Enthusiastic solar energy story on American ABC

Fox interview with Bjørn Lomborg. Watch it online (only available from the USA)

At 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, in the U.S. and around the world, around one billion people are expected to switch off their lights for one hour as a political statement against climate change and fossil fuels, and in support of carbon cuts and renewable energy.

This feel-good exercise not only does absolutely nothing for the planet, but it ignores the reality that what the world’s poorest need right now is more light and energy, much of which will be powered by fossil fuels, not darkness.

Bjorn Lomborg is not your typical environmental thinker. A former Greenpeace activist, he is now frustrated with the state of our climate change debate – calling for constructive solutions rather than apocalyptic predictions.

So what are Lomborg’s solutions? City A.M.’s Michiel Willems finds out.

There is a lot to do about nuclear energy at the moment. What do you think of nuclear power as the future, especially in light of new technology?