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.
BJORN LOMBORGSo it’s mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
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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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I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that things are getting better, but there are still problems.
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We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them.
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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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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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So it’s mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
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The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.
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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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There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.
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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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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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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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Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
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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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My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.
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