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(Foundational) Energy and Environmental Policy

One Nuclear War Can Ruin the Whole Climate AA

By Ted Nordhaus and Mark Lynas - May 15, 2025

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By Ted Nordhaus and Mark Lynas – Nuclear winter, by contrast, would destroy civilization beyond repair within months or years. Yet unlike climate change, which has preoccupied activists for decades, it is largely ignored.
Conflicts between nuclear-armed adversaries remind us that no other risk to human societies remotely rivals nuclear warfare. Read More

Be Afraid of Nuclear War, Not Climate Change AA

By Bjorn Lomborg - March 29, 2022

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By Bjorn Lomborg – … the global elite has an unhealthy obsession with climate change…. First, it has distracted the Western world from real geopolitical threats. …the United Nations…whose main purpose is ensuring world peace—was focused instead on “climate catastrophe,” … This at a time when nuclear weapons are posing the biggest risk of literal mutually assured destruction in half a century….Second, the narrow focus on immediate climate objectives undermines future prosperity…the best economic estimates … all show that the total impact of unmitigated climate change—would be … less than a 4% hit to global GDP by the end of the century. Read More