Expensive climate policy is dead. That’s a big opportunity

Bjorn Lomborg gave a 16-minute keynote presentation to more than 4000 attendents from more than 90 countries at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) Forum in London. Other speakers besides Lomborg included US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, investor Peter Thiel, Canadian psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson, and former Australian prime ministers Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison.

During a recent visit with the Dallas Morning News' editorial board, Bjorn Lomborg urged policymakers to spend money on countering climate change more effectively. Rather than spending on feel-good green projects or urging people to make personal sacrifices such as giving up meat, leaders should approach climate solutions unemotionally and invest in the ideas that will do the most good for the most people.

The latest global climate summit in Poland has generated familiar predictions of doom and disaster from environmental activists. Climate change seems to freeze our capacity for critical thinking: we are too eager to believe the problem is far worse than science shows, and – conversely – that our solutions are far easier than reality dictates.