False Alarm
How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
New York : Basic Books, 2020.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: vi, 307 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
This book 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.
Contents:
Why do we get climate change so wrong? -- Measuring the future -- A fuller story on climate change -- Extreme weather or extreme exaggeration? -- What is global warming going to cost us? -- You can't fix climate change -- Why the Green Revolution isn't here yet -- Why the Paris Agreement is failing -- Pick a path : which future is best? -- How climate policy hurts the poor -- Carbon tax : the market-based solution -- Innovation : what is needed most -- Adaptation : simple but effective -- Geoengineering : a backup plan -- Prosperity : the other climate policy we need -- Conclusion : how to make the world a better place.
Subjects:
Climatic changes -- Government policy.
Climatic changes -- Political aspects.
Global warming -- Government policy.
Global warming -- Political aspects.
Economic development -- Environmental aspects.
Climatic changes -- Government policy.
Climatic changes -- Political aspects.
Global warming -- Government policy.
Global warming -- Political aspects.
Economic development -- Environmental aspects.
ISBN:
1541647467
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SCIENCE Climate Lom | Ballentine Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-292) and index.