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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.

Bjorn Lomborg

On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
BJORN LOMBORG

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
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.
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Problem Technology World
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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Long Running Technology
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
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
Across Europe, there are six times more cold-related deaths than heat-related deaths…by 2050…Warmer temperatures will save 1.4 million lives each year.
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Across Countries Death Relative
So it’s mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
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Helping Overcoming World
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
We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them.
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Energy Green Needs
Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.
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Groups Issues Needs
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
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
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 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
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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