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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.

Bjorn Lomborg

The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.
BJORN LOMBORG

Cost Kyoto Years
Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
BJORN LOMBORG

Policy Sound Thinking
To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring.
BJORN LOMBORG

Challenge Choices Way
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
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
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
My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.
BJORN LOMBORG

Drinking Suggestions Water
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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Catching Done Fish Tanks Mean More
We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN.
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Numbers Past Worry
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
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
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Catastrophes Dropped Fold Iverm Death
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Long Running Technology
So it’s mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
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Helping Overcoming World
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
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

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