Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage)
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage) – Review
There are many fine points to this book but an overall summary would have to be that there are three camps in the climate change debate; the Denial group, the true group and the over-the-top gang. Al Gore is over-the-top and pushes an agenda that humans want to go all out to quash GW or we are all certain to die. Lomborg has a much better existence of mind even though he has been especially compared to Hitler by the hysterical camp and was once pied by one of them. Judge for yourselves. Anyway, Mr Lomborg, a Danish economist, lays out his argument clearly, that there are reasonable ways to deal with crises such as GW without resorting to the ‘let’s spare no expense’ approach. After all, do we actually require to pay for a GW policy by cutting funding for disease prevention only to delay the effects of GW by a few years? That would cost a group of lives. This is one of those books that gives a very moral perspective on this issue and you walk away really feeling you have quickly learned a good deal. Of course if you like the previously thought of eventually spending trillions with little effect, then comfort yourself with An Inconvenient Truth, which has a ‘go for the throat’ and ‘the end is near’ thesis, and you should be delighted. Those usually preferring not to be radicalized might favor Lomborg’s more (much more) (or infinitely more) rational view. I enjoyed this book quite a mostly bit and still recommended it to the President of the United States! I’m not kidding about that! To another reviewer, Russia is also part of Europe and people fail from hypothermia there as well. That is a sad and awkward fact.