January 09, 2005

Money well spent ?

The notorious Bjorn Lomborg who wrote "the skeptical environmentalist has in reply to the idea of setting up an early tsunami warning system in Indonesia after the recent catastrophe commented that the money might be spent better. The system can be set up for 18 million US$, and will probably save 100.000 lives next time a tsunami hits. But is this money well spent ?

Not accordding to Bjorn Lomborg. His take is that 3 million people in the area die from diseases such as malaria every year, and can be cured relatively cheaply. If the money were spent on this it would save a considerably higher number of lives.

I think he might be right...

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