" Choosing expensive carbon-cutting policies or insisting on green development approaches might seem like an easy choice for the world’s elite in Washington, DC, or Paris, France, but the burden of these choices falls unfairly on the world’s poor, and especially on those living in abject poverty. They need more energy, not moralizing from the West. It is perverse to hear rich people piously claim that we should help the world’s poor by cutting carbon dioxide to make their future slightly less worse, when we have huge opportunities to make their lives much better, much more quickly, and much more effectively.” -p. 147

“When we see a malnourished child or a town hit by a hurricane and seriously suggest that we should make lives better by cutting a ton of carbon dioxide, we are not actually trying to do good, but rather imposing our own priorities on people who have little power to assert their own… We’ve committed to spending $1 trillion to $2 trillion a year just on the almost entirely ineffective Paris Agreement. Every MONTH the cost will be the same as the amount that could lift EVERYONE from extreme poverty. This strikes me as obscene.” -p. 148 "

― Bjorn Lomborg