Today’s crucial environmental problems of air and water pollution leave six
million people dead every year. Twenty years from now, we could have saved
120 million lives, if only Rio+20 had focused on solving the right problems.
There is an increasing rift between the fashionable environmental issues
focused on by rich countries and the prosaic needs of the rest of the world.
A breakdown at Rio+20 might be a good thing, if it wakes up the rich world
to tackling the more important environmental issues first.
Bjorn Lomborg (www.lomborg.com) is head of the Copenhagen Consensus Center
and the author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It
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