A new pragmatism is infusing the climate debate in the West, driven by voters weary of soaring energy bills and annoyed by ...

Perhaps not all aspects of having a green thumb are so "green" after all, according to a recent article published in The Washington Post. "The trucks that transport plants spew carbon emissions, ...

In 2001, Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg burst onto the international scene with his bestselling and controversial book The Skeptical Environmentalist. The onetime member of Greenpeace said ...

In 2001, Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg burst onto the international scene with his bestselling and controversial book The Skeptical Environmentalist. The onetime member of Greenpeace said ...

It may not come as a surprise that in much of the developed world, money spent is not necessarily money used well. We have done podcasts on the ideological and political dangers of bad development ...

Writing in the Wall Street Journal on March 11, Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, documented that electric automobiles are not the least bit environmentally friendly. Lomborg ...

Just one month into the job and President Donald Trump is making big changes in government. That includes energy policy, which is vital for the economy. Trump has to do a couple of things, Bjorn ...

Vaccines are a vital tool that saves millions of lives annually. Concerningly, the U.S. government wants to cut funding for a key organization that saves lives worldwide through immunization. Amid ...

Björn Lomborg and Carl Pope, two leading commentators on environment policy, recently debated the future of environmental activism in the July/August issue of Foreign Policy. Lomborg is best known as ...

As we set resolutions to achieve personal goals and give back, the end of the year is a time to envision the positive changes we can bring to the world in the next 12 months. Globally, all countries ...

The meaningful exchange of truly diverse ideas and perspectives has withered over recent decades. Unorthodox thinking is increasingly trashed or disregarded, even as the chattering class’s fear- and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lomborg went on to create the Copenhagen Consensus, a think tank that applies cost-benefit analysis to problems facing the global ...