“The economy didn’t burn down, energy prices didn’t soar, the GDP didn’t drop, and unemployment didn’t spike. The economists making these estimates are the true alarmists in the debate.”
– Climate scientist
Andrew Dessler, rejecting cost-benefit analyses when it comes to climate action. The first step towards saving the planet, writes Dessler, is ignoring “economists who have relentlessly downplayed the seriousness of climate change and overstated the costs of solving it.”
