Act on Climate Change, but Tackle Other Global Problems, Too

Should action on the climate be just another line item in the budget? Written by Michael Shermer, the article directly references the work of Bjorn Lomborg and the Copenhagen Consensus Center. 

In the second edition (2014) of his book How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place, Bjørn Lomborg reports the findings of a study sponsored by his Copenhagen Consensus Center 2012 project in which more than 50 economists evaluated 39 proposals on how best to solve such problems as armed conflicts, natural disasters, hunger, disease, education and climate change. Climate change barely rated a mention in the top 10"

15 Jul 2014

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