78 Quotes by Bjorn Lomborg

The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.

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 technologies to deal with climate change.

'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.

On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.

There is no doubt that we should take solar radiation into account. We have seen ground temperatures rising since 1975, and it is important to know to what extent that has been caused by the sun or by carbon dioxide.

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?

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.

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

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