By 
Bjorn Lomborg
 | 
TED Stage Talk

Global priorities bigger than climate change

Given $50 billion to spend, which would you solve first, AIDS or global warming? Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg comes up with surprising answers.

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environment
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