⇑ Björn Lomborg om False Alarm

We live in an age of fear - particularly a fear of climate change. Children line the streets in protest, while adults wonder whether it's ethical to start a family. Activists warn us that the planet faces ‘slaughter, death, and starvation,' and Time magazine tells readers to ‘Be worried. Be very worried.' A 2019 poll found that almost half of the world's population believes climate change will likely end the human race.

Enough, argues bestselling author, professor and ‘skeptical environmentalist' Bjorn Lomborg. In False Alarm, Lomborg delves into the data to show that while climate change is real, it is not the apocalyptic threat that we've been told it is. Projections of Earth's imminent demise misconstrue the science and generate bad policy. In a panic, world leaders have committed to wildly expensive but largely ineffective policies that hamper growth, fail to fix climate change smartly, and crowd out other pressing investments in human capital, from nutrition to immunization to education. As the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed, we can't enact major policies without considering their potential unintended consequences.

⇑ Källor

• False Alarm, Björn Lomborg, pdf
• False Alarm, Björn Lomborg, Avalonlibrary.net
• False Alarm, Björn Lomborg
• A closer examination of the fantastical numbers in Bjorn Lomborg's new book, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Bjorn Lomborg | False Alarm, Oxford Karl Popper Society, Youtube