To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad … - Bjorn Lomborg

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Today is the most wonderful day of your life. This moment represents eternity. It is the moment when you return to love by deciding to live in communion with our Creator.

Bjorn Lomborg

To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring. If our starting point is to prove that Armageddon is on its way, we will not consider all of the evidence, and will not identify the smartest policy choices.

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

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The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.

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Winter regularly takes many more lives than any heat wave: 25,000 to 50,000 each year die in Britain from excess cold. Across Europe, there are six times more cold-related deaths than heat-related deaths. . . by 2050. . . Warmer temperatures will save 1. 4 million lives each year.

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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.

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We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them. Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.

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