It’s particularly
trendy among politicians and members of the media to be worried about climate
change. When President Obama recently spoke before a crowd in Berlin, he saidthat climate
change “is the global threat of our time.”
But that’s not
true. Just a cursory glance around the world reveals that, given the enormous
problems facing our planet, it would be surprising if climate change cracked a
list of the top 10 immediate concerns. As I discussed in
my book Science
Left Behind, the single biggest threat facing humanity is
poverty. That’s a mundane topic; it’s neither sexy nor trendy, but it’s
nonetheless true.
About 1.3 billion
people don’t have electricity. A poignant article in TIME
described what that life looks like: …To Read More…..
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