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Cool it : Why we need to tackle global warming smartly

Bjørn Lomborg

Comments by : Desmond McNeill

Global warming is real, but it is often presented one-sided and in exaggerated form. This leads to bad policies that will do little to tackle the warming at extremely high cost, as the Kyoto protocol and the new EU promises. We need smarter solutions focused on getting long-term solutions like cost-competitive renewables. And finally, we should remember, that if we really want to help the world, there are many other and better things we could focus on first, like malnutrition, free trade, vaccines, education, agricultural technology, education etc.

Bjorn Lomborg is the author of the bestsellers Cool It and The Skeptical Environmentalist. He is PhD in Political Science, presently an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School, and in 2004 he started the Copenhagen Consensus, a conference of top economists who come together to prioritize the best solutions for the world’s greatest challenges.

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