Copenhagen Consensus Links (15cc8links.html) -- Working Draft -- changes daily
A Dane reports on the Copenhagen Consensus Conference on global priorities in this video.
video -- 16:40 min
I just looked at it again and find it so valuable that I will make a Roundtable presentation on it.
download version This is a 2005 video of the 2004 conference. There were additional conferences in 2008 and 2012 -- all of which have Nobel Prize winners on the panels. Just begining to research these now to see if any of the goal decisions have had any progress. Just started but the #1 goal then is still #1 goal today. This suggests how well-thought-out logic is subordinate to politics. They didn't invite O', or if they did, he had a golf to attend to that week. Just put the 2013 book on the To Buy list at Amazon (arrived, so-so, provides background info, not much new.). Hope to find a more current video, but this has such an impact on me, that I hope it can on others.
In a follow up to his 2005 TED Talk, Bjorn Lomborg explores the very big -- and very expensive -- problems that have been facing humanity for the past 100 years.
What do global problems cost us? - 17 min Can we afford to make improvments? Or, not to?
In a follow up to his 2005 TED Talk, Bjorn Lomborg explores the very big -- and very expensive -- problems that have been facing humanity for the past 100 years.
What do global problems cost us? - 17 min Can we afford to make improvments? Or, not to?
Can there be a downside to governmental actions ? A U.S. example.
sameWhich is autostart? Is this the law of unintended consequences or of unthinking eco-activism?
We must look at the benefit-to-cost ratio to make rational decisions. Hense Copenhagen Consensus.
United Nations Millennium Summit embraced a short list of ambitious challenges that later became known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
What the UN progress report does not say is that most of the monies went into the third world country budgets
for routine things Or into addressing various emergencies -- not into new programs. Hense the
request for additional monies with which to, maybe, address the intended goals.
Promises to Keep -- Crafting Better Development Goals? -- View 8 page "Foreign Affairs"
(Nov/Dec 2014) article with 22 minute reading of the article. Pros and Cons.
This was put into the handout preparitory to the Creative Retirement session!
An evidence of success is an increase of population.
The public preceives that population
control is a major factor in improving life on, and for, the earth.
Governments and the expert decision makers are unwilling to address is issue.