Having worked in the field of sustainable investing in the past that I am glad to be now out of, I find the relative silence of reactions here refreshing. You must have clearly struck a nerve Mr. Lomborg, thank you for succinctly describing the developing world's views on climate change, I am a believer in climate change but do not agree with the oECD, UN, or Western POVs on course of action that place additional burden in already impoverished nations.



Like any economic shock, the rich must be able to absorb the shock and demonstrate scalability of new solutions, rather than these people being used as guinea pigs. This means industrialized countries historically responsible for pollution must take on the burden, the environment cannot be a negotiating tool.



Sadly, the reality I saw with my own eyes is that US "environmentalists" are ready to force down their agenda without any due concern for developing nations by scaring people about the end of the planet. Fortunately (or unfortunately), most marginalized of the world are so disconnected from this conversation that such threats won't make an ounce of difference. It's ultimately a shame that action on climate change follows the same old patterns of North/South divide and that leadership is lacking. Europe valiantly tried only to scale back recently. If there was another major power that was involved in this process, could the end result have been different?



My bosses were right to warn me about you, you are a rebel amongst those whose vision lies locally and not globally. Glad to have found this article, and hilarious that you are being framed as a right-winger. A gay, vegetarian conservative? Considering how much I'd disagree with so-called liberals on climate change, I'd gladly welcome a "conservative" like you.