Copenhagen Consensus President Bjorn Lomborg joined 'Varney & Co.' to argue that U.N. climate policies punish the world’s poor, warning that costly energy mandates and forced EV adoption ignore economic realities and hinder global development.

Mientras los líderes y personas influyentes se reúnen en Nueva York para la Asamblea General de Naciones Unidas (ONU) y la Semana del Clima, dos visiones incompatibles están a punto de colisionar: las élites del mundo rico obsesionadas con el cambio climático, frente a las naciones en desarrollo que luchan contra la pobreza, el hambre y las enfermedades.
 

Světoví lídři a vlivní lidé se sjíždějí do New Yorku na Valné shromáždění OSN a konferenci Climate Week, kde se střetávají dvě neslučitelné vize: elity z bohatého světa posedlé změnou klimatu a rozvojové země bojující s chudobou, hladem a nemocemi.

Over the past half-century, environmentalists have predicted countless calamities. Their extreme predictions were typically wrong, their draconian countermeasures turned out to be mostly misguided, and we should be grateful we didn’t follow their harmful advice. We need to keep this history in mind as we are inundated with stories of climate Armageddon.

You might have gotten the impression that the Great Barrier Reef—the aquatic wonder off Australia’s coast—is in grave peril. Last month, headlines shouted in unison: Great Barrier Reef suffers worst coral decline on record. Environmental journalists paint a picture of immense devastation driven by climate change.

The payoff in lives and hospital time saved runs at about 100 to 1 per dollar invested, which is a great deal by any standard. Vaccines save millions of lives every year. So it’s worrying that the U.S. government wants to cut funding for a key organization that enables immunization around the world.

Last month, the International Court of Justice issued a sweeping ruling on the legal duties of states to respond to climate change, demanding “deep, rapid and sustained reductions” in emissions and opening the door to lawsuits for climate reparations. The ruling is a landmark moment in international law that deserves more attention than it has gotten: In essence, the United Nations’ highest court has deemed climate inaction a human rights violation and an infringement of international law.

Copenhagen Consensus President Bjorn Lomborg discusses the cost of Democrats' green energy push on 'Fox & Friends.'

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pulled the plug on funding for GAVI, the global vaccine alliance. Every government needs to choose how to spend its own taxpayer money, of course, and the U.S. is far from the only country cutting back on aid. But childhood immunization is actually one of the best ways to make the world stronger and more stable.

Gavi and malaria aid in particular provide incredible returns in social benefits for each dollar spent.