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False Alarm
- How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
- Narrated by: Jim Seybert
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The New York Times best-selling "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 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 best-selling 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.
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What the critics say
"Bjorn Lomborg is that rare thing: a clear-sighted realist about climate change. In False Alarm, he argues that it would be foolish to do nothing to prepare for a warmer planet, but it would be more foolish to pretend that we are doing things that will significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions when we are not. At the same time, getting serious about cutting CO2 emissions will have a cost. As Lomborg says, vastly more people die as a consequence of poverty and disease each year than die as a consequence of global warming. As in the past, we humans are capable of adapting to climate change in ways that can significantly mitigate its adverse effects, without choking off economic growth. To learn how, you must read False Alarm." (Niall Ferguson, the Hoover Institution, Stanford University)
"Bjorn Lomborg's new book offers a data-driven, human-centered antidote to the oft-apocalyptic discussion characterizing the effect of human activity on the global climate. Careful, compelling, and above all sensible and pragmatic." (Jordan Peterson, author of 12 Rules for Life)
"[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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- Bruce E Evans
- 2022-09-15
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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- Dmitry
- 2021-05-27
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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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-05-05
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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- Jordan Crowell
- 2021-04-05
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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- Russell Dion
- 2022-09-19
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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- Vernon
- 2023-01-28
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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- Anonymous User
- 2020-11-16
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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- Tom
- 2020-11-05
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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- Richard Leger
- 2021-07-19
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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- Darren Cargill
- 2021-04-22
great take on climate change
well researched. a reasonable approach to climate change that is not hysterical alarmism. would recommend highly to anyone interested in climate change
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