'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 argumentcontextenvironmentalist Change image and share on social
The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty. Bjorn Lomborg cleancostdrink Change image and share on social
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 amountdegreeeffect share on social
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. Bjorn Lomborg 21stcenturychallenge Change image and share on social
The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010. Bjorn Lomborg billioncostestimate Change image and share on social
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 comefriendgreenpeace Change image and share on social
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 bookfootnotehazard share on social
Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues. Bjorn Lomborg attentionfundgroup Change image and share on social
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 number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century. Bjorn Lomborg catastrophecenturycnn share on social
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 ailmentcureexpensive Change image and share on social