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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
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Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be more expensive than the original ailment. - Bjorn Lomborg
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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. - Bjorn Lomborg
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A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph. - Bjorn Lomborg
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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
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In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing. - Bjorn Lomborg
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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. - Bjorn Lomborg
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When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years. - Bjorn Lomborg
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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. - Bjorn Lomborg
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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. 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
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The saddest fact of climate change - and the chief reason we should be concerned about finding a proper response - is that the countries it will hit hardest are already among the poorest and most long-suffering. - Bjorn Lomborg
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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. - Bjorn Lomborg
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We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - 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
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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
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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. - Bjorn Lomborg
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My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation. - Bjorn Lomborg
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We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them. Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them. - Bjorn Lomborg
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'The Skeptical Environmentalist' was much more the idea of the scientific argument of realizing that we need to be skeptical about a lot of these stories that we hear and to put them in context. - Bjorn Lomborg
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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. - Bjorn Lomborg
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Wishful thinking is not sound public policy. - Bjorn Lomborg
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I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation, karma, all that stuff. - Bjorn Lomborg
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The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line. - Bjorn Lomborg
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