Bjorn Lomborg Quotes

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

God, Home, Karma

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

Nature, Through, Word

But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression.
Bjorn Lomborg

Best, Book, Wrong

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

Change, Time, Government

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 independently if I'm right or left.
Bjorn Lomborg

Bad, Wrong, Whether

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

Time, Thought, Longest

Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.
Bjorn Lomborg

End, Important, Real

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

Great, Thought, Wanted

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

Good, Try, Problems

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

Great, Cool, Done

I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view.
Bjorn Lomborg

Great, Society, Understand

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

Expect, Eat, Vegetarian

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

Friends, Old, Coming

I'm no expert on American politics.
Bjorn Lomborg

Politics, American, Expert

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

Fight, Country, Energy

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

Change, Good, Technology

In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.
Bjorn Lomborg

Important, Rich, Since

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

Two, Enough, Serious

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

Mean, Problem, Original

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

End, Real, Problem

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 to say that for other people, but not themselves.
Bjorn Lomborg

Happy, Happen, Put

Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.
Bjorn Lomborg

Education, Health, Money

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

Work, Water, Drinking

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

Attention, Group, Needs

Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?
Bjorn Lomborg

Moving, Important, Problems

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Biography

Nationality: Danish

Type: Scientist

Born: January 6, 1965

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