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We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN.

Bjorn Lomborg

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
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.
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Choices Consider Identity Policy
On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
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Average Global Warming World
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
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
There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.
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Expensive Incredible Something Wrong
To 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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Challenge Choices Way
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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Long Running Technology
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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Found Great Intellectual Plato Sausage University
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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Cutting Hiv Water
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
Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
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Policy Sound Thinking
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
We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them.
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Energy Green Needs
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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Carbon Cutting Emissions Mean
So it’s mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
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Helping Overcoming World

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