False alarm : how climate change panic costs us trillions, hurts the poor, and fails to fix the planet
Lomborg, Bjorn, 1965-2021
Books, Manuscripts
With hurricanes battering coast lines, sea level rise threatening entire countries with extinction and wildfires raging across broad swaths of America and the planet, it is hardly surprising that countering global warming has become a top priority for the developing world. In ten years, we have gone from arguing about whether climate change is real to wagering on how soon it will actually extinguish planet Earth.
Main title:
Author:
Imprint:
New York : Basic Books, 2021.New York : Basic Books, 2021.
Collation:
vi, 323 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2020.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781541647473 (pbk)
Dewey class:
363.73874
Language:
English
Subject:
Climatic changes -- Government policyGlobal warming -- Government policyEconomic development -- Environmental aspectsEnvironment and EcologyPolitical science & theoryPolitical ideologiesLiberalism & centre democratic ideologiesConservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologiesEnvironmental economics
BRN:
2524427