Rohingya Muslim refugees run to receive food

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全球变暖让我们更加饥饿吗？

Jan 17, 2018 Bjørn Lomborg

布拉格—十多年来，年度数据表明全球饥饿情况日益下降。但情况有变：据联合国粮农组织最新数据，2016年有8.15亿人受饥饿影响，比2015年多了3,800万人，而营养不良原则在威胁着成千上万人。

我的智库根本哈根共识（Copenhagen Consensus）长期以来一直帮助人们关注和集中资源以最有效地应对全球和国家（如海地和孟加拉国）层面的营养不良问题。不幸的是，令人担忧的信号表明，全球应对措施可能对准了错误的方向。

粮农组织将饥饿情况的恶化归咎于暴力冲突的大爆发和“气候相关冲击”，即洪灾和旱灾等具体的极端事件。

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Bjørn Lomborg

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Bjørn Lomborg, a visiting professor at the Copenhagen Business School, is Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center. His books include The Skeptical Environmentalist, Cool It, How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place, The Nobel Laureates' Guide to the Smartest Targets for the World, and, most recently, Prioritizing Development. In 2004, he was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people for his research on the smartest ways to help the world.

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Lou Miller Jan 17, 2018

You can do both: Take steps to limit CO2 and take steps to increase agricultural productivity. It is not an either/or proposition. I agree with you 100% about biofuel (ethanol) subsidies at least in the US. They should be ended for all kinds of reasons but our leaders apparently do not want to offend the farmers that elect them, so screw that idea.
Two ideas you do not mention. 1. End beef production. This will free land for crop production and reduce methane emissions. Some report that all by itself ending beef production may significantly reduce the rate of climate warming. 2. Encourage education of females across the world and distribute birth control pills and devices to reduce population.
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