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False Alarm

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

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False Alarm

Auteur(s): Bjorn Lomborg
Narrateur(s): Jim Seybert
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An “essential” (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. In a new epilogue, Lomborg brings the story up to date, showing the ineffective and costly environmental policies of the Biden administration.

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.

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©2020 Bjorn Lomborg (P)2020 Hachette Audio
Environnement Idéologies et doctrines Politiques publiques Économie Inspirant Système solaire Climate Change Science
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"Lomborg does not lack solutions. In False Alarm, he advocates a range of cost-benefit tested policies to address both climate change and global poverty.... Lomborg does a service in calling out the environmental alarmism and hysteria that obscure environmental debates rather than illuminate them."—National Review
"The best way to deal with global warming is to increase global prosperity.... The choice we face, Lomborg writes, is between a human future driven by fear and one driven by ingenuity. On that, he is exactly right."—The Bulwark
"Lomborg's most basic premise remains that there are better ways to alleviate human misery than spending taxpayer subsidies than on panic-driven, political non-solutions to a changing climate. Few would argue with that goal."—American Thinker
"Lomborg brands climate change warnings as alarmist, and argues that a massive reduction in fossil fuels would exacerbate global poverty, in this detailed account.... Lomborg is careful to back his cost-benefit analyses of climate policies with surveys and statistics."—Publishers Weekly
"[Lomborg] follows his previous critiques of climate change policy...with a hard-hitting analysis of failing strategies for addressing what he acknowledges is 'a real problem.'...A serious, debatable assessment of a controversial global issue."—Kirkus

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exceptional!

this is a must read by all that consider climate change to be a top five issue. Bjorn Lomborg lays out a thorough case for the abandonment of climate alarmism driven policies for climate realistic policies.

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Constructive Cost vs Benefit Analysis

I love Bjorn's pragmatic approach to such a complex issue, such as the climate change policies. I hope, at least some of our politicians understand the economics of the climate change at Bjorn's level.

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very thought provoking

really compelled by the authors arguments on our ineffective modern approaches to climate change and enjoyed his alternative solutions and positivity for the future. His arguments mainly surrounded helping the future of humanity which I appreciate but I would have liked to hear more arguments as to how his ideas will help preserve our forests and global biodiversity.

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Overall very well balanced and pragmatic approach

Overall very well balanced and pragmatic approach to the impacts of global warming. There were a few areas that he appeared to contradict himself. I doubt he did, but the context in which it was written may have led the reader to think so. I love the GDP comparison, but some of the readers may not be able relate to this, so a little more time on explanation and why its a reasonable approach could be added. This is a book that needs to hit the masses. Before reading this booked I already knew the Paris Accord if executed would doom humanity. This book articulates my concerns very well, and should be read by all the young generation before its to late...... for them.

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Eye opening!

Easily the best book I have ever read on Climate Change. the data and ideas shared in this book are so important and more people need to hear about them. The ideas and examples given in the book will better equipt you in discussing Climate Change with your friends or when going into politics. There are bigger issues in the world then Climate Change.

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Needed info for future generations

Needed info as the media has hyped the effects of climate change. The end is NOT neigh

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Enlightening

This book is by far one of the most eye opening books I ha e ever read. his arguments are well crafted, sophisticated yet simple. it builds on and corre to the things we know are hypocritical in the green catastrophe. it makes sense and offers hope above all the overwhelming negative messages from the politically motivated idealists.

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Well informed, research based

Definitely a heavy read / listen with lots of data, numbers, and even graphs. But it is so good to hear someone speaking out of well-informed research about the climate. Would have liked to hear Bjorn narrate.

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Great Engineering Perspective

Really enjoyed this book. it actually looks at the science and the numbers rather than just media retotic.

Well done

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Great read.

I hope more people read these books and we start moving towards pragmatic approaches to our problems.

Innovation, Adaptation and Pragmatism need to be part of the conversation.

We need to stop the panic it isn't helping anyone.

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