RUPERT DARWALL is a senior fellow at the National Center for Energy Analytics. He was previously a senior fellow at the RealClear Foundation, researching such issues as energy, environmental policy, and corporate governance. He also worked as an investment analyst and in corporate finance, and served as a special advisor to the UK’s chancellor of the exchequer. The author of two books—Green Tyranny and The Age of Global Warming—and numerous think-tank reports, Darwall has also written for The Wall Street Journal, The Hill, and Daily Telegraph, among others.

“When I first met him as a history undergraduate, Rupert Darwall already showed that he had an unorthodox and enquiring mind. This book also shows his penetrating intelligence. It brings a mastery of detail to a devastating indictment of the Western establishment and its disastrous miscalculations. The political class, he shows, has thrown away the confidence of its voters, preferring to justify its actions by opportunistic claims to scientific authority. It has undermined, and is still undermining, the prosperity, security, and future of our societies. Darwall shows how, why, and what needs to change urgently.”—ROBERT TOMBS, bestselling author and professor emeritus of French history at Cambridge University

RUPERT DARWALL is a senior fellow at the National Center for Energy Analytics. He was previously a senior fellow at the RealClear Foundation, researching such issues as energy, environmental policy, and corporate governance. He also worked as an investment analyst and in corporate finance, and served as a special advisor to the UK’s chancellor of the exchequer. The author of two books—Green Tyranny and The Age of Global Warming—and numerous think-tank reports, Darwall has also written for The Wall Street Journal, The Hill, and Daily Telegraph, among others.

“When I first met him as a history undergraduate, Rupert Darwall already showed that he had an unorthodox and enquiring mind. This book also shows his penetrating intelligence. It brings a mastery of detail to a devastating indictment of the Western establishment and its disastrous miscalculations. The political class, he shows, has thrown away the confidence of its voters, preferring to justify its actions by opportunistic claims to scientific authority. It has undermined, and is still undermining, the prosperity, security, and future of our societies. Darwall shows how, why, and what needs to change urgently.”—ROBERT TOMBS, bestselling author and professor emeritus of French history at Cambridge University

RUPERT DARWALL is a senior fellow at the National Center for Energy Analytics. He was previously a senior fellow at the RealClear Foundation, researching such issues as energy, environmental policy, and corporate governance. He also worked as an investment analyst and in corporate finance, and served as a special advisor to the UK’s chancellor of the exchequer. The author of two books—Green Tyranny and The Age of Global Warming—and numerous think-tank reports, Darwall has also written for The Wall Street Journal, The Hill, and Daily Telegraph, among others.

“When I first met him as a history undergraduate, Rupert Darwall already showed that he had an unorthodox and enquiring mind. This book also shows his penetrating intelligence. It brings a mastery of detail to a devastating indictment of the Western establishment and its disastrous miscalculations. The political class, he shows, has thrown away the confidence of its voters, preferring to justify its actions by opportunistic claims to scientific authority. It has undermined, and is still undermining, the prosperity, security, and future of our societies. Darwall shows how, why, and what needs to change urgently.”—ROBERT TOMBS, bestselling author and professor emeritus of French history at Cambridge University