Cool it
Documentary
88 minutes / 2010
Rating: 8/10
Bjorn Lomborg is an agnostic, homosexual, vegetarian, environmentalist who believes that man-caused global warming is happening and is a significant problem. I stand opposed to his views of God, sexuality, and food choices, and am a good deal more skeptical about the impact of man on the warming of the planet. However, I love this documentary and highly recommend it because of the one point on which we both agree: Man is the pinnacle of creation (Gen. 1:26-27, Ps. 8:3-9).
Agnostic Lomborg doesn’t put it that way, but nonetheless, it is this understanding that drives his approach to climate change. So in the film, we see He gathered a group of Nobel Prize winners to discuss “where can we do the most good?” His proposed solutions have, as their measure, how many people can be saved with this approach, versus how many might be saved versus another. This Man-is-more-important-than-Nature approach has made him enemies and set him sharply apart from climate change proponents behind the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Accord. But it matches up with God’s priorities.
This should be watched not so much for the specific solutions it proposes, but rather for the different way of thinking – the right way of thinking! – that undergirds what Lomborg is proposing.
Check out the trailer below.
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