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Climate Change Series

Kyoto costs lives

By Bjørn Lomborg

Published: May 30 2008 14:55 | Last updated: May 30 2008 14:55

Environmentalist campaigners and celebrities have pounded the message that the world must concentrate above all else on reducing carbon emissions to tackle climate change.

The food crisis threatening to plunge 100m people into poverty has myriad causes and this fixation is one of the main ones. We have grown crops to feed cars instead of people.

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