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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?

Bjorn Lomborg

Global warming is real – it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.
BJORN LOMBORG

Important Men Problem Real World
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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Country Irrelevant Longest Time Want
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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Country Cutting Fighting
The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.
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Cost Kyoto Years
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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Catastrophes Dropped Fold Iverm Death
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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Europe Winter Years
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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Men Old Thinking World Worried
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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Believe Karma Religious
My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.
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Drinking Suggestions Water
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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Problem Technology World
So it’s mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
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Helping Overcoming World
We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them.
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Energy Green Needs
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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Global Long Thinking Want Warming
Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
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Computer Making Nobody Panels Solar Wanted
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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Course Hands Important Moving
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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