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Let Them Eat Carbon: The Price of Failing Climate Change Policies, and How Governments and Big Business Profit From Them Paperback – 18 Aug. 2011

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Ordinary people are paying a ruinous price for the attempts politicians make to control greenhouse gas emissions. Climate change policies dramatically raise electricity bills; make it much more expensive to drive to work or fly on holiday; put manufacturing workers out of a job and sometimes even make your food more expensive. 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.

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320 pages
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English
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Biteback Publishing
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18 Aug. 2011
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12.7 x 2.54 x 20.32 cm
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1849541167
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978-1849541169
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This book offers a great insight into the increasingly important but poorly understood world of climate change policy. Anyone who wants to understand how they are affected, and what can be done about the gross failure and exorbitant cost of politicians attempts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, will find it invaluable. --Lord Lawson, author of An Appeal to Reason

"A terrifically well-researched, well-argued and persuasive exposition of the huge economic and personal costs of our current energy policy. Read it. And heed it. --Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser, Arbuthnot Banking Group; former Head of the Policy Unit, Institute of Directors

"A terrifically well-researched, well-argued and persuasive exposition of the huge economic and personal costs of our current energy policy. Read it. And heed it. --Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser, Arbuthnot Banking Group; former Head of the Policy Unit, Institute of Directors

This book offers a great insight into the increasingly important but poorly understood world of climate change policy. Anyone who wants to understand how they are affected, and what can be done about the gross failure and exorbitant cost of politicians attempts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, will find it invaluable. --Lord Lawson, author of An Appeal to Reason

"A terrifically well-researched, well-argued and persuasive exposition of the huge economic and personal costs of our current energy policy. Read it. And heed it. --Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser, Arbuthnot Banking Group; former Head of the Policy Unit, Institute of Directors

This book offers a great insight into the increasingly important but poorly understood world of climate change policy. Anyone who wants to understand how they are affected, and what can be done about the gross failure and exorbitant cost of politicians attempts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, will find it invaluable. --Lord Lawson, author of An Appeal to Reason

"A terrifically well-researched, well-argued and persuasive exposition of the huge economic and personal costs of our current energy policy. Read it. And heed it. --Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser, Arbuthnot Banking Group; former Head of the Policy Unit, Institute of Directors

This book offers a great insight into the increasingly important but poorly understood world of climate change policy. Anyone who wants to understand how they are affected, and what can be done about the gross failure and exorbitant cost of politicians attempts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, will find it invaluable. --Lord Lawson, author of An Appeal to Reason

"A terrifically well-researched, well-argued and persuasive exposition of the huge economic and personal costs of our current energy policy. Read it. And heed it. --Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser, Arbuthnot Banking Group; former Head of the Policy Unit, Institute of Directors

This book offers a great insight into the increasingly important but poorly understood world of climate change policy. Anyone who wants to understand how they are affected, and what can be done about the gross failure and exorbitant cost of politicians attempts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, will find it invaluable. --Lord Lawson, author of An Appeal to Reason

About the Author

MATTHEW SINCLAIR is Director of the Taxpayers Alliance. He is the editor of How to Cut Public Spending (and Still Win an Election).

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Biteback Publishing (18 Aug. 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1849541167
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1849541169
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 2.54 x 20.32 cm

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Vanda Denton

I disagree with the conclusions drawn.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 August 2021

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Once you realise this book is about the financial gains of carbon change policy, rather than the science of climate change, it makes sense. And it is horrifying, rather than unsurprising. However, I was shocked to see the proposal that climate change is not at a critical point. Yes, we know there are people who will use anything, including climate change, to make money, but to deny the science does not follow from this. The science is clear. We need effective policies to deal with climate change, not a denial of the immediacy of it.
Sinclair offers the alternative as “betting” on human ingenuity in adapting to climate change, such as investing in the research for our options in the event of disaster, and go for growth. Yet, surely those alternatives are as open to financial corruption as the green policies he criticises.

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Alistair

Very interesting read great service by BookBarn

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 April 2021

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Book arrived very quickly from the seller The Book Barn. In much better condition that expected for the price. The book presents a specific view on how much going green might really be costing us all and the possibility some organisations might be profiting from this without offering much back in terms of real green progress. It might make some controversial points but these balance out the green at all costs stance and if nothing else will help you decide if you are making the right choices. It would be good to see an updated edition 10 years on.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 January 2012

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A good book that explains exactly how the general public are in a lot of cases being conned by the green energy camp and polticians. It expalins the carbon trading and EU carbon trading schemes, puts to bed a lot of the myths being peddled about renewable enrgy and explains just how much we are paying for renewable energy and how with all the renewable enrgy schemes we still need back up power generators to ensure consistency of supply.

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David Petch

Storming the winter palace

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 November 2011

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The sheer lunacy of the European and American fiscal policy for promoting "Green energy" is encapsulated in a quotation on page 264 of this book " Unlike traditional commodities, which sometime during the course of their market must be delivered to someone in physical form, the carbon market is based on the lack of delivery of an invisible substance to no one." , The author adds the deceptively neutral remark *The integrity of the scheme depends on the credibility of the validations," Having neatly set the scene he then demonstrates how the carbon market not only rewards dishonesty and corruption, it is as though its architects have perversely designed it to ensure such vices should be widespread, but also does nothing to achieve the goals which are supposed to justify its existence.

Many of the arguments in this book have been made elsewhere by other authors ( the inefficiencies and expense of renewable energy; the mirage of "green jobs" created on the back of massive public subsidy which do not have a deleterious effect on the ordinary job market;the wilful blindness of our politicians to the intentions and expectations of developing countries). The added value in this book is that it brings all these elements together and using very plain, sometimes pungent, language and sticking closely to hard economic facts shows the extent of our current folly. It would be nice to think that senior officials in the Department of Energy and climate change would each a receive a copy in their Christmas stocking and be made to read it. But I fear that too much political capital has been invested in the new pseudo- religion of sustainabiity for it to be taken into account. What Matthew Sinclair is preaching is heresy and his awkward facts will be brushed aside in defence of a transcendental truth which must be protected.

in his conclusions Sinclair acknowledges the formidable special interests which defend the status quo . He urges his readership , on the assumption that they agree his line of argument, to keep up the good fight. I think he might have drawn more on a projection of his own economic material at this point. If he is correct about the economic consequences of current policies, and I think he is, then their comes a point where no matter how dominant the creed in government circles , the media and among the bien pensants neither the balance sheets nor the growing noise from the shivering mob outside the window can be ignored. Perhaps this expectation is sub consciously reflected in his title.

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Why won't they listen?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 September 2011

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Like all great books that uncover poor decisions made by the government with our money, this one leaves you asking "Why the hell won't they listen to reason?" A well written, interesting book, I just wish it wasn't so accurate.

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P. Henrick

Takes the emotion out of climate change

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 October 2011

This intelligently written book takes the emotion out of the climate change question. No doubt the title will cause many environmentalists to fume, but this book does not deal with the science of climate change; it is a calm and well researched analysis of the misguided policies of the West in response to the threat. What this book shows is that lots of organisations are making lots of money out of these policies (at the expense of consumers - you and me) whilst westeren jobs are being exported to the developing economies (and hence having no effect on reducing CO2 emissions). Matthew Sinclair gives us alternatives to these counterproductive policies - but will the EU monolith listen?

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