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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

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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Country Cutting Fighting
For the longest time in Denmark I didn’t want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant.
BJORN LOMBORG

Country Irrelevant Longest Time Want
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Get Better Messages Trying
To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring.
BJORN LOMBORG

Challenge Choices Way
Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.
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Groups Issues Needs
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Long Running Technology
Winter regularly takes many more lives than any heat wave: 25,000 to 50,000 each year die in Britain from excess cold.
BJORN LOMBORG

Europe Winter Years
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Cutting Hiv Water
So it’s mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
BJORN LOMBORG

Helping Overcoming World
Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
BJORN LOMBORG

Policy Sound Thinking
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
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
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Earth People Thinking Understand Views
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

Important Men Problem Real World
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?
BJORN LOMBORG

Course Hands Important Moving
We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN.
BJORN LOMBORG

Numbers Past Worry

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.

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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.

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