Cool it
the skeptical environmentalist's guide to global warming
by Bjørn Lomborg
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A startling book that reshapes the debate about global warming and offers a moderate approach to meeting its challenges.Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered--the Kyoto Protocol, for example--have a staggering potential cost of hundreds of billions of dollars, but, ultimately, will have little impact on the world's temperature. He suggests that rather than institutionalizing these programs to "cool" the earth's temperature 100 years from now, we should focus our resources on some of the world's most pressing immediate concerns, such as: fighting malaria and HIV/AIDS, and maintaining a safe, fresh water supply. And he considers why and how this debate has developed an atmosphere in which dissenters are immediately demonized.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Climate change, Climatic changes, Economic aspects, Economic aspects of Pollution, Economic development, Environmental aspects, Environmental aspects of Economic development, Environmental responsibility, Global warming, Globalization, Government policy, Nonfiction, Pollution, Science, Klimaänderung, Umweltpolitik, Broeikaseffect, Klimaatveranderingen, Erwärmung <Meteorologie>, Controversen, Economic development, environmental aspects, Global warming, government policy| Edition | Availability |
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Cool it: the skeptical environmentalist's guide to global warming
2008, Vintage Books
in English
- 1st Vintage Books ed.
030738652X 9780307386526
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Cool It
2007, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Electronic resource
in English
0307267792 9780307267795
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Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
September 4, 2007, Knopf
Hardcover
in English
- 1 edition
0307266923 9780307266927
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Cool it: the skeptical environmentalist's guide to global warming
2007, Alfred A. Knopf
in English
- 1st American ed.
0307266923 9780307266927
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