I'm going to have to disagree with this article, since it's not like Pascal's wager -- the choices to redirect our effort to combating climate change will have

I'm going to have to disagree with this article, since it's not like Pascal's wager -- the choices to redirect our effort to combating climate change will have a negative effect on if there is no climate change. The amount of attention that alternative energy, etc consume vs real on the ground problems of starvation, poverty, and disease that are affecting the world is staggering. These are real problems and dwarf climate change; even if we can significantly reduce co2 emissions population growth and the rising standard of living will most likely dwarf the gains made. So perhaps we should instead focus our attention on reducing population growth - caused by poverty - caused by corrupt political systems.