Bjorn Lomborg

The saddest fact of climate change - and the chief reason we should be concerned about finding a proper response - is…

— Bjorn Lomborg

“The expanding bull’s eye effect means we’re likely to see much more costly disasters happen over time, even if the climate doesn’t…

— Bjorn Lomborg

On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.

— Bjorn Lomborg

“The jarring fact is that humanity just finished spending two centuries GETTING RID OF renewable energy and replacing it with fossil fuels.…

— Bjorn Lomborg

To some, a cap-and-trade system might sound like a neat approach where the market sorts everything out. But in fact, in some…

— Bjorn Lomborg

Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about…

— Bjorn Lomborg

Im no expert on American politics.

— Bjorn Lomborg

I'm a vegetarian, but I don't expect other people not to eat meat.

— Bjorn Lomborg

If we invest in researching and developing energy technology, we'll do some real good in the long run, rather than just making…

— Bjorn Lomborg

“Choosing expensive carbon-cutting policies or insisting on green development approaches might seem like an easy choice for the world’s elite in Washington,…

— Bjorn Lomborg

I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out…

— Bjorn Lomborg

I think Al Gore has done a great service in making global warming cool. He's basically taken it from a nerdy, almost…

— Bjorn Lomborg

We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them. Nobody wanted to buy a…

— Bjorn Lomborg

“Adaptation is very effective at cooling cities, (e.g.) cool roofs and pavements… Adaptive actions can typically deliver much more protection much faster…

— Bjorn Lomborg

'The Skeptical Environmentalist' was much more the idea of the scientific argument of realizing that we need to be skeptical about a…

— Bjorn Lomborg

Surely the biggest problem we have in the world is that we all die. But we don't have a technology to solve…

— Bjorn Lomborg

When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are…

— Bjorn Lomborg

The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's…

— Bjorn Lomborg

In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution,…

— Bjorn Lomborg

...children born today-in both the industrialized world and developing countries-will live longer and be healthier, they will get more food, a better…

— Bjorn Lomborg

Winter regularly takes many more lives than any heat wave: 25,000 to 50,000 each year die in Britain from excess cold. Across…

— Bjorn Lomborg

I'm no expert on American politics.

— Bjorn Lomborg

Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally…

— Bjorn Lomborg

“Innovation has helped with problems in the past, e.g. whale oil use, horse manure in the streets, increasing grain yields. “When we…

— Bjorn Lomborg

I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls…

— Bjorn Lomborg