Climate change is real. It comes with costs. Climate policy also comes with costs. The trick is to find a sensible balance. So said compassionate rationalist Bjorn Lomborg in a conversation with former Deputy PM of Australia John Anderson published Friday.
Dr Lomborg, who is President of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, pointed to the fact that the global economy cannot afford to invest in all 169 sustainable development targets within the 17 United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs). Yet among the SDGs are targets that offer significantly superior value for money in terms of social, economic, and environmental return on investment.
Climate-related carbon targets are not among them, unfortunately. For example, Dr Lomborg says if Australia were to somehow be carbon-neutral from today until the end of this century it would barely reduce bushfire risk on the continent assuming all other conditions were equal. But even if it were a pressing priority to be carbon-neutral, it is extremely costly to achieve given current technology. For example ... Read the full op-ed and find a link to the conversation at https://goodtourismblog.com/2020/02/dare-to-share-not-declare-travel-tourism-reality-of-climate-change/