Chasing Rainbows by Tim Worstall
Worstall has written quite an amusing book on the subject of how Green policies tend to backfire and make things worse. It’s a rather short book, that rather reflects his role as one of the world’s leading econobloggers. Tim, also an Adam Smith Institute Fellow, he has made quite a name for himself writing witty pieces on state of the economy. His website can be found at www.timworstall.com The book itself is part of the “Independent Minds” series, a title to which Worstall falls neatly under.
Many of the topics covered have been written about elsewhere in deep detail but Tim manages to reduce them to their component parts. Economics and green issues are normally a source for a snicker or two, but Worstall manages to give some good laugh out loud moments.
Of course, some will complain that Worstall is over-simplifying complex issues of the utmost importance. Then again with some of the recent scandals involved in the whole area of environmentalism and abject hypocrisy of its leading lights like Al Gore, some humor is not out of place.
The book is subtitled, “how the green agenda defeats its aims.” This is publication that open minded environmentally conscious readers would do well to read.
