18/06/2004

PUBLIC SERVICE: Green Bible challenged.

A group of experts led by Bjorn Lomborg, author of the heterodox «The Skeptical Environmentalist», and the black sheep of the greens, conducted since 2002 a discussion under the name of Copenhagen Consensus project whose «basic idea was to improve prioritization of the numerous problems the world faces, by gathering some of the world's greatest economists to a meeting where some of the biggest challenges in the world would be assessed».

The results of the Copenhagen Consensus work, grounded on cost-benefit analysis method, challenge the green bible of the environmentalists and were summarized by The Economist in this crystal clear table:



Watch what happened to those sacred cows such as the beloved Kyoto Protocol.

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