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Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it’s not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn’t over the last 150 years.

Bjorn Lomborg

The only thing that will really change global warming in the long run is if we radically increase the speed with which we get alternative technologies to deal with climate change.
BJORN LOMBORG

Long Running Technology
There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.
BJORN LOMBORG

Expensive Incredible Something Wrong
Across Europe, there are six times more cold-related deaths than heat-related deaths…by 2050…Warmer temperatures will save 1.4 million lives each year.
BJORN LOMBORG

Across Countries Death Relative
To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring.
BJORN LOMBORG

Challenge Choices Way
The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.
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Cost Kyoto Years
The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term.
BJORN LOMBORG

Global Long Thinking Want Warming
So it’s mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
BJORN LOMBORG

Helping Overcoming World
Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.
BJORN LOMBORG

Groups Issues Needs
If every country committed to spending 0.05 per cent of GDP on researching non-carbon-emitting energy technologies, that would cost $25 billion a year, and it would do a lot more than massive carbon cuts to fight warming and save lives.
BJORN LOMBORG

Country Cutting Fighting
My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.
BJORN LOMBORG

Drinking Suggestions Water
I think it’s great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view.
BJORN LOMBORG

Earth People Thinking Understand Views
For the longest time in Denmark I didn’t want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant.
BJORN LOMBORG

Country Irrelevant Longest Time Want
Surely the biggest problem we have in the world is that we all die. But we don’t have a technology to solve that, right? So the point is not to prioritize problems; the point is to prioritize solutions to problems.
BJORN LOMBORG

Problem Technology World
On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
BJORN LOMBORG

Average Global Warming World
I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation, karma, all that stuff.
BJORN LOMBORG

Believe Karma Religious
Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can’t use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.
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Cutting Hiv Water

Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it’s not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn’t over the last 150 years.

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Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it’s not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn’t over the last 150 years.

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