Bjorn Lomborg joined The Economist's podcast The Economist asks to discuss the question: "Poverty, health, education or climate change: where should governments spend their money?" Within each of these areas, some solutions are better than others: shouldn't we do the smart ones first?

Promoting his climate change film An Inconvenient Sequel, former US vice-president Al Gore likes to say that the nightly news has become “a nature hike through the Book of Revelations”.

He’s not the only one touting an apocalypse. In a much-shared story, New York magazine warned that famine, economic collapse and “a sun that cooks us” will happen as soon as the end of this century, as “parts of the Earth will likely become uninhabitable, and other parts horrifically inhospitable”.

Donald Trumps Kündigung des Pariser Klimavertrags ist ein Problem. Jedoch lassen sich auch so erhebliche Mängel am abkommen feststellen. Langfristig wird die Welt so oder so effizientere und tragbarere Alternativen finden müssen.

La nutricionista Rocío Pastor enumera los pros y contras de un estilo de vida que «comenzó con la cultura hippie» y que ahora «tiene un público con un nivel económico medio-alto».

Num mundo onde não há falta de boas causas, fazer o melhor bem possível exige que nos concentremos nas melhores oportunidades primeiro.

Malnutrition receives less attention than most of the world’s other major challenges. Yet it is one area where a relatively small investment can have the most powerful impact.

These days, people for the most part believe that governments should try to promote the general welfare of the populations they serve. The disagreements come over how to do that—what goals to focus on, what policies to adopt, and so on. These questions are usually approached through broad intellectual frameworks, such as political ideology or religion, and much time is spent debating the finer points of various doctrines.

Poleti se je težko izogniti vročini. Na to nas spominjajo tudi mediji. "Smrtonosni vročinski valovi postajajo vse bolj pogosti zaradi podnebnih sprememb," poroča televizijska postaja CNN. "Ekstremni vročinski valovi bodi spremenili naš način življenja. Na to nismo pripravljeni," svari tednik Time. Nekatere zgodbe so bolj senzacionalistične od drugih, a nosijo isto sporočilo: nevarni vročinski valovi bodo vse pogostejši in silnejši zaradi globalnega segrevanja.

Trump vil skære fødevarehjælpen Food for Peace helt væk, men få andre former for udviklingsstøtte er vigtigere - eller en bedre investering i planeten - end at forbedre ernæring for de yngste, mener Bjørn Lomborg 

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Jako gospodarz dużej populacji diaspory haitańskiej Kanada od dawna kieruje wiele pomocy oficjalnej i prywatnej na Haiti – najbiedniejszy kraj zachodniej półkuli ziemskiej. Niedawno jednak cofnęła się: w roku 2015 Haiti spadło z największego odbiorcy pomocy w r. 2010 na 16. miejsce.