Copenhagen Consensus

How to save the world in 13 easy steps

Published on June 4, 2004 By dreamtime iliaster In Current Events

The Copenhagen Consensus results are in. As expected, the climate change proposals have the worst cost/benefit ratio, and three of the four proposals that have negative returns are climate change proposals. I was surprised that spending money on HIV/AIDS has a greater benefit than spending money on malaria though. Knowing the result, it makes sense - the most effective malaria treatments are preventative, and must be applied to whole populations, and each individual case of malaria causes fewer new infections; but it's something I never would have guessed without already knowing the result. It's too bad they don't have comments from the panel members up (yet?).

Comments

MasonM

on Jun 04, 2004

Oh, my mistake. I thought this was about snuff.

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