Bjorn Lomborg

“Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.”

“We are not running out of energy or natural resources. We are running out of political will, and we are running out of political courage.”

“We should focus our efforts on the issues that will do the most good for the most people.”

“Many of the alarmist predictions that are touted in the media are simply not based on solid science.”

“We need to get our priorities right. The global warming debate has become a gigantic distraction from the things that we can do, and should do, today.”

“The cost of Kyoto will be huge and the effect will be tiny.”

“I am not a climate change denier. But I am skeptical about the doom-and-gloom scenarios that are often presented.”

“The way to do good is not to waste money on things that don't work.”

“If we don't have a vigorous debate, we're not going to get good policy.”

“If we could do something that would get everybody in the world clean drinking water and sanitation, that would be a fantastic thing.”

“Polar bears are not in peril.”

“The solution to global warming is not to make everybody poorer, but to make everybody richer, so they can afford to pay for the solutions.”

“Technology will find substitutes for most resources. The real problem is not a lack of resources, but a lack of institutions to manage them well.”