To curb climate change, environmentalists need to face the hard economic facts
THIS book will anger many environmentalists. In it, Dieter Helm argues that they, and green-minded political leaders, have wasted two decades in counterproductive efforts to curb climate change, and he calls for climate crusaders to get behind the much-hated new fossil fuel, shale gas.
A University of Oxford economist with a distinguished pedigree on climate change, Helm is no closet sceptic. He is adamant that action to halt global warming is urgent. But he says that the dogged installation, especially in Europe, of expensive and poorly performing wind…
