“Politicians are spending hundreds of billions of dollars and keeping consumers from the cars they want for virtually no climate benefit.” That’s the bottom line of Bjørn Lomborg’s assessment of electric cars. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, the president of the Copenhagen Consensus says: “The climate effect of our electric-car efforts in the 2020s…
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Bjørn Lomborg: Worry Less about Climate Change, More about Policies
Bjørn Lomborg, Danish environmentalist, scholar, and author of False Alarm, is a weekly columnist for the Wall Street Journal as the Glasgow environmental summit (COP-26) approaches in November. Here are some recent highlights: Americans don’t want to pay a lot for climate change. “A recent Washington Post survey found that a majority of Americans would…