We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them.
BJORN LOMBORGI 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.
More Bjorn Lomborg Quotes
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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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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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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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There is no question that global warming will have a significant impact on already existing problems such as malaria, malnutrition, and water shortages. But this doesn’t mean the best way to solve them is to cut carbon emissions.
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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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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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We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN.
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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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Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.
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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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Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
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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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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 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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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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