Arvind is quite cynical, but it is true that we've had a lot of big scares lately -- remember all the fuss about swine flu and bird flu?
nevertheless, i wouldn't put the climate change issue into the same category, although Arvind would.
NGO's pushing this sort of stuff are all scum, in general.
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From: Arvind
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/articles/2010/05/24/global-death-rate-for-children-lower-than-thought
From: Arvind
Sort of like the AIDS thing. Cook up big numbers to collect money and force governments to allocate more money, then lower the numbers to justify not spending the money.
The global death rate for children under the age of 5 appears to be significantly lower -- by as much as 800,000 fewer deaths -- than the latest mortality estimates released by UNICEF in 2008.
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