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 LOMBORGTo prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring.
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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There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.
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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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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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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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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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I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment.
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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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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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Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
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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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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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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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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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Across Europe, there are six times more cold-related deaths than heat-related deaths…by 2050…Warmer temperatures will save 1.4 million lives each year.
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