We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them.
BJORN LOMBORGThe Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.
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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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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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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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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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Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
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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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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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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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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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We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN.
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Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
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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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So it’s mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
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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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