Environment

We constantly hear that electric cars are the future—cleaner, cheaper and better. But if they’re so good, why does California need to ban gasoline-powered cars? Why does the world spend $30 billion a year subsidizing electric ones?

It’s easy to believe that life on Earth is getting ever-worse. The media highlight one catastrophe after another and make terrifying predictions. With a torrent of doom and gloom about climate change and the environment, it’s understandable why many people — especially the young — genuinely believe the world is about to end.

It’s easy to believe that life on Earth is getting ever-worse. The media highlight one catastrophe after another and make terrifying predictions. With a torrent of doom and gloom about climate change and the environment, it’s understandable why many people — especially the young — genuinely believe the world is about to end.

La hipocresía del mundo rico con respecto a los combustibles fósiles se pone de manifiesto en su respuesta a la crisis energética mundial tras la invasión rusa a Ucrania. Mientras los países ricos del G7 exhortan a los pobres del mundo a utilizar sólo energías renovables por motivos climáticos, Europa y Estados Unidos piden a las naciones árabes que aumenten la producción de petróleo. Alemania está reabriendo centrales energéticas de carbón, mientras que España e Italia están aumentando la producción de gas de África.

The disconnect between the global elite and the real world is growing by the day. Most people are worn down by the pandemic, food and energy price hikes and general inflation, and worried about recession. Yet the chattering classes are jetting into conferences at Davos or Aspen to declare that our biggest and most immediate threats are climate change, environmental disasters and biodiversity loss.

Rikka maailma vastuses ülemaailmsele energiakriisile pärast Venemaa sissetungi Ukrainasse on selgelt näha silmakirjalikkust fossiilkütuste suhtes. Kui jõukad G7 riigid manitsevad maailma vaeseid kasutama kliimaprobleemide tõttu ainult taastuvenergiat, anuvad Euroopa ja USA Araabia riikidelt naftatootmise laiendamist, kirjutab Copenhagen Consensuse president Bjorn Lomborg.

The disconnect between the global elite and the real world is growing by the day. Most people are worn down by the pandemic, food and energy price hikes and general inflation, and worried about recession. Yet the chattering classes are jetting into conferences at Davos or Aspen to declare that our biggest and most immediate threats are climate change, environmental disasters and biodiversity loss.

La costosissima crociata anti-emissioni finisce per aggravare crisi come fame, povertà, energia. Proprio quelle che dovremmo affrontare per prime. Olanda e Sri Lanka moniti da non ignorare

La costosissima crociata anti-emissioni finisce per aggravare crisi come fame, povertà, energia. Proprio quelle che dovremmo affrontare per prime. Olanda e Sri Lanka moniti da non ignorare

President Biden enthusiastically describes his administration's new Inflation Reduction Act as "the most significant legislation in history to tackle the climate crisis." Curiously though, neither officials nor media praising the IRA are stating the actual climate impact of spending $369 billion on the bill's climate provisions.