Conflicts and Terrorism

2013-11-06 One of the longest-running big picture debates is between optimists and pessimists  arguing the state of the world. Pessimists  have constantly painted a dystopian future from Malthus and Jevons to the 1972 book Limits to Growth. Optimists have cheerfully pointed to how everything is getting better. 

2013-03-07 Bjorn Lomborg was asked to testify before the House Subcommittee on Environment of the Committee on Science, Space and Technology on March 6, 2013. Unfortunately, the hearing had to be postponed because of snow, but you can read his presentation about "Policy Relevant Climate Issues in Context." 

War Is a Long, Messy Hell And it’s more important than ever that we try to prevent it in the first place.

By Bjørn Lomborg Posted Wednesday, May 9, 2012, at 3:10 PM ET

Without peace and stability, there are impediments to solving every other challenge that we have looked at in the Copenhagen Consensus 2012 series. Armed conflict is a major global problem that disproportionately affects the world’s poorest. Not a single low-income country afflicted by violence has achieved even one of the eight Millennium Development goals. 

‘Eu não mudei de ideia’, diz o cientista político dinamarquês Bjorn Lomborg Em novo livro, ex-cético recua da tese de que mudança climática não deve ser prioridade O cientista político dinamarquês Bjorn Lomborg ficou famoso dez anos atrás ao publicar O Ambientalista Cético. No best seller, acusava ONGs de manipular dados para que governos investissem pesado no combate às mudanças climáticas. O termo cético virou moda, mas Lomborg recuou. Em Smart Solutions to Climate Change (Soluções Inteligentes para as Mudanças Climáticas), elege o tema como prioritário.

Alejandro Alle Lunes, 1 de Septiembre de 2008 Al igual que Tom Hanks en la película Apolo XIII, cuando le informaba a su base en Houston haber sufrido una explosión a bordo a raíz de la cual estaban en problemas, son muchas las oportunidades en que América Latina le ha hecho saber al mundo de sus desventuras económicas. 

By Bjorn Lomborg and Todd Sandler. ...Recently, Copenhagen Consensus, whose purpose is to weigh the costs and benefits of different solutions to the world's biggest problems, commissioned new research into the merits of different methods of combating terrorism. The results are surprising and troubling... 

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