“The two things you need to know about the Paris agreement are, one, it is not going to do very much to tackle climate [change]…and it is incredibly costly.” So says Bjorn Lomborg, the president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and author of The Skeptical Environmentalist. Make no mistake, the Danish scientist believes climate change is happening and that human activity is the main cause. But as Lomborg stressed during an interview with Reason’s Nick Gillespie, the Kyoto-Paris approach is a terrible way to tackle the problem and the US was right to withdraw from the treaty.
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