Bjorn Lomborg blasted politicians on Friday, arguing that they use climate change as a scapegoat to sidestep “responsibility” for “failures” in addressing disasters. The criticism came in the wake of the devastating wildfires in Maui that killed at least 96 people.
According to Lomborg, “when everybody blames climate, which is a very, very small part of the whole puzzle, you take away responsibility from all these failures. And that’s, of course, what you really need to focus on if you are going to avoid the next fire.”
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. Additionally, 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.
Lomborg added that Hawaii Governor Josh Green’s addresses to the issue was a “failure”. He noted that putting “hold because he wants cheaper buildings,” and not having enough fire breaks, or any kind of alarm system that could help alert people, were all decisions that will lead to worse outcomes down the blocks.
“We are not learning as long as we just keep blaming global warming” he said. “Global warming is a real problem, we should fix it, we should fix it smartly, but it’s not the main part of this problem and we are dealing with it really badly and we are helping future people, who will be affected by future fires as well, really badly if we don’t focus on the smart things to do.”
Democrats have been wasteful in handling natural disasters, rather than taking corrective action to prevent the tragedies that ensue. Climate change is not the issue, it is not the “failures” that politicians have had in maintaining the local environment that is the root cause of the destruction. Lomborg’s statements prove that Democrats’ spending money on “global warming” initiatives are just an excuse for their failures, rather than fixing the issue at its root.