78 Quotes by Bjorn Lomborg

Im no expert on American politics.

We've had the U.N. for almost 60 years, yet we've never actually made a fundamental list of all the big things that we can do in the world, and said, 'Which of them should we do first?'

Surely the biggest problem we have in the world is that we all die. But we don't have a technology to solve that, right? So the point is not to prioritize problems; the point is to prioritize solutions to problems.

The total efforts of the last 20 years of climate policy has likely reduced global emissions by less than 1 percent, or about 250 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.

The people who are still starving today are not starving because we can't feed them, but because they don't have money enough to buy food.

There are so many other things we can do that will do so much more good, that will help people in need now, much better and much more efficiently.

We're talking about probably five to eight trillion dollars on the total cost of global warming, and we'd much rather not have that.

I really have to stress, I don't have a positive view. I'm not here to cheer people up. If the bottom line was negative, that is what we should say.

In the same way, we have to investigate the solar mechanism, but right now, the IPC claims that it's probably not the main cause.