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?
BJORN LOMBORGOn average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
More Bjorn Lomborg Quotes
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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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To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring.
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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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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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Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
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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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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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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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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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On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
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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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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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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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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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