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A World Connected - Superstar Tsunamis v. Silent Killers
Trecho: Today, however, the WHO is adrift in a sea of political correctitude. It gives lip service to Third World needs, but devotes a lot of attention to First World concerns like obesity, traffic deaths, cancer and global warming. But Asian children dying of vitamin A deficiency and malnutrition hardly need to worry about obesity. African villagers are much more likely to be struck down by sleeping sickness than by an errant car. Indian and Bolivian mothers, hacking away from tuberculosis or wasting away from dysentery, are not immediately concerned with global warming either.
As to conjectural theories of catastrophic global climate change, Danish environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg calculates that the Kyoto treaty would slash annual global economic growth by $150 billion – to cut hypothetical temperature increases by 0.3 degrees by 2050. Maybe this is a noble goal, but everything comes at a cost. For half that amount, Lomberg says, we could provide clean water, proper sanitation, quality education and modern healthcare for every poor person on the planet. And if these NGOs were really thinking about the world’s poor, they might insist that leaders in these countries build in the institutions that would help them develop rights, wealth and infrastructure internally.
A World Connected - Superstar Tsunamis v. Silent Killers
Trecho: Today, however, the WHO is adrift in a sea of political correctitude. It gives lip service to Third World needs, but devotes a lot of attention to First World concerns like obesity, traffic deaths, cancer and global warming. But Asian children dying of vitamin A deficiency and malnutrition hardly need to worry about obesity. African villagers are much more likely to be struck down by sleeping sickness than by an errant car. Indian and Bolivian mothers, hacking away from tuberculosis or wasting away from dysentery, are not immediately concerned with global warming either.
As to conjectural theories of catastrophic global climate change, Danish environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg calculates that the Kyoto treaty would slash annual global economic growth by $150 billion – to cut hypothetical temperature increases by 0.3 degrees by 2050. Maybe this is a noble goal, but everything comes at a cost. For half that amount, Lomberg says, we could provide clean water, proper sanitation, quality education and modern healthcare for every poor person on the planet. And if these NGOs were really thinking about the world’s poor, they might insist that leaders in these countries build in the institutions that would help them develop rights, wealth and infrastructure internally.
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