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.
BJORN LOMBORGThe 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.
More Bjorn Lomborg Quotes
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We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them.
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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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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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Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
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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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Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
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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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The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.
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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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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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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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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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