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 LOMBORGWinter 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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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’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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So it’s mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
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On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
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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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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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The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.
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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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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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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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Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.
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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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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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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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