There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.
BJORN LOMBORGWe worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN.
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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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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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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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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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My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.
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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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The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.
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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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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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Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
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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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On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
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Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
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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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