{"id":3191,"date":"2006-11-07T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T08:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3191"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:56:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:56:29","slug":"more-climate-change-scepticism-lomborg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3191","title":{"rendered":"More climate change scepticism (Lomborg)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lomborg on the Stern Report <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionjournal.com\/extra\/?id=110009182\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have been a great fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lomborg.com\/books.htm\">The Sceptical Environmentalist<\/a>. It was understanding Peak Oil which shifted my position &#8211; not least because in 1999 Lomborg argued that the oil supply was so healthy, there would be no peak, and therefore the price of oil would remain below $20 until 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Ho ho.<\/p>\n<p>However, I do think he makes one very good point, which is good irrespective of his arguments about global warming: &#8220;Spending just a fraction of this figure&#8211;$75 billion&#8211;the U.N. estimates that we could solve all the world&#8217;s major basic problems. We could give everyone clean drinking water, sanitation, basic health care and education right now.&#8221; And we don&#8217;t do that because, frankly, our system is profoundly wicked and about to suffer God&#8217;s just judgement (see <a href=\"http:\/\/merseacofe.securio.net\/index.cfm\/id\/25\">my talks<\/a> for further details \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>The real trouble is that trying to capture the problem of global warming (which is itself only one symptom of the more fundamental problem of exponential growth in a finite system) through using economics is like trying to ward off demons by invoking satan. It&#8217;s just not going to bat on your side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lomborg on the Stern Report here. I have been a great fan of The Sceptical Environmentalist. It was understanding Peak Oil which shifted my position &#8211; not least because in 1999 Lomborg argued that the oil supply was so healthy, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3191\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-Pt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6789,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions\/6789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}