Climate Change: A Perilous Path

Evidence is growing that relatively cheap policies like climate engineering and non-carbon energy research could effectively prevent suffering from global warming, both in the short and long term. Unfortunately, political leaders gathering at a special meeting of the United Nations in New York this week will focus on a very different response. Full Story »

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Jim Lang
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by Jim Lang - Sep. 21, 2009

Lomborg presents the economist's view of how to combat global warming, maximizing benefit vs cost while blithely assuming that the speculative climate engineering and research into nonemitting forms of energy will pan out. Truly an optimist's view with no plan B. Nevertheless, along the way he makes some valuable moral observations.

It is amoral to build a dam to avoid flooding in 100 years, when the people living beside that dam are starving today.

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