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

Bjorn Lomborg

Jul 2020 · Sold by Basic Books

About this ebook

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 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.

Ratings and reviews

Very balanced look at the real problem of climate change with an empirical view of the proposed measures to address it. We clearly need more rational paths forward and they need to take into account where we currently are with technology, not simply where the politicians wished we were.

About the author

Bjorn Lomborg is the bestselling author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It. He is president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and a visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Time magazine named him one of the world’s one hundred most influential people, and his work appears regularly in top media across the world. He lives in Sweden.