We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them.
BJORN LOMBORGSurely 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.
More Bjorn Lomborg Quotes
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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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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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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 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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There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.
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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 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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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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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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We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN.
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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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Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
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Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
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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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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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