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Bjorn Lomborg

(1965) Economist

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Bjorn Lomborg is an economist, best known for How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place.

Quick Facts About Bjorn Lomborg

Born: January 6, 1965
Profession: Economist
Notable works: How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place

About Bjorn Lomborg

Bjørn Lomborg is a Danish political scientist and the president of the think tank Copenhagen Consensus Center. He is the former director of the Danish government's Environmental Assessment Institute (EAI) in Copenhagen. He became internationally known for his best-selling book The Skeptical Environmentalist (2001).

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Bjorn Lomborg · Page 2

“When a company (e.g. Enron) is calling for more environmental regulation, we need to look very carefully at what they might stand…

Business

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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…

Carbon dioxide

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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.…

Acknowledge

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We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find…

Aware

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We've had the U.N. for almost 60 years, yet we've never actually made a fundamental list of all the big things that…

Activism

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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…

Am

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“Climate policies often make life WORSE specifically for the poor...Choosing climate policies over growth policies doesn’t just do nothing. It means more…

Change

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So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.

Effects

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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…

Catastrophe

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“Only when we get sufficiently rich can we afford the relative luxury of caring about the environment.”

Environment

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“The Paris Agreement will have no perceptible impact on malaria because it will lead to such small temperature changes; in fact, it…

False-alarm

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“We should be innovating tomorrow’s technologies rather than erecting today’s inefficient turbines and solar panels. We should explore fusion, fission, water splitting,…

False-alarm

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“What matters most is that we make sure that the most vulnerable, worst-off people living in shantytowns are lifted out of poverty.…

Carbon dioxide

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“The Paris Agreement will cost a fortune to carry out and do almost no good… Every single major industrialized country is failing…

Bad idea

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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…

Get better

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“The science shows us that fears of a climate apocalypse are unfounded. Global warming is real, but it is not the end…

Change

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“Cold homes are one of the leading causes of deaths in winter… A climate policy reversing the price reduction due to fracking…

Death

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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…

Carbon

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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…

End of the world

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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…

Account

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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…

Believe

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Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.

Attention

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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…

Ailment

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The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is…

Expensive

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“People are panicking about climate change in large part because the media and environmental campaigners tell us to, because politicians overhype the…

Change

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