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… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If every country committed to spending 0.05 per cent of GDP on researching non-carbon-emitting energy technologies, that would cost $25 billion a year, and… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
For the longest time in Denmark I didn't want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant. — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
Lots of people say we should fly less, heat less, and put on a sweater. But it's not going to happen. People are happy… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
“One of the great ironies of climate change activism today is that many of the movement’s most vocal proponents are also horrified by global income inequality. They are blind, however, to the fact that the costs of the policies they demand will be borne disproportionately by the world’s poorest. This is because so much of climate change policy boils down… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share
“Global temperature and GDP are both rising, and each affects the other… We have to find the right balance between the two factors. If we focus solely on growing global GDP, we risk temperatures rising to such an extent that the negative impact on our well-being will more than offset the benefits brought about by extra growth. Yet, if we… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share
The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation. — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
“We should not confuse the rising costs of flooding with flooding itself (or indeed with climate change). It is entirely caused by more houses and more wealth; in fact, the cost compared to the US national income had declined almost tenfold. If we want to reduce this amount even more, the solution isn’t to be found in radically reducing carbon… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share
