How the energy crisis can be solved

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

At his recent World Leaders Climate Summit, President Biden repeated his claim that climate change presents an "existential threat."

This pervasive climate alarmism is the culmination of persistent eco-anxiety over the past decades. Already in 1982, the United Nations was predicting that climate change along with other environmental concerns could cause a worldwide “devastation as complete, as irreversible as any nuclear holocaust” by the year 2000. Needless to say, that didn’t happen.

Academic and author Dr Bjorn Lomborg speaks to Talk’s Julia Hartley-Brewer about what a second Donald Trump terms means for climate change and Net Zero policies.