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Bjorn Lomborg

Copenhagen, Denmark

Bjorn Lomborg is adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School, and author of the best-selling book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, where he challenges our understanding of the environment, and points out how we need to focus our attention on the most important problems first. His first book has been published in the major languages around the world and he is a frequent participant in the current debate, with commentaries in such places as New York Times, Wall St. Journal, Globe & Mail, The Guardian, The Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Times, The Australian, the Economist. He has also appeared on TV, such places as Politically Incorrect, ABC 60 minutes, CNN, BBC, CNBC, and PBS. In May 2004 he organized the "Copenhagen Consensus" which brought together some of the world's top economists. Close.

Bjorn Lomborg

Copenhagen, Denmark

Bjorn Lomborg is adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School, and author of the best-selling book, The Skeptical Environmentalist. more »

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February 1, 2007 10:20 AM

Get Your Priorities Straight

The question is wrongly put. Imagine if our forefathers 100 years ago had known about global warming. Would we have thanked them for not using fossil fuels even if it left us much poorer, able to do less, having say, 4 billion people living on $1-a-day rather than 1 billion? I certainly don't
think so. The refrigerator, for example, has saved us from eating bad, rotten food. So stomach cancer has dropped from being the most prevalent form of cancer in 1900 to the lowest today.

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