Posted on 06/29/2014 2:23:23 AM PDT by markomalley
Bjorn Lomberg, a cofounder of Green Peace and author of the “Skeptical Environmentalist”, has an excellent TED talk from around 2006. He talks about the massive cost of “climate change” solutions at 150-200 billion dollars. For that much money, it is estimated that we could solve micro-nutrient deficits, de-worming, malaria and half a dozen other highly pressing problems - even bring clean water and sanitation to hundreds of millions.
He said that trying to mitigate climate change at that cost wasn’t worth it, by delaying the effects by six years. But solving all those problems would have a dramatic impact within a few years. And because micronutrient deficiencies and disease burdens drain the economies and potential of third world nations, their economies would grow much faster.
To quote him, a richer country could better adapt to climate change. But wasting money on solutions that hardly make a difference are no help at all.
And that’s why he’s reviled by environmentalists today.
Given $50 billion to spend, which would you solve first, AIDS or global warming? Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg comes up with surprising answers.
http://www.ted.com/talks/bjorn_lomborg_sets_global_priorities
Bolshies consider anyone in the private sector with a job the enemy.
Very interesting! Do we have a fake “war hero” here? Fake Indians, Fake Dead Broke people...it never ends.
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