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False Alarm
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False Alarm

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

Bjorn Lomborg
Basic Books, 2021

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Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Controversial
  • Analytical
  • Applicable

Recommendation

Professor Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, urges you to be wary of apocalyptic climate change news, even as the media, politicians and activists depict global warming as an existential threat. They assert that society must stop using fossil fuels, eliminate carbon emissions and find a new way to power the global economy. Lomborg is not a climate change denier – he does advocate a carbon tax, green innovation and other measures – but he regards climate change as a tractable problem society can navigate with adaptation and innovation.

Take-Aways

  • The media, politicians and activists cause people to panic about climate change.
  • Experts assess climate change by measuring temperatures and their effect on gross domestic product (GDP).
  • Political leaders should evaluate climate change policies and expenditures based on a cost-benefit analysis.

About the Author

Bjorn Lomborg, a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, ​​also wrote The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It. In 2004, Time named him on its list of the world's 100 most influential people.

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