Innovation not global regulation will save the planet
Story by Bjorn Lomborg • 1d
At the 2015 Paris climate summit, world leaders made a promise to slash carbon emissions. Despite policy efforts to achieve that vow, 2023 emissions set another record high.
At the same summit, a second agreement generated less fanfare: a pledge to double investment in green energy research and development. That promise has also been broken – and the consequences are far-reaching.
Innovation has always helped humanity respond to major challenges. In response to the famines of the 1950s and 1960s, a small group of researchers delivered innovative breakthroughs that made seeds produce radically more food per hectare. The miracle of the Green Revolution saved billions of lives. When Los Angeles air pollution became nearly unbearable in the 1960s, innovation again came to the rescue when the low-cost catalytic converter cut vehicle pollution.
Innovation fixed these problems without onerous sacrifice: we didn’t respond to famine by limiting food, or fix pollution by driving less.
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