Global warming is real – it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.
BJORN LOMBORGFor the longest time in Denmark I didn’t want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant.
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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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We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN.
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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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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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Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.
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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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My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.
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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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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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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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Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
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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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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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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.
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On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
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