We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them.
BJORN LOMBORGIf 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.
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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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So it’s mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
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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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Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
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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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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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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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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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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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We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN.
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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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Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
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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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My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.
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