Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
BJORN LOMBORGWe 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.
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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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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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We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN.
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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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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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So it’s mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
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Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
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