90 Miles From Tyranny : ‘We Are Not Learning’: Bjorn Lomborg Says Politicians Hide Behind Climate Change To Duck ‘Responsibility’ For ‘Failures’

Sunday, August 20, 2023

‘We Are Not Learning’: Bjorn Lomborg Says Politicians Hide Behind Climate Change To Duck ‘Responsibility’ For ‘Failures’


Bjorn Lomborg said Friday that politicians were blaming climate change for disasters like the wildfires on Maui to duck “responsibility” for “failures” in addressing them.

Democratic Gov. Josh Green of Hawaii blamed climate change for the deadly wildfire that destroyed many buildings in the town of Lahaina, killing at least 96 people as of Monday, according to the New York Times. The West Maui Land Company accused M. Kaleo Manuel, an official with the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR), of delaying a response to a request to use water to refill reservoirs used by the Maui Fire Department to fight the wildfire, Hawaii News Now reported.

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“You maybe shouldn’t have a lot of grasses that will just burn a lot. You should adopt better building codes, not what Governor Green did, namely put it on hold because he wants cheaper buildings and you shouldn’t just have one exit road, you should have better firebreaks,” Lomborg told “America Reports” co-anchor John Roberts. “And possibly the most important thing is, you should inform people. You should not have a guy that actually decides not to run the alarm because he worries that people might misunderstand it. Most people weren’t informed.”

“And this is the crucial bit when you talk about climate change: When everybody blames climate, which is a very, very small part of the whole puzzle, you take away responsibility from all these failures,” Lomborg added. “And that’s, of course, what you really need to focus on if you are going to avoid the next fire.”

Herman Andaya, the director of the Maui Emergency Management Agency, resigned Thursday after the agency came under fire for not activating emergency sirens to warn people of the fires. The state reportedly bogged down an effort to improve electric infrastructure that would have addressed overgrown non-native grass, according to the Wall Street Journal, one of a series of decisions that may have worsened the severity of...



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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousSunday, August 20, 2023

    And blame the power company for not instantly killing power to downed lines as other companies do. Or ignoring repairs and maintenance while focusing on renewables and equity. And let’s not forget that the natives are lazy and sloppy and slow, with the biggest victim chip on their shoulders ever, far worse than the feral hood rats. And the whole place is super leftist, everyone wanting endless handouts from the haoles they detest. So mismanagement is a given, from government and industry.

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  2. JGMonday, August 21, 2023

    The energy company in Hawaii did not keep up the grid on Maui just lie the one in California did in Northern California that caused the fires in Paradise, CA.

    Overall in the USA the electric grid needs to be updated. The push for wind farms and solar farms has stopped the push for grid updates. The problem is that solar and wind farms cannot keep up with electric demand that is required by the USA. Solar and wind farms also lead to extra electric grids.

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  3. AnonymousMonday, August 21, 2023

    JG is correct on his comment. Democrats have run amuck on their global warming crap thus creating conditions for hazards such has the fires, wait for the flooding to hit L.A county and surrounding areas. Nothing the democrats have done has made America stronger internally or in the world.

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