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Conrad Black: The high cost of climate alarmism

The world has spent $16 trillion fighting climate change with little to show for it

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The premier defector from, and debunker of, the “Green Terror,” which holds that climate change is an existential challenge to the continuation of life on earth, is probably Bjorn Lomborg, president of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre and former director of the Danish government’s Environmental Assessment Institute. He has been a prominent climate change skeptic for years, and has roiled the waters by pointing out the mistaken warnings of climate alarmists. Many of them predicted the onset of unlivable circumstances in much of the world long before now, as a result of unrestrained carbon use.

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His latest controversial contribution to the subject came earlier this month, when he explained that at least $16 trillion has been spent in the last 20 years on the green transition. Citing this fact, American columnist and economist Stephen Moore argued that not a single life has been, or will be, saved by what he called “this shameful and colossal misallocation of human resources.” Moore also claims that countless lives in relatively underdeveloped countries have been squandered or shortened by the withholding of affordable energy.

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