And for what?<\/p>\n Arguably, not a single life has been or will be saved by this shameful and colossal misallocation of human resources.<\/p>\n The war on safe and abundant fossil fuels has cost countless lives<\/a> in poor countries and made those countries poorer by blocking affordable energy<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Since the global warming crusade started some 30 years ago<\/a>, the temperature of the planet has not been altered by one-tenth of a degree \u2014 as even the alarmists will admit.<\/p>\n In other words, $16 trillion has been spent \u2014 a lot of people got very, very rich<\/a> off the government largesse<\/a> \u2014 but there is not a penny of measurable payoff<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n But it\u2019s much worse than that. In economics, there is a concept called opportunity cost: What could we have done<\/a> with $16 trillion to make the world better off?<\/em><\/p>\n What if the $16 trillion had been spent<\/a> on clean water for poor countries? Preventing avoidable deaths from diseases like malaria? Building schools in African villages to end illiteracy? Bringing reliable and affordable electric power to the more than 1 billion people who still lack access? Curing cancer?<\/p>\n Many millions of lives could have been saved.<\/strong><\/p>\n We could have lifted millions more out of poverty<\/a>. The benefits of speeding up the race for a cure for cancer could have added tens of millions of additional years of life, with an economic value in the tens of trillions of dollars.<\/p>\n Instead, we effectively poured $16 trillion down the drain<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n For this reason, it is important that we identify the green \u201cclimate change\u201d derangement syndrome as perhaps the most inhumane political movement in history.<\/p>\n Read rest at Epoch Times<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n![\"burning](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatechangedispatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/burning-money-1.jpg?ssl=1\")
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Environmental scholar Bjorn Lomborg recently calculated that across the globe, governments have spent at least $16 trillion feeding the climate change industrial complex. [some emphasis, links added]<\/p>\n