Sentences with phrase «pressing challenges of poverty»

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It seems that Dr Lomborg in the past had attracted controversy for suggesting that the dangers of climate change are overstated, and that modern society faces other more pressing challenges such as global poverty.

The press release coincides with the 2016 Welfare Food Challenge, a campaign organized by Raise the Rates to educate people who do not have firsthand knowledge of the gross inadequacy of current welfare rates and to increase pressure on government to take meaningful action on poverty.