The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.
BJORN LOMBORGI 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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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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Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.
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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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There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.
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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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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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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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We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN.
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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.
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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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On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
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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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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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Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
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