Riz Khan - Bjorn Lomborg Environment - 23 Jul 07

Riz Khan talks to Bjorn Lomborg, the author of 'The Skeptical Environmentalist' who challenges widely held beliefs that the state of the environment is worsening.

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[ToxenWorm]

Did you even listen to what Bjorn said?

Obviously you didn't because you can't be a rational person and disagree with him. He's probably the closest thing you get to an objective point of view in the envioremental debate.

You have to be a left-winged retard, in order to be so ignorant

[planet7news]

Lomborg Naive?

I think the eco evangelists have shown us all about blinkered almost religious belief in a cause. All Lomborg is saying is there are other problems that could be solved at much less cost than the scare mongering Greenpeace "faithful" would have you believe.

More power to him. I'm looking forward to his new book Cool It, as are friends of the earth no doubt...

[dravreh]

If you wanna live a carbon free life - stop breathing

[linghun]

@mannster21 yes, we only use 0.001% of the worlds energy

[BiomimicryArch]

Bjorn Lomborg is a master of rhetorical and statistical trickery. Those of you that are interested in a critique of his analysis might want to look at the rebuttal I delivered when I opposed him at a major construction industry conference in the UK. You can see my talk on Youtube in three parts (24 mins in total) by writing 'pawlyn' into the search field.

[globe255]

....to avoid poverty first, so they will be able to pay for it. It gives no meaning to say to a poor country hey now we have new costly technology that we need all countries to have if they arent able to pay for it.

[globe255]

Of course he is human centered, because thats the only solution. How can a poor country pay for global warming? or how can they pay for new technology?

Thats simply the reason why he wants to make bigger efforts

[horsie111]

I wish Bjorn Lomborg had spoken as uncompromisingly and aggressively as he did defending his ideas on Tim Sebastian's BBC HARDtalk program. He was so effective that the worthless dropkick leftist, Tim "Hedgehog" Sebastian, had to cut off almost everything he tried to say...

Riz Khan may be a dullard, strategically employed by the International Socialist CNN; but at least he allowed his guest to finish a sentence.

[mannster21]

Again, hes totally human centered. Nothing about preserving the planets biodiversity. Everything is about human needs and comforts. Hes some sort of humanist not an enviromentalist. He totally poo-pooed the 1st caller. And the answer to the 2nd caller is of course reduce human population, thus less humans to consume resources. Its not that complicated. Can the whole world afford to be massively resource consumptive and rich?

[markbotv3]

amen to that

[markbotv3]

what do YOU do? judge not lest ye be judged and you will be judged in the maner that you did the judging. my power bill was less than $20 last month and i only use 14 gallons of gasoline a month...so unless your carbon footprint is less than mine you should keep your judgments to your self. i am holyier than thou art. *points finger at the sinner*