The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.
BJORN LOMBORGMy suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.
More Bjorn Lomborg Quotes
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I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment.
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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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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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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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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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On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
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Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
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Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought 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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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?
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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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Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.
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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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