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the author has put a lot of critical thinking into this book. makes the climate change discussion easy to understand

Love how the author goes through the studies and gives them context. Additionally gives context for the issues within the larger human world. To think that monies dedicated to climate change now could instead solve a handful of other more serious problems and in effect also advance progress on climate change is nuanced and compelling…

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in every high school and college econ and environmental science course. Common sensical risk analysis without hype or political parrtisanship.

Lomborg’s review of current climate policies and news stories is enlightening. I have been very skeptical about the media’s reporting of almost everything for the past decade related to the environment especially as I have seen them significantly misreport environmental water science, a field in which I am expert. So to have a well documented..

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I didn’t like the conversational style of narration-too much emotional inflection, like somebody is telling you their experience, Distracting from the content. I gave up after a couple of pages. If you are interested in the history of the battle, don’t bother with this book.

Very good book! it is good to understand that climate change is a middle ground problem. loved reading it !

I enjoyed the book and gleaned a lot of insight into what reality vs fiction are. The book should be a 5 for the data alone. Unfortunately Bjorn has the same problem Steve Pinker does. They both like to arbitrarily declare things problems right after they explain why it’s really not. Very frustrating Nicky Pfreemarketsgreenearth.com

Finally, a rational, explicit, factual examination of the climate problem without denying that it is a problem but also without panicked exaggeration! This topic is so heated, so politically divisive that it seems we will never come to an agreement that will protect the environment and those of us who live within it. THIS, THIS,..

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Common sense to solve our problems is the right way to go. Not fun, not sellable in today crisis media, but the right thing to do.

Sorry to say but this book is not what I want or thought it was. If you want a book on the religious ideas of shame then this book is for you. But if you want something to explain shame and how we as humans deal with that this is not the book for you.