Energy

2014-02-08 Is it fair to use climate policies to keep poor people poor? It is great to electrify Africa. But not with renewables. If Obama spends the next $10 billion on gas electrification, he can help lift 90 million people out of energy poverty. If he only uses renewables, the same $10 billion can help just 20 million-27 million people. Using renewables, we will deliberately choose to leave more than 60 million people in darkness and poverty. 

Acceso a energía, problema medioambiental 2014-01-17, BJORN LOMBORG Milenio, Mexico.  Si queremos ayudar al mundo, lo primero es lograr que este recurso llegue a más población, y no solo en la minúscula porción de un panel solar, sino en la de los fiables y conocidos combustibles fósiles de bajo costo ¿Cuál es el mayor problema medioambiental del mundo? Muchas personas bienintencionadas apuntan a un calentamiento global, pero eso es totalmente incorrecto. Es más bien la contaminación atmosférica.

2014-01-03, BJORN LOMBORG 

Børsen, Denmark. 

Den grønne drøm blev et mareridt, som miljøforkæmpere fortryder 

I december kunne EU være blevet den første større politiske aktør til at bremse stigningen af brugen af...

O poder para desenvolver 2014-01-01, BJORN LOMBORG  Jornal de Negocios, Portugal.

2013-12-17, The Telegraph

2013-12-12 Trade-offs are an inherent part of life. We all recognize this from our private budgets. To fix the roof, we may have to accept a less extravagant summer vacation. When we pick a cheaper wine, we can splurge on dessert.  Trade-offs also pervade environmental policy: Cutting more of one pollutant, for example, leaves fewer resources to address other issues. For example, coal is phenomenally polluting, but it also provides for cheap and reliable power, which drives development.

2013-12-04 THERE’S a lot of hand-wringing about our warming planet, but billions of people face a more immediate problem: They are desperately poor, and many cook and heat their homes using open fires or leaky stoves that burn dirty fuels like wood, dung, crop waste and coal. About 3.5 million of them die prematurely each year as a result of breathing the polluted air inside their homes — about 200,000 more than the number who die prematurely each year from breathing polluted air outside, according to a study by the World Health Organization. (...) 

2013-11-11 Subsidizing first-generation, inefficient green energy might make well-off people feel good about themselves, but it won't transform the energy market. Yet when inefficient green subsidies are criticized, their defenders can be relied on to point out that the world subsidizes fossil fuels even more heavily. But the misinformation surrounding energy subsidies is considerable, and it helps keep the world from enacting sensible policy.

2013-11-06 One of the longest-running big picture debates is between optimists and pessimists  arguing the state of the world. Pessimists  have constantly painted a dystopian future from Malthus and Jevons to the 1972 book Limits to Growth. Optimists have cheerfully pointed to how everything is getting better. 

2013-08-31 Aktivister har ødelagt et markforsøg med genmodificeret Golden Rice i Filippinerne. Med hjælp fra velmenende, men vildledte organisationer som Greenpeace, ødelægger de potentielt muligheden for at forebygge 680.000 dødsfald hvert år. Det er moralsk uforsvarligt.