For the longest time in Denmark I didn’t want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant.
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.
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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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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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There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.
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We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them.
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Global warming is real – it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.
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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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So it’s mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
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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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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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Across Europe, there are six times more cold-related deaths than heat-related deaths…by 2050…Warmer temperatures will save 1.4 million lives each year.
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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.
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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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On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
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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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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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