Part 10/14:
The Real Challenges: Poverty, Malnutrition, and Infectious Diseases
Far from the dramatic doom scenarios, Lomborg highlights that poverty reduction, education, and health are the most effective paths to improving human outcomes. He cites the progress made: child mortality from malnutrition has halved since 1990; infectious diseases like tuberculosis could be almost eradicated for a cost of just a few billion dollars annually.
He warns that media and political narratives tend to focus narrowly on climate, neglecting these "big wins" in global health and development that could save hundreds of millions of lives.