If every country committed to spending 0.05 per cent of GDP on researching non-carbon-emitting energy technologies, that would cost $25 billion a year, and it would do a lot more than massive carbon cuts to fight warming and save lives.
Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education inf… - 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 inf…
- Bjorn Lomborg
The only thing that will really change global warming in the long run is if we radically increase the speed with which we get alternative technologie… - Bjorn Lomborg
The only thing that will really change global warming in the long run is if we radically increase the speed with which we get alternative technologie…
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… - 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…
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 numb… - Bjorn Lomborg
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 numb…
My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation. - Bjorn Lomborg
My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.
Winter regularly takes many more lives than any heat wave: 25,000 to 50,000 each year die in Britain from excess cold. Across Europe, there are six … - 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 Europe, there are six …
On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world. - Bjorn Lomborg
On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we… - Bjorn Lomborg
The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we…
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 deg… - Bjorn Lomborg
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 deg…
Login to join the discussion
Login to join the discussion