Even if every major government were to slap huge taxes on carbon fuels - which is not going to happen - it wouldn't do much to halt climate change any time soon. What it would do is cost us hundreds… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things. — 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
