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.
BJORN LOMBORGListen, 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.
More Bjorn Lomborg Quotes
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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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Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.
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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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My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.
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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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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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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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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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Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
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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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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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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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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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Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
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On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
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