Bjorn Lomborg

The New York Times-bestselling "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 Artic. 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. False Alarm 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.

How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet

False Alarm

The 12 Most Efficient Solutions for the World's Poorest and Our Global SDG Promises

Best Things First

Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the world’s temperature. He suggests that rather than focusing on ineffective solutions that will cost us trillions of dollars over the coming decades, we should be looking for smarter, more cost-effective approaches (such as massively increasing our commitment to green energy R&D) that will allow us to deal not only with climate change but also with other pressing global concerns, such as malaria and HIV/AIDS. And he considers why and how this debate has fostered an atmosphere in which dissenters are immediately demonized.

Cool It

An analysis of the UN's development targets up until 2030, and the case for prioritizing the most powerful investment areas.

A Cost Benefit Analysis of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals

Prioritizing Development

Saleema Razvi

B. M. Naidu

Andhra Pradesh Priorities

Manorama Bakshi

Rajasthan Priorities

Analysing Costs and Benefits

Ghana Priorities

Cool it - Hidegvér! / A szkeptikus környezetvédő útikalauza a globális felmelegedéshez

Bjorn Lomborg

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