Right Pulse

Rudd claims that opponents of the climate change agenda will hurt future children. According to Bjorn Lomborg it is the exact opposite:

Getting basic sanitation and safe drinking water to the three billion people around the world who do not have it now would cost nearly $4 billion a year. By contrast, cuts in global carbon emissions that aim to limit global temperature increases to less than two degrees Celsius over the next century would cost $40 trillion a year by 2100. These cuts will do nothing to increase the number of people with access to clean drinking water and sanitation. Cutting carbon emissions will likely increase water scarcity, because global warming is expected to increase average rainfall levels around the world.

Turnbull is also complicit in pushing this great lie, that failure to push the climate change agenda will hurt future generations. He seems to be ignoring the opportunity cost of spending up to $40 trillion.