Bjorn on RIO+20

Bjorn Lomborg has once again drawn attention to the opportunity costs of focusing on global warming as a pressing human problem while neglecting death dealing dangers facing the poor.

"So, for each person who might die from global warming, about 210 people die from health problems that result from a lack of clean water and sanitation, from breathing smoke generated by burning dirty fuels (such as dried animal dung) indoors, and from breathing polluted air outdoors.
By focusing on measures to prevent global warming, the advanced countries might help to prevent many people from dying. That sounds good until you realize that it means that 210 times as many people in poorer countries might die needlessly as a result – because the resources that could have saved them were spent on windmills, solar panels, biofuels, and other rich-world fixations."

This will remain the shame of warmist alarmists in perpetuity. 

I hope Bjorn's comments receive wide circulation in RIO next week.