Are electric cars greener than conventional gasoline cars? If so, how much greener? What about the CO2 emissions produced during electric cars’ production? And where does the electricity that powers electric cars come from? Environmental economist Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, examines how environmentally friendly electric cars really are.
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The World Bank says there are now 720 million living in extreme poverty, defined as less than $3/day. To combat poverty, we need jobs, and good industrial jobs require cheap, reliable electricity.
In a normal society, deranged prophets of doom get mocked. In a corrupt society, they get a government grant, or they get elected so they can pass laws banning people from mocking them.
This is a dragon that eats its own tail. The Green revolution kills the green revolution because energy is too expensive. Not to mention that fantasies of weather control attract terrible managers.
The authors argue that these patterns raise questions about the assumption that human-produced CO2 is the dominant driver of global temperature change.
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A global climate, health, or development system that depends on the continuous escalation of crisis narratives is structurally incapable of declaring success. Trump’s decision confronts that reality directly.
Hands-free pass to Islam – attacks Christianity instead.
Kevin Rudd is the super-genius who’s going to save the world: just ask him.
