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
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.… — 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… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
“Global temperature and GDP are both rising, and each affects the other… We have to find the right balance between the two factors. If… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
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… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
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… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
“The negative impacts (of biofuels) were much greater than most had anticipated...the amount of crops needed to fill an SUV’s fuel tank with biofuel… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
