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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

The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term.
BJORN LOMBORG

Global Long Thinking Want Warming
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Choices Consider Identity Policy
Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
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Policy Sound Thinking
We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN.
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Numbers Past Worry
So it’s mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
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Helping Overcoming World
On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
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Average Global Warming World
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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Global Listen Real Sea Years
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
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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Catching Done Fish Tanks Mean More
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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Course Hands Important Moving
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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Europe Winter Years
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
I’m an old member of Greenpeace. I worried intensely, as I think most of my friends did, that the world was coming apart.
BJORN LOMBORG

Men Old Thinking World Worried
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Found Great Intellectual Plato Sausage University
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
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Catastrophes Dropped Fold Iverm Death

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