Bjorn Lomborg Quotes

• Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Public, Policy

• When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity’s lot has improved dramatically – in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Thinking

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Worry

• 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.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Energy

• To some, a cap-and-trade system might sound like a neat approach where the market sorts everything out. But in fact, in some ways it is worse than a tax. With a tax, the costs are obvious. With a cap-and-trade system, the costs are hidden and shifted around. For that reason, many politicians tend to like it. But that is dangerous.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Trade

• 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.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Topics in Challenge

• There is no question that global warming will have a significant impact on already existing problems such as malaria, malnutrition, and water shortages. But this doesn’t mean the best way to solve them is to cut carbon emissions.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Global Warming

• ‘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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Idea

• The saddest fact of climate change – and the chief reason we should be concerned about finding a proper response – is that the countries it will hit hardest are already among the poorest and most long-suffering.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Climate, Change

• 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.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change, Global

• 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

  Topics in Challenge

  Tags in Poverty

• 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

  Topics in Nature

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Occupational

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Right

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Great

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Global

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Problem

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

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Suggestions

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

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Needs, Group

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Problems

Bjorn Lomborg (30)

Birth:	6th January, 1965
Nationality:	Danish
Profession:	Author, Political Scientist, Professor, Statistician

About

Bjorn Lomborg is a Danish author, political scientist, statistician. He is the director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and a former director of the Environmental Assessment Institute in Copenhagen. He became internationally known for his best-selling and controversial book, The Skeptical Environmentalist. In 2002, Lomborg and the Environmental Assessment Institute founded the Copenhagen Consensus, a project-based conference where prominent economists sought to establish priorities for advancing global welfare using methods based on the theory of welfare economics. Lomborg spent a year as an undergraduate at the University of Georgia, earned an M.A. degree in political science at the University of Aarhus in 1991, and a Ph.D. degree in political science at the University of Copenhagen in 1994. He lectured in statistics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Aarhus as an assistant professor and associate professor. He left the university in February 2005 and in May of that year became an Adjunct Professor at Copenhagen Business School.

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