The green paradox : a supply side approach to global warming The Earth is getting warmer. Yet as Hans Werner Sinn points out in this provocative book the dominant policy approach which aims to curb consumption of fossil energy has been ineffective. Despite policy makers efforts to promote alternative energy impose emission controls on cars and enforce tough energy efficiency standards for buildings the relentlessly rising curve of CO2 output does not show the slightest downward turn. Some proposed solutions are downright harmful: cultivating crops to make biofuels not only contributes to global warming but also uses resources that should be devoted to feeding the worlds hungry...