Bjorn Lomborg: Global priorities bigger than climate change

http://www.ted.com Given $50 billion to spend, which would you solve first, AIDS or global warming? Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg comes up with surprising answers.

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What I'd like to talk about is really the biggest problems in the world.I'm not going to talk about "The Skeptical Environmentalist" --probably that's also a good choice.(Laughter)But I am going talk about: what are the big problems in the world?And I must say, before I go on, I should ask every one of youto try and get out pen and paperbecause I'm actually going to ask you to help me to look at how we do that.So get out your pen and paper.Bottom line is, there is a lot of problems out there in the world.I'm just going to list some of them.There are 800 million people starving.There's a billion people without clean drinking water.Two billion people without sanitation.There are several million people dying of HIV and AIDS.T...