Priorities? What a concept!
A good friend sent me a link to TEDTalks: Bjorn Lomborg. She gave no hint as to what I would find so I clicked on the link, completely unprepared. The specific talk had me nodding my head and saying “exactly” to no one in particular, over and over again.
I’ve since explored the site (Technology Entertainment Design), signed up for alerts, and thought I’d share it with you.
If you never click on a link I provide, please click on that first one. I'd love to know what you all think.
2 comments:
I've known about Lomborg for quite a while, and I think he makes very good points. We can't fix everything. We have limited resources, so it makes sense to focus on using those limited resources to do the most good.
What surprised me was how little money he said it would take to fix certain things. Seventy-five billion doesn't seem a huge amount in a multi-trillion dollar global economy. It can, in a perfect world, be done.
As usual, the problem is politics and corruption. Even if you examined each countries needs for say, malaria, and gave each Government the funds to deal with the problem, it wouldn't be properly spent. In too many countries, it would be diverted to other projects or into personal Swiss bank accounts. The people who need it most would miss out. Again.
I found the talk depressing. Exxon posted annual earnings sufficient to solve some major problems and it went to what? A CEO "worth" hundreds of millions? Give me a break.
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