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 LOMBORGSo it’s mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
More Bjorn Lomborg Quotes
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Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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’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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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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There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.
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