An important” (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. A new epilogue details climate
lessons from a year of global economic shutdown due to COVID-19 and from our increasingly
costly but often very ineffective climate policies. 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.
