Opinion
UN Climate Week reveals elites’ scorn for the world’s poor
By Bjorn Lomborg
Published Sep. 22, 2025, 7:29 p.m. ET
Here’s a plain fact the elites refuse to accept: Hundreds of trillions of dollars spent on traditional climate policy can only deliver tiny benefits, but devoting just billions to simple, proven policies can transform lives, alleviate poverty, promote health and boost resilience.
This chasm highlights why most of the world perceives rich virtue-signaling elites as disconnected from reality.
The climate activists flooding New York this week ignore decades of failed summits.
Since 1992’s Rio Earth Summit, the renewable share of global energy has risen just two percentage points, from 12% to 14%, despite the world spending over $14 trillion — mostly on ineffectual subsidies.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/22/opinion/un-climate-week-reveals-elites-scorn-for-the-worlds-poor/
