We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them.
BJORN LOMBORGThere 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.
More Bjorn Lomborg Quotes
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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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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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Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
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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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There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.
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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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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 found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment.
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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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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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We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN.
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On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
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Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
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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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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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