There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.
BJORN LOMBORGThe 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 think it’s great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view.
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Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it’s not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn’t over the last 150 years.
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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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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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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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So it’s mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
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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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My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking 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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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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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’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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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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