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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.

Bjorn Lomborg

We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them.
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Energy Green Needs
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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Believe Karma Religious
There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.
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Expensive Incredible Something Wrong
My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.
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Drinking Suggestions Water
On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
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Average Global Warming World
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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Get Better Messages Trying
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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Country Cutting Fighting
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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Carbon Cutting Emissions Mean
Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
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Computer Making Nobody Panels Solar Wanted
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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Earth People Thinking Understand Views
The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.
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Cost Kyoto Years
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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Global Long Thinking Want Warming
Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.
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Groups Issues Needs
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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Men Old Thinking World Worried
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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Important Men Problem Real World
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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Cutting Hiv Water

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