On Earth Day 2013, Bjorn Lomborg told us his wishes in this op ed in The Globe and Mail.
He points out that:
"German taxpayers have poured $130-billion into subsidizing solar panels, but ultimately by the end of the century, this will postpone global warming by a trivial 37 hours. The electric car is even less efficient: its production consumes a vast amount of fossil fuels, and mostly it utilizes fossil fuel electricity to be recharged. Even if the US did reach the lofty goal of one million electric cars on the road by 2015 (costing taxpayers more than $7.5 billion), global warming would be postponed by a miniscule 30 minutes."
I agree. There must be a better way than handing tax dollars to governments to waste.
The key to encouraging concern for the environment is wealth creation. Unfortunately, most "solutions" proffered by environmentalists make wealth creation more difficult for poor countries.
