Climate change is a real, man made problem, 'but we should fix it smartly'
Bestselling author Bjorn Lomborg says Climate change is a real problem, its man made and something we should fix but we should fix it smartly and were not doing that right now. Were actually employing very costly policies that will do almost no good even 100 years from now, Mr Lomborg told Sky news host Chris Kenny. And thats mostly because were so scared that we just throw everything and the kitchen sink at this instead of looking to what will actually fix climate change. Mr Lomborg said one of the most expensive climate change remedies was subsidizing electric cars. Right now, were paying something between 10 and 100 times too much for every ton of CO2 we cut and its basically subsidized to rich people to drive around and feel very virtuous, he said. All these subsidies that were spending are basically going towards cutting carbon emissions trivially. The idea here again is if you want to fix climate change, you really need to make sure everyone can cut carbon emissions in the long run. Thats about innovation, about making green energy so cheap that not just rich well-meaning Australians, but everyone, the Chinese the Indians and everyone in Africa can afford to deal with this. Read More Our Apps