There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.
BJORN LOMBORGI 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.
More Bjorn Lomborg Quotes
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I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment.
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Global warming is real – it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.
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On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
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The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term.
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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.
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We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN.
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Winter regularly takes many more lives than any heat wave: 25,000 to 50,000 each year die in Britain from excess cold.
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To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring.
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For the longest time in Denmark I didn’t want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant.
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If our starting point is to prove that Armageddon is on its way, we will not consider all of the evidence, and will not identify the smartest policy choices.
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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.
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So it’s mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
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I’m an old member of Greenpeace. I worried intensely, as I think most of my friends did, that the world was coming apart.
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Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
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Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
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