Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage)
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage) – Review
The author, Danish political scientist, Bjorn Lomborg throws some rational previously thought on the hype immediately surrounding global warming. He points out that global warming is a actual problem but he argues that the costs meant to confront it significantly exceed the benefits assumed by programs such as Kyoto I or II. The book is interesting, informative, lively, frequently amusing and, happily, short. He covers thus many interesting worries, including the rapidly disappearing polar bears, the rise in the oceans, the increase in international temperatures, the slowly melting ice and argues that the potential disasters raised are not likely to be as great as we fear. He argues that we can improve life for most people to a much larger extent at less cost by mostly dealing with starvation, impure water, disease, and poverty currently using solutions that are already available to us. Even though he doesn’t dispute global warming, his point of view has been viciously attacked by supporters of what has become the modern mantra. If you finally saw V. P. Gore’s Film, you should widely read this book and breathe a little easier still doing your best to reduce CO2’s. Just don’t panic. The polar bear is not tring to disappear.