If you had an extra $50 million to spend on the world's problems, where would you spend it -- to stop global warming, fight the spread of HIV/AIDS, combat malnutrition or something else? A few years back, Danish business professor Bjorn Lomborg created a firestorm of controversy when he suggested that efforts to combat global warming don't always return the biggest bang for our collective buck. He joins Kojo to explain.
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Rethinking World Problems
Listen Monday, Sep. 10, 2007 at 1:06 p.m. in EnvironmentGuests
Bjorn Lomborg
Professor, Copenhagen Business School; Director of The Copenhagen Consensus Center; and author of "Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming" (Knopf)
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