The Dutch think-tanker Bjørn Lomborg and author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, is a strong advocate for focusing attention and resources on what he perceives as far more pressing world problems than climate change, such as AIDS, malaria, malnutrition and clean water.
He argues that many of the costly measures and actions adopted by scientists and policy makers to meet the challenges of global warming will ultimately have minimal impact on the world's rising temperature.
IOW, spending a dollar on climate change solutions, such as carbon taxes, to save a nickel in outcome, is not sound economic or scientific advice.
Spending all of our resources trying to stop climate change, which has the least bang for the buck in outcome versus solving world hunger or ensuring everyone has clean water to drink, doesn't make sense.
We can solve many of those problems now and they will have a greater impact on populations than the dire warnings on the climate changing in a hundred years will have.
Spending all of our money on something people can't see concrete results from now, is a non-starter for the majority of the population.