"21 solutions to save the world" includes iodizing salt
The new May/June issue of Foreign Policy magazine includes a compendium of the answers of 21 of the world's "leading thinkers" in response to the question: "What is one solution that would make the world a better place?"
Among the 21 intellectuals is Denmark's Bjørn Lomborg , author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and the tell-truth-to-power advocate that Al Gore refused to debate about "inconvenient truths" on the environment.
Lomborg argued that the most important problem for mankind is overcoming iodine deficiency. He explained: "Children lacking iodine do not develop properly, either physically or intellectually. All they need is salt fortified with iodine." Lomborg, a professor at the Copenhagen Business School notes that 3 million people die a year from malnutrition - and hundreds of millions of children suffer reduced mental and physical abilities because of "unsexy-sounding 'micronutrient deficiency' - a lack of iodine, vitamin A and iron.
