The High Cost of Green

openhagen Consensus President Bjorn Lomborg provides insight into President Biden’s expected climate plan.

Lomborg discusses the research presented in the book "Best Things First" on television, radio and podcasts around the globe. Watch his interview Julia Hartley-Brewer.

2013-10-16

COPENHAGEN – For centuries, optimists and pessimists have argued over the state of the world. Pessimists see a world where more people means less food, where rising demand for resources means depletion and war, and, in recent decades, where boosting production capacity means more pollution and global warming. One of the current generation of pessimists’ sacred texts, The Limits to Growth, influences the environmental movement to this day.