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Finding a climate for growth 5:45pm on 16 Oct 2008 If anything has been proven by this financial crisis, it is that people largely don't give a hoot climate change.

Read Bjorn Lomborg - the only person who has confronted the issue of what, really, is money well spent. His Copenhagen consensus rightly highlights how we should address real problems in our world.

I confess I find it utterly shameful that for $50bn, so much could be achieved to alleviate developing countries' problems, but we don't do it. Yet when our own livelihoods are threatened, we have no hesitation of throwing hundreds of billions at the issue. Climate change is real, but it is utterly irrelevant to the lives of billions of people whom we could and should help today.

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