There's also a new review of Lomborg's conservative shell game in the latest NY Review of Books by B. McKibben. Don't worry, Bjorn, the first world can ignore malaria and sanitary drinking water for the world's poor (like always) AFTER we have cut carbon emissions to required levels.
Saving the planet's climate is, um, a somewhat different goal than helping the desperately poor humans of the world. Absolute, barefaced manipulation and diversion, the usual conservative shit-stew.
Plus, the fact that an utterly irreversible tipping point on THIS particular global problem is about to reached (and not say, malaria) seems to elude the Lomborg "logic".
One of the chief motivations for Rightist opposition to efforts to stem global warming is simply to defeat hated lib'ruls, not that the science or recommendations are actually controversial. The ordinary Movement Conservative passionately wants to defeat the hated left and its "envirofascists".
The idiot cogs of Conservatism (think peter) have been cutting off their nose to spite their face for going on twenty years, why stop now?
Posted by euzoius at October 9, 2007 06:12 AMIt's global warming, not "climate change." Frank Luntz is credited with encouraging anti-global warming conservatives to use the "climate change" frame instead of global warming, because "climate change" frame obscures the severity of the global warming problem and lessens the urgency to act: After all, the climate is always “changing,” so what is the big deal?
Posted by fafnir at October 9, 2007 07:21 AM