[OESY]

Mr. Lomborg, organizer of Copenhagen Consensus, is the author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist" (Cambridge University Press, 2001).

[stopem]

"Leaders should list priorities using a cost-benefit approach.

What a novel approach....

[ghost of nixon]

Lomborg is an amazing guy - he's a honest leftie who did the research & ending up writing a brilliant & scathing book on the dishonesty of environmentalists, and the wastefulness & even danger of most the policies they promote. He has even, somehow, gotten the government of his native Denmark to start listening & using this "common sense, cost/benefits" approach to tackling enviromental problems. It seems he is starting to get some following over here -

[WasDougsLamb]

Leaders should list priorities using a cost-benefit approach.

Example Ray Nagin

Cost: Billions of dollars
Benefit: Himself

There. Ray is all done with his.