Its all about the hype
A brilliant quote by Bjorn Lomborg, via Counterblast via The Australian: For the cost of implementing Kyoto in just one year, we could permanently provide clean drinking water and sanitation to everyone on the planet. Yet it is unlikely that Emmerich [IMDB] will cast Brad Pitt [IMDB] creating sewerage systems in Kenya for his next glamorous movie. Nor is he likely to tell us the tale of governments investing in malarial vaccines or global conferences removing trade barriers.But hey, who cares about facts when you can cash in Leftist-votes?
2 comments:
Not sure where Bjorn Lomborg is from, but why haven't they provided drinking water and sanitation for the world yet? Further, I think it's impossible to permanently provide clean drinking water to everyone on the planet, as clean water is a finite resource.
Sorry about the flames; I'm just from Canada, where the right is too far right.
-Brendan
With 70% of the Earth's surface covered witht the stuff, and water purification techniques, such as distilling, easily available, it simply makes no sense to talk of clean water as a finite resource. On the other hand, power for the distillation process is finite, but if people weren't so scared of nuclear power we could easily distill enough clean water to drown a million whales.
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