On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
BJORN LOMBORGThe 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.
More Bjorn Lomborg Quotes
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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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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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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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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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We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN.
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Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
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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 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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There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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