Bjorn Lomborg - False Alarm
Bjorn Lomborg - False Alarm
How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, And Fails to Fix the Planet
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Today’s book is:
False Alarm - How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, And Fails to Fix the Planet - by Bjorn Lomborg
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.
You can buy the book here (Amazon link).
“In panic, world leaders have committed to wildly expensive…”
It’s a “panic” in the same sense that a smash-and-grab robbery is a panic. I would be inclined to call it deliberate looting.
what a scam. it seems every 100 years there is a new scammy scam to suck money out of people's hard earned savings... heck, it is not savings anymore, now it is just taxed before it lands in our bank account. All of these shit heads are living large with infinity pools and mountains of moolah, and they are still not happy.