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I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment.

~Bjorn Lomborg

Topics: Chose Course Enter Entered Environment Factory Found Great Halls Instead Intellectual Little Main Plato Sausage Something Thought University Wanted Would

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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.

~Bjorn Lomborg

Topics: Denmark Irrelevant Longest Longest Time Politically Say Thought Time Want

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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

Topics: Al Al Gore Almost Basically Cool Done Global Global Warming Gore Great He Ignored Issue Making Namely Nerdy Problem Service Taken Think Warming I Think

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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.

~Bjorn Lomborg

Topics: Apart Coming Did Friends Greenpeace Intensely Member Most Old Think World Worried I Think

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To some, a cap-and-trade system might sound like a neat approach where the market sorts everything out. But in fact, in some ways it is worse than a tax. With a tax, the costs are obvious. With a cap-and-trade system, the costs are hidden and shifted around. For that reason, many politicians tend to like it. But that is dangerous.

~Bjorn Lomborg

Topics: Approach Around Costs Dangerous Everything Fact Hidden In Fact Like Many Market Might Neat Obvious Out Politicians Reason Shifted Some Sort Sound System Tax Tend Than Ways Where Worse

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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

Topics: Century Challenge Change Climate Climate Change Developing Durable Energy Feel Feel Good Global Good Invest Just Long Long Run Low-Cost Making Many Only Other Ourselves Problems Rather Real Researching Run Solutions Some Technology Than Today 21St Century

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I'm no expert on American politics.

~Bjorn Lomborg

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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.

~Bjorn Lomborg

Topics: Billion Carbon Cent Committed Cost Country Cuts Energy Every Fight Lives Lot Massive More Per Researching Save Spending Technologies Than Warming Would Year Gdp

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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 is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn't over the last 150 years.

~Bjorn Lomborg

Topics: Bring End End Of The World Global Global Warming Going Just Last Level Like Listen Over Problem Real Real Problem Rise Sea Standstill Warming World Years

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'The Skeptical Environmentalist' was much more the idea of the scientific argument of realizing that we need to be skeptical about a lot of these stories that we hear and to put them in context.

~Bjorn Lomborg

Topics: About Argument Context Environmentalist Hear Idea Lot More Much Need Put Realizing Scientific Skeptical Stories Them

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Biography

Nationality: Danish

Type: Scientist

Born: January 6th, 1965

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