False alarm
how climate change panic costs us trillions hurts the poor and fails to fix the planet
Book - 2020
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.
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New York :
Basic Books,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Why do we get climate change so wrong? -- |t Measuring the future -- |t A fuller story on climate change -- |t Extreme weather or extreme exaggeration? -- |t What is global warming going to cost us? -- |t You can't fix climate change -- |t Why the Green Revolution isn't here yet -- |t Why the Paris Agreement is failing -- |t Pick a path : which future is best? -- |t How climate policy hurts the poor -- |t Carbon tax : the market-based solution -- |t Innovation : what is needed most -- |t Adaptation : simple but effective -- |t Geoengineering : a backup plan -- |t Prosperity : the other climate policy we need -- |t Conclusion : how to make the world a better place. |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-292) and index. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Economic development |x Environmental aspects. | |
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