January 11, 2013

Books

Not Easy Being Green

The Carbon CrunchHow We’re Getting Climate Change Wrong—And How to Fix ItDieter HelmYale University Press, $35, 273 pp.

Charles R. Morris

Dieter Helm is an Oxford economist who has made a specialty of energy policy. A strong advocate for reducing emissions, he has been a participant at nearly all the international attempts to fashion responses to climate change. His book is scathing on the lack of progress, but his ire is directed as much at green politicians and advocates as at the Know-Nothings and deniers. To (...)


 

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