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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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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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There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.
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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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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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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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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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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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We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN.
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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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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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Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.
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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 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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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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