Bjorn LomborgVarmennettu tili

"We cannot legislate and spend our way out of catastrophic global warming," and "emissions are only the most prominent aspect of a broader ecological crisis." Bracing, virtuosic climate skepticism from @outsidadgitator: https://communemag.com/between-the-devil-and-the-green-new-deal/ …

"When the survival of millions or even billions hangs in the balance, as it surely does when it comes to climate change, a few dozen death villages might seem a particularly good deal, a green deal, a new deal..."

"But climate change doesn’t resolve into a single trolley-car problem. Rather, it’s a planet-spanning tangle of switchyards, with mass death on every track."

"Counting emissions within national boundaries, in other words, is like counting calories but only during breakfast and lunch. If going clean in the US makes other places dirtier, then you’ve got to add that to the ledger."

"The problem with biofuels is that growing them requires land otherwise devoted to crops, or carbon-absorbing wilderness. They are among the least dense of power sources. You would need a dozen acres to fill the tank of a single intercontinental jet."

"To replace current US energy consumption with renewables, you’d need to devote at least 25–50% of the US landmass to solar, wind, and biofuels, according to the estimates made by Vaclav Smil, the grand doyen of energy studies."