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.
BJORN LOMBORGI 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.
More Bjorn Lomborg Quotes
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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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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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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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Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.
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On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
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We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them.
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There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.
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Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
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Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
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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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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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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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So it’s mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
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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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