Not according to a bunch of Nobel Prize winning analysts at the Copenhagen Consensus. They said the effort&#x2F;resources would be much better spent solving problems for the poor today. Curbing CO2 by some small amount in 85 years will yield, by a large margin, the least benefit of money spent today.<p>This isn&#x27;t a topic they dared to cover, but imagine the benefit to the hundreds of millions in Africa living without access to reliable cheap power if their countries could secure international loans for coal plants. Jobs, prosperity, food, industrialized living.