U.N. Climate-Change Alarms Cast Little Light on Heat

Air quality has improved dramatically in rich countries over the past century. Yet air pollution is still a huge problem, especially in the developing world. It kills about 7 million people each year, accounting for one out of every eight deaths globally. But the most deadly air pollution comes from inside people's houses, because 2.8 billion people still use firewood, dung and coal for cooking and keeping warm, breathing polluted air inside their homes every day.

2013-06-18 COPENHAGEN – We often hear how the world as we know it will end, usually through ecological collapse. Indeed, more than 40 years after the Club of Rome released the mother of all apocalyptic forecasts, The Limits to Growth, its basic ideas are still with us. But time has not been kind. Limits to Growth warned humanity in 1972 that devastating collapse was just around the corner. But, while we have seen financial panics since then, there have been no real shortages or productive breakdowns. Instead, the resources generated by human ingenuity remain far ahead of human consumption.

Interview in Danish. Det er for dyrt at reducere CO2-udledningen med de nuværende teknologier. Derfor skal vi forske mere, siger Bjørn Lomborg. Nej, for den teknologiske udvikling kommer, når markedet er i gang, siger Frank Rosager fra Xergi A/S. BL interview in Vaekst 2008-4 Nov.pdf