Lomborg: A "Smarter" Way To Deal With Global Warming

Global warming is definitely a problem, and we should definitely do something. But we shouldn't do just anything -- we should do the smart thing. The main difficulty with global warming is that fossil fuels are not only fairly cheap, they also make this world so rich and so good to live in by providing us with all the amenities that we see around us: light, heat, the ability to propel ourselves to many different places. So we aren't going to give up fossil fuels without having a great alternative. Right now there is no good alternative to fossil fuels. And so the Chinese and the Indians and everybody else -- but also the Americans and the Europeans -- will keep on burning a lot of fossil fuels.