Climate Change, Poverty, and How Governments WASTE Your Money

Starting in the 1990s, at the end of the Cold War, climate change became a fixation for rich-country politicians and elites. 

Getting to net-zero carbon emissions would benefit the average person. But the cost would be many times greater. For now, it makes no sense

2013-06-18 COPENHAGEN – We often hear how the world as we know it will end, usually through ecological collapse. Indeed, more than 40 years after the Club of Rome released the mother of all apocalyptic forecasts, The Limits to Growth, its basic ideas are still with us. But time has not been kind. Limits to Growth warned humanity in 1972 that devastating collapse was just around the corner. But, while we have seen financial panics since then, there have been no real shortages or productive breakdowns. Instead, the resources generated by human ingenuity remain far ahead of human consumption.