Cool It
The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
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A groundbreaking book that transforms the debate about global warming by offering a fresh perspective based on human needs as well as environmental concerns.
Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered to stop global warming will cost hundredsContinue
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Bjorn Lomborg does not deny climate change caused by man, but he does look at it dispassionately and critically examines the options available to mankind. This of course exasperates the people who see overcoming climate change as a moral imperative ("if you are not with us then you are under the pay ... (continue)
Bjorn Lomborg does not deny climate change caused by man, but he does look at it dispassionately and critically examines the options available to mankind. This of course exasperates the people who see overcoming climate change as a moral imperative ("if you are not with us then you are under the pay of the coal companies"); who see the limiting of economic growth as a kind of collective salvation against certain natural cataclysm. Even better if it is the poorer developing countries who must limit their growth: God forbid that the masses in China and India get to enjoy living standards as high as the citizens of Western world. Lomborg considers:"the world will get warmer: when this happens who gains who suffers. Can we alleviate the problems?". He sees the current model of technological progress and economic growth as having achieved great improvements in the quality of life for humankind, and the same model can overcome the problems of climate change. Lomborg made a big impression on me in his first book, "The Skeptical Environmentalist" and I think he has again made a very good case against unthinking environmentalism (though I should have waited to buy the later British edition which I understand is a longer version).
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