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The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
Knopf
September 2008
On Sale: September 2, 2008
224 pages ISBN: 0307266923 EAN: 9780307266927 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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 hundreds of billions of dollars, are often
based on emotional rather than strictly scientific
assumptions, and may very well have little impact on the
world’s temperature for hundreds of years. Rather than
starting with the most radical procedures, Lomborg argues
that we should first focus our resources on more immediate
concerns, such as fighting malaria and HIV/AIDS and assuring
and maintaining a safe, fresh water supply—which can be
addressed at a fraction of the cost and save millions of
lives within our lifetime. He asks why the debate over
climate change has stifled rational dialogue and killed
meaningful dissent. Lomborg presents us with a second generation of thinking on
global warming that believes panic is neither warranted nor
a constructive place from which to deal with any of
humanity’s problems, not just global warming. Cool It
promises to be one of the most talked about and influential
books of our time.
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