{"id":203,"date":"2007-08-24T14:17:59","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T18:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2007\/08\/24\/how-not-to-manage-risk\/"},"modified":"2007-08-24T14:17:59","modified_gmt":"2007-08-24T18:17:59","slug":"how-not-to-manage-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2007\/08\/24\/how-not-to-manage-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"How Not to Manage Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Today&#8217;s post is by Jon Anda. He is President of the Environmental Markets Network, an organization within Environmental Defense focused on legislation to create an efficient carbon market.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bjorn Lomborg, who wrote the infamous &#8220;The Skeptical Environmentalist,&#8221; has a book coming out this fall called &#8220;Cool It.&#8221; He says we should spend minimal resources to fight global warming.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote a guest post for Grist yesterday about why his approach is wrong. Here&#8217;s a key point from it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lomborg&#8217;s preference is to leave future generations more cash and less technology. Our grandchildren can easily go back to burning coal if climate turns out to be manageable. But how easily can they spend the extra cash if the Greenland ice sheet is irreversibly melting?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/gristmill.grist.org\/story\/2007\/8\/23\/115040\/520\">here&#8217;s the whole post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s post is by Jon Anda. He is President of the Environmental Markets Network, an organization within Environmental Defense focused on legislation to create an efficient carbon market. 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