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Cool It (English Edition) 1st 版, Kindle版
- ISBN-13978-0307266927
- 版1st
- 出版社Vintage
- 発売日2007/9/11
- 言語英語
- ファイルサイズ2157 KB
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“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
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Preface
Global warming has been portrayed recently as the greatest crisis in the history of civilization. As of this writing, stories on it occupy the front pages of Time and Newsweek and are featured prominently in countless media around the world. In the face of this level of unmitigated despair, it is perhaps surprising–and will by many be seen as inappropriate–to write a book that is basically optimistic about humanity’s prospects.
That humanity has caused a substantial rise in atmospheric carbon-dioxide levels over the past centuries, thereby contributing to global warming, is beyond debate. What is debatable, however, is whether hysteria and headlong spending on extravagant CO2-cutting programs at an unprecedented price is the only possible response. Such a course is especially debatable in a world where billions of people live in poverty, where millions die of curable diseases, and where these lives could be saved, societies strengthened, and environments improved at a fraction of the cost.
Global warming is a complex subject. No one–not Al Gore, not the world’s leading scientists, and most of all not myself–claims to have all the knowledge and all the solutions. But we have to act on the best available data from both the natural and the social sciences. The title of this book has two meanings: the first and obvious one is that we have to set our minds and resources toward the most effective way to tackle long-term global warming. But the second refers to the current nature of the debate. At present, anyone who does not support the most radical solutions to global warming is deemed an outcast and is called irresponsible and is seen as possibly an evil puppet of the oil lobby. It is my contention that this is not the best way to frame a debate on so crucial an issue. I believe most participants in the debate have good and honorable intentions–we all want to work toward a better world. But to do so, we need to cool the rhetoric, allowing us to have a measured discussion about the best ways forward. Being smart about our future is the reason we have done so well in the past. We should not abandon our smarts now.
If we manage to stay cool, we will likely leave the twenty-first century with societies much stronger, without rampant death, suffering, and loss, and with nations much richer, with unimaginable opportunity in a cleaner, healthy environment.
From the Hardcover edition.
著者について
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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- ASIN : B000UZQGXU
- 出版社 : Vintage; 1st版 (2007/9/11)
- 発売日 : 2007/9/11
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La lettura è interessante, e stimola la discussione, ancor di più oggi, dopo la firma dell'accordo di Parigi che impegna i Paesi firmatari ad implementare costose azioni. Una modulazione diversa delle ingenti risorse porterebbe per altre vie a risultati socialmente molto più efficaci.
Una voce fuori dal coro, anche se con molta audience
Granted, Lomberg admits, "humanity has caused a substantial rise in atmospheric carbon-dioxide levels over the past centuries, thereby contributing to global warming."
His solution? Let's cure AIDs, malaria, hunger and poverty first. Dealing with what we know rather than facing unknown unknowns is a noble approach that has motivated mankind for centuries. When people did not know how to cure smallpox, to cite an example, the alternative was to make the king and nobles uselessly rich and let most peasants live without clean water, sewage disposal and other basic necessities. The impact of global warming is as unknown today as was the cause of smallpox two centuries ago.
Today we need a president in the style of Abraham Lincoln who believed government can do things collectively that people cannot do individually. He was far more rational than modern fools who say taxes are only a form of "greed" and the true key to a better community is personal riches grabbed by any means possible.
Keeping these two ideas in mind, this book is a good analysis of the global warming debate. It is concise (164 pages of text, the rest is notes and sources), beautifully intelligent, blue skies clear and skeptical. No great idea should exist without rigorous challenge, questioning and alternatives. Think of the impact had some "Lomborg" 25 years ago offered similar questions about Reagan's rush to financial deregulation.
Lomborg doesn't deny global warming (the t-shirt mentality says "Al Gore didn't invent the Internet; he did invent Global Warming"). Instead, he suggests cost effective solutions such as carbon dioxide taxes. He'll properly infuriate climate change doers, doubters, deniers and dimbulbs.
Consider: What if Henry Ford was as concerned about pollution as he was about inventing the Model T and the moving assembly line? Or, what if horses were still the favoured means of transport for goods and people? A brilliant innovation may create a problem, but every solution must be dealt with in the context of the problem it solved.
Consider: Bottled water is sold because some people fear "polluted" municipal water. But, what if today's "natural" water was similar to that of 200 years ago when it might contain smallpox (instead of chlorine?) and other bacteria?
Consider: Lomborg raises a string of relevant issues that every intelligent person should consider before plunging into any climate change debate. All in all, this is a fine introduction to pollution, climate change, hype, hysteria and hope.
Consider: As with the financial industry, government is a solution and not the problem.