Saturday, October 12, 2019

OPINION_ Climate change activists are focused on all the wrong solutions

NEW YORK POST

OPINION

Climate change activists are focused on all the wrong solutions

By Bjorn Lomborg

October 12, 2019 | 12:33pm



Activists want people to quit flying, driving and eating meat, but those aren't the changes that will make a difference.
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As it is becoming obvious that political responses to global warming such as the Paris treaty are not working, environmentalists are urging us to consider the climate impact of our personal actions. Don’t eat meat, don’t drive a gasoline-powered car and don’t fly, they say. But these individual actions won’t make a substantial difference to our planet, and such demands divert attention away from the solutions that are needed.

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Chinese students cover their noses after school in heavy smog.
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This would bring forward the day when green-energy alternatives are cheaper and more attractive than fossil fuels not just for the elite but for the entire world.

Right now, despite all the rhetoric about the importance of global warming, we are not ramping up this spending. On the sidelines of the 2015 Paris climate summit, more than 20 world leaders made a promise to double green-energy research and development by 2020. But spending has only inched up from $16 billion in 2015 to $17 billion in 2018. This is a broken promise that matters.


After 30 years of pursuing the wrong solution to climate change, we need to change the script.


Bjorn Lomborg is president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School.

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