Faced with such alarmist suggestions, spending just 1% of GDP or $450 billion each year to cut carbon emissions seems on the surface like a sound investment. In fact, it is one of the least attractive options. Spending just a fraction of this figure--$75 billion--the U.N. estimates that we could solve all the world's major basic problems. We could give everyone clean drinking water, sanitation, basic health care and education right now. Is that not better?
Monday, November 6, 2006
Bjorn Lomborg argues that global warming is not our most pressing concern:
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I don't like arguments like this. There's always something better, and it makes people not do anything. I say it's better to do the thing you can do, even if it's not ideal, than to say how much more you could do if the funds were directed efficiently and never do anything.
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