Bjørn Lomborg:
The UN has asked people around the world for their top priorities. With 625,000 votes, climate is at the very bottom.
Not surprisingly, education, health care and corruption-free governments rank at the top, along with jobs, water and food. (People who would focus on food and water first are probably not on-line.)
Immediate environmental concerns for rivers and forests rank in the middle, whereas climate comes in at the last position.
This seems not only to follow quite closely the rankings in the Copenhagen Consensus, but also to make simple sense. If your kids are dying from easily curable diseases, have no food, or no jobs, your main concern is not a 2.6℃ temperature rise by the end of the century. If you have enough resources to worry about the environment at all, you worry about immediate concerns like air and water pollution.
It is only in rich countries (with high HDI) where climate comes in much higher, and yet still only at number 8 of 16.
And disarming our nuclear arsenal didn’t even make the list!
Yet that’s what Obama’s all about in Europe!
I must be dreaming! A UN survey that actually resulted in “common sense” results. I’m guessing it won’t be long before they tell us the listing was backwards. If it isn’t, the propaganda media won’t be reporting it. Please don’t wake me! I want this dream to last as long as possible.
Wait, wouldn’t that make it a ‘consensus’?