Jeffrey Sachs on the credit crisis, climate change and overpopulation - Telegraph

Jeffrey Sachs on the credit crisis, climate change and overpopulation - Telegraph:

"Poverty and a billion starving people in Africa? Whisked away like dust. Overpopulation and water shortages? Waft, waft. Global warming and climate change? A little brush and they're gone.

It would all seem rather utopian did Sachs not share that Clinton/Blair-style knack of making almost anything seem completely do-able. Unlike so many economists, who tend dismally to explain why things will fail and why good intentions almost invariably go to waste; the Columbia man is Professor Optimism."

Long term readers will remember I have long been a fan Sach's ability to see the big picture. He has his detractors for sure, but he is one of the biggest players in the world economic forum.