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Don’t Waste Time Cutting Emissions
- russell 17y agoLomborg argues that, instead of spending a lot of money lowering carbon emissions (30 cents returned for each dollar invested), we should concentrate on research on non-fossil fuel energy ($16 returned for each dollar invested) to push the cost of renewable energy below the cost of non-renewable. He states that China and India are not going to invest in expensive energy while they are catching up with the developing nations. The question in my mind is can we drive the cost of solar and others down fast enough that we can ignore coal? Or will our efforts to cut down carbon emissions be swamped by the developing nations? Personally, I believe we should push hard on research.