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

Bjorn Lomborg

Jul 2020 · Hachette Audio · Narrated by Jim Seybert

About this audiobook

An “essential” (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. In a new epilogue, Lomborg brings the story up to date, showing the ineffective and costly environmental policies of the Biden administration. 
 
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. 

Ratings and reviews

fantastic book. provides a more balanced and realistic look at where we are and how we have benefited from fossil fuels. Most people are starting to understand the devastating impact on the world's poorest people from overly exuberant climate scare mongers. Yes we need to transition to cleaner fuel. However we must not jeopardise the lives of the poorest 2 billion by reducing the quantity if food produced each year.

About the author

Bjorn Lomborg is the bestselling author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It. He is president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and a visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Time magazine named him one of the world’s one hundred most influential people, and his work appears regularly in top media across the world. He lives in Sweden.