Bjørn Lomborg
Viewpoint: What the war in Ukraine tells us about global limitations of organic farming
The nascent food crisis now reveals a hard truth: organic agriculture cannot feed the world and could even worsen future ...
Viewpoint: ‘Organic farming folly’ — Bjorn Lomborg says Ukraine war has exposed Europe’s ‘self-indulgent obsession’ with low-yield, unsustainable farming
As food prices skyrocket and the [Ukraine] conflict threatens a global food crisis, we need to face another unpopular reality: ...
Video: Organic food is a great business but a bad environmental investment
[Editor's note: Bjorn Lomborg is director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and a visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School.] There are no health benefits ...
Organic farming can never feed the world
Organic food has become the fastest-growing sector of the U.S. food industry. . . . Buying it makes us feel like we’re ...
Claims organic food better for health, animals, planet ‘marketing hype’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . [E]verywhere ...
Video: UN goals for reducing hunger best achieved by investing in agricultural research
Bjørn Lomborg, director of non-profit think tank Copenhagen Consensus, says that investing in agricultural research and development is one of the best ...
Why does public have selective hearing on scientific opinions?
How come we sometimes listen to scientific arguments, but sometimes disregard them entirely? Pew Research Center has done a survey ...
Sensational headlines should not cloud reality of India’s GM crop success
Too often, we let emotion crowd out the facts of a news story. We base our opinions on the most ...
India’s GM crop success bedevils critics
It’s best two dissect two separate strains of the [anit-GMO] argument [in India]: first, that there is a wave of ...
How Europe abuses the ‘precautionary principle’ and stifles innovation
The precautionary principle, at its core a beneficial concept, has been progressively vamped up or weaponized and is now being ...
“There is no bee crisis,” environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg says
Contrary to what you may have heard, there is no “bee-pocalypse.” There is lots of alarmist talk about colony collapse ...
Trashing rice, killing children
Earlier this month, 400 protestors destroyed a field trial of genetically modified Golden Rice in the Philippines. Aided by well-meaning ...