic. 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.False Alarm will convince you that everything you think about climate change is wrong -- and points the way toward making the world a vastly better, if slightly warmer, place for us all.

Product details

• Authors: Bjorn Lomborg
• Publisher: Basic Books Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781541647473
• ISBN: 978-1-5416-4747-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 209 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Libertarianism, Political science & theory, Environmental Economics, Pollution & threats to the environment, Political science and theory, Pollution and threats to the environment, Political ideologies and movements, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies