"To prepare adequately for the challenge of global……" — Bjorn Lomborg
"To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring. If our starting point is to prove that Armageddon is on its way, we will not consider all of the evidence, and will not identify the smartest policy choices."
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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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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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Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong,…
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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but…
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The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.
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I play the baritone horn - which is like a mini tuba, and is the least sexy instrument you can…
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If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my…
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Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of…
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your…
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I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind…
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When we experience our fear, when we say the words "I am scared," we have the choice, the ability to…
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