Carbon Quotes by Bjorn Lomborg

8 Carbon quotes by Bjorn Lomborg

Bjorn Lomborg’s pragmatic view appears in eight concise statements about carbon. Though the collection is limited, each line delivers his characteristic focus on cost‑benefit analysis.

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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…

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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…

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Even if every major government were to slap huge taxes on carbon fuels - which is not going to happen - it…

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“A carbon tax forces you to take into account the climate disbenefits that your purchase is responsible for, so you can weigh…

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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…

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“Biomass, which basically is a fancy-sounding name for wood, is one of the old, reliable renewables that can produce energy when it…

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The total efforts of the last 20 years of climate policy has likely reduced global emissions by less than 1 percent, or…

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There is no doubt that we should take solar radiation into account. We have seen ground temperatures rising since 1975, and it…

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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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It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the…

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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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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…

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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…

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Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

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“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…

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“Global temperature and GDP are both rising, and each affects the other… We have to find the right balance between the two factors. If…

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The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than…

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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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“We should not confuse the rising costs of flooding with flooding itself (or indeed with climate change). It is entirely caused by more houses…

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