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Comments on: Save the people or save the world http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2008/04/20/save-the-people-or-save-the-world/ The Visible Hand in Economics Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:06:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: terence http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2008/04/20/save-the-people-or-save-the-world/#comment-1284 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:06:22 +0000 http://tvhe.wordpress.com/?p=338#comment-1284 John Quiggin deals with this pretty well I think
http://johnquiggin.com/index.php/archives/2005/01/21/copenhagen-review/

]]> By: stephen23 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2008/04/20/save-the-people-or-save-the-world/#comment-1283 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:30:10 +0000 http://tvhe.wordpress.com/?p=338#comment-1283 You can get many positives/negatives here http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-positives-negatives.htm

It’s fairly easy to see which ones are jokes/examples of media hysteria, I think.
Malaria and dengue fever are forecast to have a bigger range due to more hospitable conditions – some people would rather spend billions on malaria prevention than climate change mitigation/prevention, but I would argue they are somewhat interconnected.

]]> By: rauparaha http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2008/04/20/save-the-people-or-save-the-world/#comment-1282 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:08:14 +0000 http://tvhe.wordpress.com/?p=338#comment-1282 Sure, if there is climate change then people will die. But if we put huge amounts of resources into averting climate change then many people will die of other things. My point is that averting climate change gives up the opportunity to do other good things, which might include saving millions of lives.

Those people MIGHT eventually die from extreme weather events, but it’s less certain than death from AIDS and. Since it’s further in the future, you might also discount those deaths more heavily.

]]> By: dracotb http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2008/04/20/save-the-people-or-save-the-world/#comment-1281 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:49:48 +0000 http://tvhe.wordpress.com/?p=338#comment-1281 Why would you think it is a question of saving the world or saving the people?
Saving the world will save the people because if the world ‘dies’ then billions of people will die as well. Some of the effects of climate change will be to make large tracts of habitable land uninhabitable (especially around the equator) and make huge amounts of arable land desolate.

BTW, I’m with James Lovelock and think that we’ve already gone past the point of no return. Peak Oil will exacerbate things.

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