Clean Water

Bjorn Lomborg, a former member of Greenpeace, has done yeoman's work to explain to anyone willing to listen that, of all the problems in the world, global warming is low on the list of priorities to address (and he assumes global warming is a problem).

Lomborg convenes policy makers and economists to develop the Copenhagen Consensus, which represents this group's assessment of what are the truly urgent problems facing the world. Top on the list is access to clean water for the three billion people in the world who lack it.

Lomborg's recent column in the Wall Street Journal discusses the awful conditions that the lack of clean water creates, and why a focus on global warming pales in comparison for the world's poor.