“Taken at face value, doom would not be an irrational reaction to the claims of the climate movement,” says TedNordhaus. But he argues that the outlook is “less terrifying” and “more promising” than activists claim
depicting a fictional Scandinavian girl having a nightmare: an Earth wracked by climate change opens up to swallow her and violent waters threaten to drown her. She wakes up screaming, watches world leaders giving speeches about climate change on the COP15 website, and then videos herself begging the politicians to “please help the world!”A daily newsletter with the best of our journalismBut the proceedings ended in failure. Environmental groups and European officials blamed America.
Taken at face value, doom would not be an irrational reaction to the claims of the climate movement. If planetary catastrophe, societal collapse and perhaps even human extinction are likely , then fatalism is a reasonable response. But the realities of climate change are less terrifying and the global response more promising than the reductive claims of environmental activists might lead people to believe.Deaths around the world from climate-related disasters are at an all-time low.
above pre-industrial levels, precisely when major emitting countries had found a workable framework to limit warming to 2°C, or at least be within shouting distance of it.is implausible . Achieving it would require rebuilding the entire global energy economy within a decade or so.
China and India are large and powerful enough not to be bullied. But other poor countries are not. Finance for even natural gas, the least emitting of all fossil fuels, has dried up across Africa and much of the developing world,From the perspective of fairness, economic development and climate resilience, fossil-fuel infrastructure arguably has the highest value
The costs, predictably, fall on the global poor. Stoked by an apocalyptic panic among the chattering classes in the richest countries in the world, unable to give up fossil fuels domestically or force their emerging economic competitors to do so, Western leaders punch down on the poorest nations in the world.Therein lies the fundamental tension within the climate movement.
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