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So it’s mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.

Bjorn Lomborg

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.
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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.
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Challenge Choices Way
Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it’s important to get the sense… are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?
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Course Hands Important Moving
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.
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Problem Technology World
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
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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Europe Winter Years
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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Men Old Thinking World Worried
There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.
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Expensive Incredible Something Wrong
There is no question that global warming will have a significant impact on already existing problems such as malaria, malnutrition, and water shortages. But this doesn’t mean the best way to solve them is to cut carbon emissions.
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Carbon Cutting Emissions Mean
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
We see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.
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Catastrophes Dropped Fold Iverm Death
We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN.
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Numbers Past Worry
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.
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Long Running Technology
So it’s mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
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Helping Overcoming World
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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Country Irrelevant Longest Time Want
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.
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Country Cutting Fighting

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