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The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.

Bjorn Lomborg

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

Helping Overcoming World
The fact that we’re catching more fish per person than we’ve ever done before doesn’t mean that there are not particular places where we’ve managed fisheries badly.
BJORN LOMBORG

Catching Done Fish Tanks Mean More
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Carbon Cutting Emissions Mean
Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.
BJORN LOMBORG

Groups Issues Needs
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Get Better Messages Trying
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
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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Believe Karma Religious
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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Found Great Intellectual Plato Sausage University
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
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
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
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
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
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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Important Men Problem Real World
We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them.
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Energy Green Needs
The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.
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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 Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.

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