On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
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Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.
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So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
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The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.
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My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.
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Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be more expensive than the original ailment.
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Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong independently if I'm right or left.
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I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that things are getting better, but there are still problems.
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The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly.
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The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.
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