Another climate summit means more expensive, ineffective promises

As promised, below you can read responses from Bjorn Lomborg to questions I posed related to “ Cool It,” the new documentary on his approach to global warming. Other sites are starting to critique points made in the film. While staking what he calls a sensible stance on the issue, he has elicited strong reactions for nearly a decade, including a pie in the face from Mark Lynas, the British environmental campaigner and writer, in 2001. (...) Read it online Int BL 2010 Nov 13 NYTimes Revkin.pdf

By Nicholas Newman, Oxford Prospect.  Increasingly, we are hearing the term that something must be done to solve the world’s almost never-ending ending crises. The media is full of pressing appeals that every problem is urgent and must be tackled immediately, with often little regard to the economic and social costs involved. Unfortunately, for policy makers, the real world of geopolitics and budgetary issues forces politicians to prioritise decisions. Often such policy decisions will be both tough to make and politically unpopular with the public at large.

Zrezygnowanie z jedzenia mięsa to jest najnowsza rada na ratowanie planety: „nowe, duże badanie” twierdzi, że „olbrzymia redukcja w konsumpcji mięsa” jest „niezbędna, by uniknąć załamania się klimatu”, jak to ujmuje „Guardian”.

Było to po twierdzeniach Humane Society, że ”twoja dieta może uratować planetę” i propozycji niemieckiej Partii Zielonych ustanowienia narodowego dnia wegetarianizmu.  Także były dygnitarz ONZ ds. klimatu wierzy, że „najlepszym rozwiązaniem dla nas wszystkich byłoby zostanie wegetarianami”.