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:: Monday, July 10, 2006 ::
Get your global priorities straight
"Mr. Lomborg grins and says that before the event he briefed the ambassadors: "Several of them looked down the list and said 'Wait, I want to put a No. 1 by each of these projects, they are all so important.' And I had to say, 'Yeah, uh, that's exactly the point of this exercise--to make you not do that.'" So rank they did. And perhaps no surprise, their final list looked very similar to that of the wise economists. At the top were better health care, cleaner water, more schools and improved nutrition. At the bottom was . . . global warming." Ya, that global warming thingy ranks way up on my priorities list too and, gosh, Al Gore is sooo genuinely concerned...
Related: John Stossel provides a little rational perspective: A Convenient Lie
:: Max 9:02 PM [+] ::
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