Lomborg on Climate Policies
Bjorn who believes in the experts, the validity of IPCC and their findings.
Smart ways to deal with the conditions that the GCM models predict, Bjorn diverges from the AGW mantra. His policy analysis is indicative of the thoughts process that one could take if one takes the AGW conditions and asks serious questions about what to do. It is not alarmist, but becomes closer to the skeptics' position of using economic growth to the advantage of dealing with any impact of a few degrees C.
His position is better detailed in his book: Cool It.
This video was done in 2013, and the video captured in Australia. Views in Australia have shifted away from AGW in the meantime.
Also he is clearly in this video trying to reach the audience by first not raising their resistance by talking negatively about AGW.
We should revisit occasionally what the proper role of government is. As the constitution was a good sense of direction, we need a core set of principles to add in order to deal with the future.
So many want to engineer society, remove risk, assist certain groups, rather than let individuals thrive and raise communities. Why?
Is Democracy where we all "get it good and hard" or is it the best means to a free society?
Should we roll with the special interests, or make the government achieve its proper role, what is that role, and how to do this?
When do deficits and governments become too large?
Government is becoming more elitist while trying to sell corrections to problems it created, what makes this possible?
This could also be inserted into the field above, or erased
Currently as a society, we are having a most difficult time discussing political issues. What is driving this? And why a rebirth in political culture would be a good thing.
Are "markets" dead as some would conjecture? Or is free enterprise what got us here?
At the heart of economics there are several possible economic schools of thought, the essence of these schools of thought and how they relate to our lives.
