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 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.
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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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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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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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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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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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The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.
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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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So it’s mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
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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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We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them.
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On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
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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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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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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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