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Bjorn Lomborg is a Danish economist, author of the books The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It, and Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center

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Bjorn Lomborg is a Danish economist, author of the books The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It, and Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center. He is a scholar who is not afraid to voice unpopular arguments. For this Discussion Board you will

• Watch Bjorn Lomborg’s TED Talk “Global Priorities Bigger than Climate Change (Links to an external site.)”
• Reply to this thread and post a well-articulated and concise argument regarding why you agree or disagree with Lomborg's main argument. For full credit, your post needs to: 
  • Be posted by the end of the day on Wednesday
  • Summarize Lomborg's main argument in just a couple of sentences, be concise.
  • State why you agree or disagree with this argument. Provide information from an additional source that will support your opinion.
  • State if you think the list of priorities would be different in 2019? Why or why not? Provide information from an additional source that will support your position.
  • State where would climate change fall on your priority list, high priority (top of the list), low priority (bottom of the list) or somewhere in the middle. Give a reason why.
  • Post a comment to at least three other students.
  • Reply to questions posed in another student's reply (it can be a reply to your post or someone else's post).  Let's get some thoughtful discussions going.