{"product_id":"false-alarm-how-climate-change-panic-costs-us-trillions-hurts-the-poor-and-fails-to-fix-the-planet-9781541647473","title":"False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A very important and superbly argued book\" (Matt Ridley) by the bestselling \"skeptical environmentalist\" argues that panic over climate change is causing more harm than good\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHurricanes 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnough, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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. \u003ci\u003eFalse Alarm\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bjorn Lomborg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Basic Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/19\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.24h x 5.55w x 0.91d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781541647473\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBjorn Lomborg \u003c\/b\u003eis the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Skeptical Environmentalist\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCool It\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School and at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. His work appears regularly in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eEconomist\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eForbes.\u003c\/i\u003e His monthly column appears in around forty papers in nineteen languages, with more than thirty million readers. \u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003emagazine has named him one of the 100 Most Influential People of the World, and \u003ci\u003eForeign Policy\u003c\/i\u003e has repeatedly called him one of the Top 10 Global Thinkers. The\u003ci\u003e Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e identified him as \"one of the 50 people who could save the planet.\" He lives in Sweden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39827318767731,"sku":"9781541647473","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_1838f46f-c31e-4da9-81f8-4a11c1a98bf8.jpg?v=1644564744","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/false-alarm-how-climate-change-panic-costs-us-trillions-hurts-the-poor-and-fails-to-fix-the-planet-9781541647473","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}