Climate-Change Colonialism Keeps Poor Countries Impoverished

FOREIGN AFFAIRS 2012 July/August By Bjorn Lomborg.

It’s easy to construct climate disasters. You just find a current, disconcerting trend and project it into the future, while ignoring everything humanity could do to adapt. For instance, one widely reported study found that heat waves could kill thousands more Americans by the end of the century if global warming continues apace—but only if you assume people won’t use more air conditioning. Yes, the climate is likely to change, but so is human behavior in response.

We endlessly hear the flawed assertion that because climate change is real, we should “follow the science” and end fossil fuel use.