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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.

Bjorn Lomborg

For the longest time in Denmark I didn’t want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant.
BJORN LOMBORG

Country Irrelevant Longest Time Want
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
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Long Running Technology
Global warming is real – it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.
BJORN LOMBORG

Important Men Problem Real World
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
My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.
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Drinking Suggestions Water
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
Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.
BJORN LOMBORG

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

Helping Overcoming World
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Global Listen Real Sea Years
Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
BJORN LOMBORG

Policy Sound Thinking
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Choices Consider Identity Policy
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Catastrophes Dropped Fold Iverm Death
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
I’m an old member of Greenpeace. I worried intensely, as I think most of my friends did, that the world was coming apart.
BJORN LOMBORG

Men Old Thinking World Worried

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