Let Them Eat Carbon

The Price of Failing Climate Change Policies, and How Governments and Big Business Profit From Them

Matthew Sinclair

• Publisher: Biteback Publishing
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9781849541169
• eBook ISBN: 9781849542050
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Environmental Economics
• Index: Economics

Climate change is big business. Much of the money so-called green policies cost us goes straight into the pockets of a bewildering range of special interests. Around the world companies are making billions out of the schemes governments have put in place saying they will curb global warming and protect us from the threat of climate change. There is little evidence that those policies are an efficient way to cut emissions. They simply do not represent good value, and the public are right to be sceptical. In Let Them Eat Carbon Matthew Sinclair looks at the myths perpetuated by the burgeoning climate change industry, examines the individual policies and the potentially disastrous targets being put into place by ambitious politicians, and proposes a more realistic alternative.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• THE CHALLENGE OF CUTTING EMISSIONS
• EMISSIONS TRADING
• RENEWABLE ENERGY
• GREEN TAXES AND TRANSPORT
• GREEN JOBS
• CORPORATE LOBBYING AND ENVIRONMENTALISTS
• DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
• THE POLITICS
• CONCLUSIONS
• APPENDIX
• LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• Copyright