Get the facts straight
Lomborg on Australian radio show 2GB July 20, 2011 Wednesday Length: 9:02
Published by Now! Lebanon
Clearing the air on climate change Talking to Bjorn Lomborg Sarah Lynch, December 14, 2010
Published by Project Syndicate
From their ivory towers, nearly 240 academics have declared that economic growth is bad for Europe and the planet. In two months, they and global supporters of the “no-growth economy” have held conferences in Mexico City, Malmö, and Brussels.
Their efforts herald a return to an earlier, thoroughly debunked form of alarmist environmentalism that is detached from reality and disdainful of billions of the world’s people.
The campaigners claim we must stop economic growth because the planet is crossing environmental boundaries, and inequality between humans is increasing.
Published by Financial Times
For a considerable time, it has been claimed that we must fix climate change immediately or all will be lost.
As long ago as 1989, the director of the United Nations environment programme stated: "We shall win - or lose - the climate struggle in the first years of the 1990s. The issue is as urgent as that." ...