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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.

Bjorn Lomborg

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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Believe Karma Religious
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Choices Consider Identity Policy
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Found Great Intellectual Plato Sausage University
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Global Listen Real Sea Years
Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
BJORN LOMBORG

Policy Sound Thinking
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Across Countries Death Relative
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Country Cutting Fighting
Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
BJORN LOMBORG

Computer Making Nobody Panels Solar Wanted
We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them.
BJORN LOMBORG

Energy Green Needs
So it’s mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
BJORN LOMBORG

Helping Overcoming World
Winter regularly takes many more lives than any heat wave: 25,000 to 50,000 each year die in Britain from excess cold.
BJORN LOMBORG

Europe Winter Years
On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
BJORN LOMBORG

Average Global Warming World
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Long Running Technology
I’m an old member of Greenpeace. I worried intensely, as I think most of my friends did, that the world was coming apart.
BJORN LOMBORG

Men Old Thinking World Worried
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Catastrophes Dropped Fold Iverm Death
The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term.
BJORN LOMBORG

Global Long Thinking Want Warming

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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