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Bjorn Yesterday: NY Times Runs Op-Ed Asserting Poor People Need More Carbon Pollution
He's baaaaaack: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/12/04/3018051/bjorn-lomborg-carbon-pollution/
So the New York Times shuts down its environment desk and its Green Blog this year — a move widely panned as “a horrible decision.” Then last week, the Times‘ public editor publishes a damning analysis showing that the paper’s climate coverage had dropped sharply.
The paper’s response? Devote some of its scarce op-ed space to the umpteenth rehashed Bjorn Lomborg piece touting more carbon pollution and R&D in place of climate action, “The Poor Need Cheap Fossil Fuels.” If that headline sounds familiar, it’s because Lomborg had pieces in USA Today and National Post making similar arguments.
The paper’s response? Devote some of its scarce op-ed space to the umpteenth rehashed Bjorn Lomborg piece touting more carbon pollution and R&D in place of climate action, “The Poor Need Cheap Fossil Fuels.” If that headline sounds familiar, it’s because Lomborg had pieces in USA Today and National Post making similar arguments.
And apparently dumber than ever.
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Heard it here as well as the regional paper slashed staffed, jacked up subscription prices and took up less and less of each morning.
At least they don't inflict hacks like Lomborg on us. Just Friedman 