Focus on people, 'not the climate'

[XemaSab]

EXPENSIVE strategies to cut greenhouse emissions, such as Australia's proposed trading scheme, will do practically nothing to reduce the impact of climate change, and the money would be better used to address malnutrition, disease and the rights of women in developing countries, according to a review by leading economists.

The Copenhagen Consensus Centre co-ordinated by Danish economist Bjorn Lomborg has ranked the pursuit of deep cuts in emissions by countries such as Australia and Europe as one of the least-effective ways of advancing global welfare.

The findings contradict the analysis by Ross Garnaut and Nicholas Stern, who argue that the high cost of mitigating greenhouse gases now is much less than the risk of inaction on climate change.

In prioritising how best to spend $75billion over the next four years to deliver the greatest good to mankind, a panel of eight economists, including five Nobel laureates, did not feature any climate change spending among their 13 priority projects.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24115370-11949,00.html

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[FirstLight]

1. Kick & Rec!

Thanks Xema, you always bring these stories to light, and I otherwise would not know what was up in so many ways...just struggling to live amidst all this crazyness takes more then I can bear at times.

You know it is sad that we are so far past a critical point that we can only feed the hungry, so they will need more water, so that resources wil be tapped MORE as the Earth continues to change and we will be still feeding rice to the hungry instead of finding a way to adapt and change our evil ways. so sad, and scary :scared:

I wonder what kind of world my kids will end up with? :cry:

[Dead_Parrot]

2. I must need a break

The moment I saw the headline, I thought "Oh fuck, not Lomborg again".

And sure enough, there he is, still floating around in the bowl stinking the bathroom out.

Sigh.

[XemaSab]

3. That was as easy as passing an elk turd to a soil science student

:D

[DCKit]

4. K&R for the show. n/t

[XemaSab]

5. Kick!

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