Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the world’s temperature. He suggests that rather than focusing on ineffective solutions that will cost us trillions of dollars over the coming decades, we should be looking for smarter, more cost-effective approaches (such as massively increasing our commitment to green energy R&D) that will allow us to deal not only with climate change but also with other pressing global concerns, such as malaria and HIV/AIDS. And he considers why and how this debate has fostered an atmosphere in which dissenters are immediately demonized.
Bjr̨n Lomborg Knihy
Bjørn Lomborg je dánsky autor a prezident think-tanku Copenhagen Consensus Center. Vo svojej prelomovej a kontroverznej knihe Tvrdohlavý environmentalista tvrdí, že mnohé nákladné opatrenia prijaté vedcami a politikmi na riešenie globálneho otepľovania budú mať minimálny dopad na rastúcu teplotu sveta. Jeho práca sa zameriava na ekonomické hodnotenie environmentálnych problémov a navrhuje racionálnejšie a efektívnejšie prístupy. Lomborg vyzýva k hlbšiemu zamysleniu sa nad skutočnými nákladmi a prínosmi environmentálnych politík.
