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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

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

Average Global Warming World
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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Found Great Intellectual Plato Sausage University
The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.
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Cost Kyoto Years
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
Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.
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Groups Issues Needs
Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
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Policy Sound Thinking
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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Course Hands Important Moving
My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.
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Drinking Suggestions Water
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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Europe Winter Years
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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Global Listen Real Sea 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
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
Surely the biggest problem we have in the world is that we all die. But we don’t have a technology to solve that, right? So the point is not to prioritize problems; the point is to prioritize solutions to problems.
BJORN LOMBORG

Problem Technology World
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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Carbon Cutting Emissions Mean
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

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.

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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.

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