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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.

Bjorn Lomborg

The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term.
BJORN LOMBORG

Global Long Thinking Want Warming
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Found Great Intellectual Plato Sausage University
Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
BJORN LOMBORG

Policy Sound Thinking
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

Choices Consider Identity Policy
Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.
BJORN LOMBORG

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?
BJORN LOMBORG

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

Average Global Warming World
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
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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Men Old Thinking World Worried
We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them.
BJORN LOMBORG

Energy Green Needs
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Catching Done Fish Tanks Mean More
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
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
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
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.
BJORN LOMBORG

Carbon Cutting Emissions Mean
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

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