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Uploaded on Jan 12, 2007

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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  • theWaterostrich

    watch his documentary, "Cool It." He addresses all of your concerns.

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  • sugoiheart

    compared to Al Gore, Martin Durkin, Sir Stern and more.. Lomborg actually makes sooo much more sense. He's neither extreme environmentalist nor extreme economists, and that makes his argument very much justified

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  • Chris Okum

    This shill has a voice for print. Why would you spend your life trying to convince people NOT to stop treating the planet like a garbage dump?

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  • sauderschoolUBC

    Looking forward to Lomborg's visit to our campus next week!

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  • valery tozer

    i dont aggree with this guy, if we dont , fix climate change now, there wont be any great grand childern, ya if you call in the avg joe, but they arnt climate speal, we can fix lots of thee other issus by (deDesartafication)? cant spell it, .. its on ted, then edu, and sani.

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  • 7Losses

    $50 Billion over 4 years? The Fed is printing $85 billion every month!

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  • Ash Anand

    Love the content of the talk, but the speaker just repeated the same thing over and over again - "It doesnt mean that you should not solve all these problems, but that since we can't solve all of them, we will solve the most important ones that give you bang for the buck". As a result- he dragged it too much and made it boring to hear.

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  • boomtao

    People dying - not harmful in an overpopulated world

    Planet inhabitable - very harmful

    Eradicate religion and you could potentially solve many problems in one go!

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  • meh23p

    I'm Danish and I am (still) thoroughly ashamed of Bjørn Lomborg.

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  • jonathan frodsham

    The type of business that can make a killing is one which has an monopoly. These are usually created by governments. But that does not mean that they are efficient, far from it. Market forces are what drive business, handing power to goverment is the quick road to disaster. People will buy stuff if they need and want it. In my business the biggest winners have not been me, but the workers, goverment, council and bank. I am the last in line to receive. I make a 2.5% profit.Sad!!

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