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 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.
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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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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Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
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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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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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My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.
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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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On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
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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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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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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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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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So it’s mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
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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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