Sinopsis de FALSE ALARM: HOW CLIMATE CHANGE PANIC COSTS US TRILLIONS, HURTS THE POOR, AND FAILS TO FIX THE PLANET
The New York Times-bestselling "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 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.
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.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Basic Books
ISBN: 9781541647473
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 28/10/2021
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Bjorn Lomborg
Bjorn Lomborg es un académico, escritor y activista medioambiental danés. Es presidente del Copenhagen Consensus Center, un think tank que reúne a los mejores economistas del mundo —entre ellos, siete premios Nobel— para investigar, definir y fomentar las soluciones más efectivas para los grandes problemas mundiales. Doctor en Ciencias Políticas por la Universidad de Copenhague, ha sido profesor visitante de la Copenhagen Business School. Es también autor de los bestsellers El ecologista escéptico (Espasa, 2003) y Falsa alarma (Antoni Bosch, 2021). Lomborg es comentarista habitual en medios como The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, CNN, FOX y la BBC. Su columna mensual se publica en 19 idiomas y en más de 30 periódicos, y tiene más de 30 millones de lectores en todo el mundo.