- Climate change, Climatic changes, Economic aspects, Economic aspects of Pollution
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.
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Contemporary, spare, classical in form and cool.
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- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Bjørn Lomborg
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 253
- Publisher
- Knopf, Vintage Books, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307266927
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