Bjorn Lomborg: Our priorities for saving the world
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http://www.ted.com Given $50 billion to spend, which would you solve first, AIDS or global warming? Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg comes up with surprising answers.
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@H1PBS You are right and a rethinking of our mindset would enable us to solve most if not all problems, but this is the application of realism on our situation on a global scale. A lot of TED videos focus on some abstract ideas with perhaps relatively little connection to a real, physical solution. And while that is in no way bad because it often identifies the problems at the core, this video is a refreshing take on very real problems with extremely tangible solutions.
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@joepglass - actually, those are numbers in some scenarios projected by that bleeding-heart bunch of hippy tree-hugging wackos in the U.S. D.O.D. The U.S. military increasingly views this as one of our greatest national security issues, and the last time I looked, Al Gore wasn't their commander-in-chief - in fact, most of these projections were done under Bush, while he was trying to gag Hansen at NASA. But I can give you climate change and still give good reasons to ditch fossil.
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@47f0 Those are make believe figures you're pulling out of you're ass, sir. If you continue to live with that Al Gore induced paranoia you will continue to sound like a jackass.
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@joepglass - "500 million dead in fifty years is not reality."
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You're likely right. It's not reality. Looking at desertification trends, coastal impact, and the sheer amount of cropland that is fed by glacial headwaters, plus degraded fisheries, not to mention wars from destabilizing effects of climate change, 500 million probably is not reality - it's probably on the low side.
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@joepglass Well I'm sorry but you clearly did miss the point. I was saying our economic system shouldn't be based on money to which you essentially said "but you need money to buy stuff". A completely vacuous comment. You seem too belligerent and close minded for there to be much point in continuing this discussion but if you look at the situation from a global perspective rather than your own country you'll see that a billion people starving in the world is nothing to be proud of.
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@H1PBS That is garbage and I missed nothing. We only have enough resources for the world if we continue to produce them. And the incentive of profit is the best known way for man to achieve, look at the country we built compared to those that chose a different economic system. The only reason we are in a position to do anything about CC is our wealth and, that was built using the requirement to constantly make profit.
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@ricci1007 Yer a corporate errand boy of Al Gore. STFU!
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@enriquesalazar009 I think we will leave the earth when the comet blows it up.
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@47f0 That is silliness and the exact thing that Al Gore has created with his paranoia porno. 500 million dead in fifty years is not reality.
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@thedirtman00 And your to dumb for this. Very little money is going towards AIDS research? What?
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All this video does is highlight how retarded our socioeconomic strucure is today. While I appreciate he is trying to make the best of a bad situation, it seems to me that he would really be better off putting forward the case for fundamental change in the world. The fact that we can't afford to do everything that needs doing doesn't mean we should prioritise, it means we should rethink the way things get done. It should not be a question of money but of resources and technological capability.
H1PBS 10 months ago 13
Gore gets 3-4-5 presentation; The contrary argument - that global man-made warming, is a hoax - gets about zero airtime in this venue. While TED has much going, it is far from balanced - nor does the group really vet its speakers credibility, if they are going to allow the likes of Gore and Co. to be highlighted without equal time to the scientific facts well known at this juncture. To wit: Michael Mann's "...hide the decline", Global Warming (manmade) is the best ence that Politics can buy.
wmweirich 1 month ago 2