Fine and dandy, but this guy sounds kooky...
"By the U.N.'s own scenarios, everyone [in poor nations] will be at least as rich as we are today in the developed world in 2100...Imagine if you were a rich Chinese or a rich Rwandan or a rich Bolivian in 2100..."
The Red Chinese signed Kyoto but announced they're not going to cut a damned thing.
No, Bjorn Lomberg is not kooky. He is a well-respected scientist who has dared to put good science ahead of Politically Correct Science. He is of course hated by the Greenies -- the Truth is often hard for them to swallow. But how refreshing.
Yeah...ex-Greenpeace but definitely not conservative. Still, it's a start.
Read his book and then judge for yourself.
Lomborg is a helluva courageous guy and far from kooky. He has been attacked mercilessly by his former compadres on the left since 1997, when he decided to take economist Julian Simon up on his challenge to actually test the doomsday predictions of the environmental left to find out whether they were true. The book that resulted, The Skeptical Environmentalist, Measuring the Real State of the World, though heavy sledding, is a must read for anyone who wants to debate environmental issues armed with the facts.
Lomborg is an associate professor of statistics in Denmark, and as such is well equipped to wade through decades of faulty data concerning the state of the environment. The book is chock full of sane arguments about the proper way to proceed to make a better world.