A Kyoto Alternative

Dr Madsen Pirie at the Adam Smith Institute challenges the developed wortd to conquer Malaria and provide clean water to the developing world.

The cost of doing it would be large, but would less than the cost of one year's compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, as Lomborg has pointed out. Furthermore, it would save millions of lives each year, whereas it has not been established that Kyoto will save a single life. There are doubtless many worthwhile targets, but surely these two cry out for our attention?

It is an excellent site and an interesting challenge. Some of us who are new WIlsonians after the liberation of Iraq might consider these as a positive alternative to isolationism and a realistic alternative to Kyoto and possibly African AIDS initiatives.

Posted by jk at October 10, 2003 10:55 AM