Cool IT (Movie Tie-in Edition): The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming - Brossura

Lomborg, Bjorn

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ISBN 10: 0307741109 ISBN 13: 9780307741103

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010

Riassunto

Argues that many of the elaborate actions being considered to stop global warming are too costly and will have little impact, and suggests that society's focus should be on such immediate concerns as fighting HIV/AIDS and maintaining a fresh water supply.

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Recensione:

“Far more convincing than An Inconvenient Truth.”
—The Financial Post
 
“Brimming with useful facts and common sense. . . . [Lomborg's] analysis is smart and refreshing, and it may bridge at least one divide in our too divided culture.”
—The Wall Street Journal
 
“Enlightening, eye-opening, brain-nourishing stuff!”
—Los Angeles Times
 
“A reasoned addition to the debate about what to do about climate change. . . . Sure to provoke much controversy.”
—Esquire
 
“Bjorn Lomborg is the best-informed and most humane advocate for environmental change in the world today. . . . [He] and Cool It are our best guides to our shared environmental future.”
—Michael Crichton
 
“[A] calm, civil, even-handed analysis. [Cool It] is suffused with concern for socially beneficial priorities and for practical steps to do good. . . . It provides some badly needed balance.”
—Financial Times

L'autore:

Bjorn Lomborg is the author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and USA Today. He was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2004. In 2008 he was named “one of the 50 people who could save the planet” by The Guardian; one of the top 100 public intellectuals by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazine; and one of the world’s 75 most influential people of the 21st century by Esquire. He is presently an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School, and in 2004 he started the Copenhagen Consensus, a conference of top economists who come together to prioritize the best solutions for the world’s greatest challenges.
 
Visit the author's website at www.lomborg.com.

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• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0307741109
• ISBN 13: 9780307741103
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 300