WTH Do the California Fires Teach Us About the Need to Invest in Climate Adaptation? Bjorn Lomborg Explains

California has invested tens of billions of dollars in preventing
climate change, billions more than California’s investment in
adapting to the effects of climate change and directly preventing
disasters. And now, the devastation of the recent Los Angeles
wildfires is further proof that governments need to focus on
protecting citizens through cheap and simple investments in
climate adaptation rather than expensive and inefficient
investments in climate change prevention.


Bjorn Lomborg is the president of the Copenhagen Consensus
Center, the former director of the Danish government's
Environmental Assessment Institute, and the author of the
best-selling book The Skeptical Environmentalist (2001). He has
been named one of Time’s 100 most influential people and one of
the UK Guardian’s “50 people who can save the planet.” His latest
book is Best Things First: The 12 Most Efficient Solutions for
the World’s Poorest and Our Global SDG Promises (Copenhagen
Consensus Center, 2023).


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