Getting our "Global" priorities straight

There are much better things we can do than to "combat global warming".

Although I disagree with Bjorn Lomborg about the cause of "global warming", it is critical to understand his analysis if we are to avoid the calamity that the True Believers want to impose on us all.

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"...In the U.S. each year, 42,600 people die and 2.8 million are injured from traffic accidents. If we were to lower speed limits to five miles an hour, almost no one would die. But automobile transportation is important to our economy and our people, so we work on seat belts, speed limits and better highways rather than 5 mph speed limits. Like traffic accidents, 'global warming is strongly caused by people, and we have the technology to reduce it to zero,"'so we could curtail our use of fossil fuels and thus sharply reduce global warming. But Mr. Lomborg points out that 'the benefits from moderately using fossil fuels' for 'light, heat, food, communication and travel' vastly outweigh the cost to our society.

'Cool It' makes the case for helping the world's individuals rather than the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change goal of reorienting our lifestyles away from consumption and individual ownership and toward free time instead of wealth.

'Our ultimate goal,' Mr. Lomborg says, 'is not to reduce greenhouse gasses or global warming per se but to improve the quality of life and the environment.'"