Environment Quote by Bjorn Lomborg

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

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For the longest time in Denmark I didn't want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant.

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It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the…

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I'm an old member of Greenpeace. I worried intensely, as I think most of my friends did, that the world was coming apart.

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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…

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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…

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Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

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“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 income inequality. They are blind, however, to the fact that the costs of the policies they demand will be borne disproportionately by the world’s poorest. This is because so much of climate change policy boils down…

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“Global temperature and GDP are both rising, and each affects the other… We have to find the right balance between the two factors. If we focus solely on growing global GDP, we risk temperatures rising to such an extent that the negative impact on our well-being will more than offset the benefits brought about by extra growth. Yet, if we…

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The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than…

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My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.

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“We should not confuse the rising costs of flooding with flooding itself (or indeed with climate change). It is entirely caused by more houses and more wealth; in fact, the cost compared to the US national income had declined almost tenfold. If we want to reduce this amount even more, the solution isn’t to be found in radically reducing carbon…

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