A cardinal fallacy reigns over the debate on green energy and global decarbonisation. It taps into deep Malthusian instincts and creates near-universal confusion.

It causes well-educated people to accept the claim that stabilising greenhouse emissions by mid-century will prove to be a near-impossible task. It contaminates economic models and explains why the UK Treasury and other bodies – though not the Energy Institute – cling to exorbitant estimates of what it will cost.

The Telegraph London