[alexccmeister]

I have been reading the amazon review of Lomborg's book and I bring to your attention of a comment by a reviewer and he/she says, taking Richard Branson ' as an example, why he spend 3 billion dollars to find the most efficient fuel technology which may not be of benefit, rather than spend the money on getting clean water to the needy and poor. What Mr. Branson's doing, beside the fact that he will get even richer, is to find a technology that will exist long term and help not just us now but us in the future.

Remember the exercise you do when inside the plane? If there is decompression, you are suppose to put the oxygen mask on yourself before putting it on your child. There is a reason for doing this. It may sound cruel but it saves life.

I am not saying that we ignore clean water. But the truth is we are not, as i am sure there are people and NGO's out there who are working hard to get clean water to the masses. And who is to say Richard Branson isn't doing exactly that in his philantrophic lifestyle.

Giving large sum of money to some countries to help the poor isn't the best way as we all know. Corruption runs rampant when money is pledged to do something good in a developing country. A large portion of it will probably go to some greedy politicians and middle men leaving just a small amount to help those needy poor.