Funny, how one part of entitled global elites loves, just loves to accuse the other part of entitled global elites of being nothing but nefarious, entitled global elites. Some future funny man (or woman, God forbid I would be judged a sexist) will write up the collected works on global warming debate and produce a book that will tickle the funny bone of many generations to come. Particularly if the world climate does follow the most likely path and slides back into an ice age (Milankovich cycles, anyone?).



I am sorry to say, but Prof Sachs ,together with a large portion of scientific global elites, have been engaging in a systematic campaign of global propaganda for so long that they might have even begun to believe it? In that, they may just resemble Donald Trump who increasingly seems to fervently believe in his own mental constructs MS13 and Mexican Rapists, and the like. Speaking of political cynicism getting away from you.



Prof Sachs, being an economist by training, has no excuse here. None. While climate modelling will forever remain an opaque, likely impossible science, simply counting adverse weather events is not. It is the most basic statistics that even an economist must be able to do. And this simple exercise does lead today to some unequivocal conclusions: nothing has been increasing (or decreasing) beyond statistical fluctuations. Not droughts, not floods, not hurricanes, not tornadoes. No nothing. Losses might be increasing because people build where they shouldn't (if they wanted to avoid losses), and dumb insurance industry, aided and abated by governments, keeps rewarding their bad judgment. Epic fires get started by reckless people ,and there are more of them, and it only takes one. Houses get burned down and people die because houses get built in areas prone to fire. Areas well known to be prone to fire before whole subdivisions goe built there.



Can we focus on the real problems of the real world, before frightened and confused masses choose fascism over democracy, in the world full of nukes? Please? If fate handed you the floor, do endeavor to use it wisely, and for public good?



Few facts, prof Sachs. The world population more than doubled in my lifetime. In some places, like the Middle East, it quadrupled (where would these wars be coming from?, hint, hint). To cut and paste Western Civilization upon this population the global oil production would have to double if we want to match the EU use, quadruple if we want to match the North American use. Do you think it can? Get to work if you are an Economist, because it is kind of a pressing question. If it can't, we need substitutes. We need to find ways in which markets stimulate substitutes instead of balancing supply and demand through persistent poverty. The political right will always find ideological justification for the latter, which can persist for centuries, just like divine rights of the kings.



As an Economist, why would you not focus on that? To be a little pompous here, God gave you the public floor. When you face Him, what will you have to say for yourself?