
False Alarm
How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
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Narrated by:
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Jim Seybert
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By:
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Bjorn Lomborg
About this listen
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 Arctic. 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. In a new epilogue, Lomborg brings the story up to date, showing the ineffective and costly environmental policies of the Biden administration.
False Alarm will convince you that everything you think about climate change is wrong. It points the way toward making the world a vastly better, if slightly warmer, place for us all.
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©2020 Bjorn Lomborg (P)2020 Hachette AudioCritic reviews
Very average narration.
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Amazing book! Must read!
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Paradigm changing insights!
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It is refreshing to read because it says there is a solution, don't panic, the 'crisis' is real, but temperature should move at a sufficiently slow pace for us to innovate and adapt - as we did to avoid the looming 'population bomb' and mass starvation predicted in the 1960's. Certainly worth reading as a thoughtful critical take on the current headlong flight towards net-zero.
Narration professional.
Original and serious
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Full of real life context
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The dodgeyness comes in some of the cherry-picking and stats. For example, an area I know well, solar energy he dives back to a 2015 example of a UN special project in India where the locals went nuts and were so upset and enraged by the feeble solar power and battery storage they received that the politicians ended up expediting their connection to the grid for 'real power'. The problem is 2015 is 2-3 doublings away in terms of total rollout and price reduction, so in 2020 solar and lithium battery storage can power fridges and more in rural tropical villages, and most importantly at a fraction of the price of connection to the grid. That said, it's not a perfect solution and I wouldn't swap my gridded connection in the UK for an isolated renewable and storage solution. Not yet. I assume he's made other similar forays in other chapters, but I'm not keen enough in each area to know if he's right or wrong, I've just seen attacks on Twitter about some of them.
What is certain is there's a lot to answer for in the modelling of doomsayers and their media click-bait brethren. This book is an important mental doorlock for anyone who wishes those negative forces to come bashing in.
A bit wonky but super-important perspective
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other side to the climate coin
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Great read
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Conversely, the contrasting book, despite being a top rated book by all accounts, mostly used hypothetical without explaining how the conclusions or numbers were reached.
I believe I now understand while climate change is a serious issue, it is not yet out of our control or ability to change in a way that won't destroy civilisation as we know it.
Eye opening
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Brilliant, but tough as Audible
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