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.
BJORN LOMBORGSo it’s mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
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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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On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
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There is no question that global warming will have a significant impact on already existing problems such as malaria, malnutrition, and water shortages. But this doesn’t mean the best way to solve them is to cut carbon emissions.
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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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We see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.
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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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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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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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We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN.
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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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Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
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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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