Bjorn LomborgVarmennettu tili

"Let's stop emissions" is simple but also absolutely impossible CO₂ emissions are byproducts of billions of people using reliable and cheap energy for heat, cold, food, electricity – all the things that make the world a better place

Nordhaus shows that a moderate, increasing, globally coordinated carbon tax can reduce temperatures – optimally by 0.6°C in 2100 down to 3.5°C Policy costs of $20 trillion will still be outweighed by lower climate costs https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20170046 …

But remember, this is already incredibly challenging (it requires *all* nations to tax all carbon, all at the same pace across the century If not, the policy costs will escalate, making climate policy less effective and possibly net damaging