Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
BJORN LOMBORGObviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.
More Bjorn Lomborg Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
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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 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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If every country committed to spending 0.05 per cent of GDP on researching non-carbon-emitting energy technologies, that would cost $25 billion a year, and it would do a lot more than massive carbon cuts to fight warming and save lives.
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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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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.
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Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.
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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.
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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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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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