It is cheaper to adapt to climate breakdown than stop it, former Brexit negotiator argues
As temperatures soared around the world this week, the Conservative peer and former lead Brexit negotiator David Frost was telling the House of Lords that global warming was “likely to be beneficial”.
Attempts to derail climate action often come in the form of “discourses of delay”, where there is no denial of climate breakdown but the impression is given “that solving climate change is not our job, that it will not require substantial changes, that it is too expensive, or that it is pointless to try”. So it is actually quite refreshing to hear one of the UK’s most prominent critics of net zero saying the quiet part out loud: there’s no need to tackle the climate crisis, Frost suggested, because it will be a good thing.
Simon Evans is the deputy editor and senior policy editor at Carbon Brief
