TV Interview with Lomborg on SunNews Network, Canada

COPENHAGEN – For the better part of a decade, I have upset many climate activists by pointing out that there are far better ways to stop global warming than trying to persuade governments to force or bribe their citizens into slashing their reliance on fuels that emit carbon dioxide. What especially bugs my critics is the idea that cutting carbon is a cure that is worse than the disease – or, to put it in economic terms, that it would cost far more than the problem it is meant to solve. “How can that possibly be true?” they ask. “After all, we are talking about the end of the world.

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58 BJORN LOMBORG
For taking the black and white out of climate politics.
Director, Copenhagen Consensus Center | Czech Republic

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The sceptical environmentalist In the Going Green feature Jenny chats to international author and climate change skeptic Bjorn Lomborg. Time Magazine declared the founder of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2004 and recently Foreign Policy’s listed him in their Top 100 Global Thinkers.