UN’s summit will again push multi-trillion dollar ‘cures’ that are worse than climate change

As COP 26 wrapped up, Bjorn Lomborg joined Alex Epstein to discuss the many examples of bad thinking that have shaped the conference, including:

- The false portrayal of today’s world as bad and getting worse.

- The failure to consider the costs of reducing CO2 emissions. - The failure to discuss the benefits human beings get from fossil fuels.

- The failure to consider any positive of CO2 emissions.

- The failure to appreciate the power of adapting to climate changes.

Energy prices are soaring, and it’s likely a sign of things to come. The rise can be blamed on a variety of things, including the demand rebound after the lockdowns ended, a drop in renewable electricity output from a lack of wind in Europe during most of 2021, and increasingly costly climate policies. But while the pandemic will end and the wind will blow again, climate policies to achieve “net zero” emissions will keep hiking prices.

Solving warming is about innovation: Lomborg

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 02/03/2011
Reporter: Tony Jones
Bjorn Lomborg is the author of the controversial book The Skeptical Environmentalist and says we are taking the wrong approach to tackling climate change.