Incorrigible Lomborg: Defending the right of rich people to pollute

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The Disingenuous Environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg has once again celebrated a public epiphany on climate change, bringing him. once again, to the conclusion that the globe is warming, that humans are to blame and that we – especially we rich people – shouldn’t do anything aboutย it.

In Lomborg’s latest feint, he suckered some reporter at London’s Financial Times into reporting that he has broken common cause with the โ€œclimate scepticsโ€ and called for an a global agreement on climate change in this December’s Kyoto negotiations inย Copenhagen.

But if you read the details, his position is the same as ever: that it would be a โ€œmistakeโ€ to try to get rich countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Lomborg’s choice is to concentrate on every other thing – and especially to think about ignoring the problem in the short term, putting our energies into adaptation and โ€œweighing up whether emission cuts are cheaper to do now orย later.โ€

This is insincere drivel, typical of everything that Lomborg has been saying about climate change for years. He has positioned himself as an โ€œenvironmentalistโ€ – as someone who acknowledges the danger of climate change. But he has then built carefully contrived arguments that totally ignore the cumulative nature of the climate change threat. His โ€œlet’s-do’nothing-soonโ€ strategy also serves perfectly the agenda of the big energy producers – and the think tanks that so frequently hire Lomborg as a guest speaker – all of whom want to maintain the profitable status quo, leaving the problem to be solved by developing nations or by futureย generations.

There is nothing new in this โ€œnewโ€ position. It’s straight out of the Exxon playbook and the Financial Times should be embarrassed to have been led by the nose to reporting this as if it is a legitimateย update.

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