We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN.
BJORN LOMBORGTo 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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So it’s mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
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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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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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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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Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
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We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them.
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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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Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.
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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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On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
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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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Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
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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 Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.
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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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