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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…

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I enjoyed this and thought it an excellent analysis of the climate problem, doing so without any of the catastrophism so dominant in media and political discourse.

Here, Lomborg makes a comparative study of climate change and many of the other major problems facing the world and succinctly demonstrates that most of our public policy in the West on climate change is unsustainably expensive and will make almost no difference to outcomes.

In it, he lays out a better direction for governments and international organizations to take without losing sight that climate change is just one problem among many…

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