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On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.

Bjorn Lomborg

For the longest time in Denmark I didn’t want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant.
BJORN LOMBORG

Country Irrelevant Longest Time Want
My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.
BJORN LOMBORG

Drinking Suggestions Water
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Cutting Hiv Water
The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term.
BJORN LOMBORG

Global Long Thinking Want Warming
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Get Better Messages Trying
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Catching Done Fish Tanks Mean More
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
Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
BJORN LOMBORG

Computer Making Nobody Panels Solar Wanted
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Problem Technology World
Winter regularly takes many more lives than any heat wave: 25,000 to 50,000 each year die in Britain from excess cold.
BJORN LOMBORG

Europe Winter Years
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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Across Countries Death Relative
We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN.
BJORN LOMBORG

Numbers Past Worry
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Global Listen Real Sea Years
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
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Carbon Cutting Emissions Mean
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Choices Consider Identity Policy

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