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 LOMBORGThere is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.
More Bjorn Lomborg Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.
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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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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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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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Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
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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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