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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.

Bjorn Lomborg

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
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
Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.
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Groups Issues Needs
Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
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Computer Making Nobody Panels Solar Wanted
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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Country Irrelevant Longest Time Want
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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Long Running Technology
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.
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Cutting Hiv Water
There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.
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Expensive Incredible Something Wrong
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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Important Men Problem Real World
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
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
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
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.
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Earth People Thinking Understand Views
We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN.
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Numbers Past Worry
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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Catching Done Fish Tanks Mean More
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

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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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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