How to save the world

What's more important to the people of this world than basic health care, better water and sanitation, more schools and better nutrition for children? Saving the world, of course! That is, if you believe all the cassandras warning us abt the impending end of the world in ..... a million years! It would be really amusing if not for the opportunity cost of this obsession with "environmental issues" - we are diverting precious funds, attention and resources from the basic needs of more than half of humanity. As I have written before in Civilisation protects us from Nature!, Michael Crichton makes pretty much the same point in his book State of Fear. Here is more evidence from the United Nations itself, courtesy the Economist magazine.

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