Development vs. Sustainability is a False Choice

Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Environmental Assessment Institute in Denmark and author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist," argues that serious environmentalists should put development ahead of sustainability if sustainability is ever to be an achievable

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August 27, 2002, 9:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech


"The challenge in Johannesburg will be whether we are ready to put development ahead of sustainability. If the United States leads the way, the world may finally find the courage to do so...Energy and other natural resources have become more abundant, not less so...too much of the debate is fixated on reducing [greenhouse gas] emissions without regard to cost... Despite our intuition that we need to do something drastic about global warming, economic analyses show that it will be far more expensive to cut carbon dioxide emissions radically than to pay the costs of adapting to the increased temperatures."

Thanks to Charles Alexander

Monday, August 26, 2002 in The New York Times

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