Bjorn Lomborg quotes: top famous quotes and sayings by Bjorn Lomborg

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1. "We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them. Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them." ~ Bjorn Lomborg

2. "I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation, karma, all that stuff." ~ Bjorn Lomborg

3. "I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that things are getting better, but there are still problems." ~ Bjorn Lomborg

4. "I'm a vegetarian, but I don't expect other people not to eat meat." ~ Bjorn Lomborg

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

6. "Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be more expensive than the original ailment." ~ Bjorn Lomborg

7. "Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues." ~ Bjorn Lomborg

8. "Even if every major government were to slap huge taxes on carbon fuels - which is not going to happen - it wouldn't do much to halt climate change any time soon. What it would do is cost us hundreds of billions - if not trillions - of dollars, because alternative energy technologies are not yet ready to take up the slack." ~ Bjorn Lomborg

9. "I think Al Gore has done a great service in making global warming cool. He's basically taken it from a nerdy, almost ignored issue to making it what it is - namely, a problem." ~ Bjorn Lomborg

10. "If we invest in researching and developing energy technology, we'll do some real good in the long run, rather than just making ourselves feel good today. But climate change is not the only challenge of the 21st century, and for many other global problems we have low-cost, durable solutions." ~ Bjorn Lomborg

11. "It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount of, say, six degrees warming, but it's likely that we'll get two to three degrees warming and that will be serious enough." ~ Bjorn Lomborg

12. "We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century." ~ Bjorn Lomborg

13. "A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph." ~ Bjorn Lomborg

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