Let Them Eat Carbon: The Price of Failing Climate Change Policies, and How Governments and Big Business Profit from Them

Climate change is big business and ordinary people are paying a heavy price for the attempts politicians make to control greenhouse gas emissions. Climate change policies push up electricity bills; make it more expensive to drive to work or fly on holiday; put manufacturing workers out of a job and sometimes make food more expensive. However, much of the money governments spend on so-called green policies goes straight into the pockets of a bewildering range of special interests. Across the world companies are making billions out of the schemes politicians have put in place to curb global warming and protect us from the threat of climate change. Unfortunately, there is little evidence that the various schemes that make up global climate change policy 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 posits a sensible alternative climate change and environment policy that will not waste unimaginable amounts of money.