"Money spent on carbon cuts is money we……" — Bjorn Lomborg
"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 clean water and sanitation."
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44 Quotes by Bjorn Lomborg
Bjorn Lomborg has 44 quotes on this site.
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Winter regularly takes many more lives than any heat wave: 25,000 to 50,000 each year die in Britain from excess…
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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…
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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.…
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Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now…
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On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
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The only thing that will really change global warming in the long run is if we radically increase the speed…
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It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious,…
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Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end…
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To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it…
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There is no question that global warming will have a significant impact on already existing problems such as malaria, malnutrition,…
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Surely the biggest problem we have in the world is that we all die. But we don't have a technology…
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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…
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More Aid Quotes
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief;…
— Aristotle
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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible;…
— Charles Babbage
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Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their…
— Conrad Black
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U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with…
— Bono
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
— James Buchan
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Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while…
— James Buchan
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At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call,…
— James Buchan
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all…
— Edmund Burke
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
— Paul Cezanne
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It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the…
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual…
— William Ellery Channing
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