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" Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world. "
End
World
Real
" In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing. "
Environmental
World
Situation
" I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation, karma, all that stuff. "
Home
World
Think
" 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. "
People
Great
Society
" 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. "
Serious
Two
Enough
" 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. "
Mean
Problem
Just Because
" 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. "
Water
Education
Food
" My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation. "
World
Work
Water
" Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues. "
Funding
Group
Issues
" 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? "
Moving
Direction
Hand
" On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world. "
Going
Average
Global Warming
" So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming. "
Global
Question
Third
" The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly. "
More
Places
Done
" The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010. "
Year
Treaty
Starting
" 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. "
Drinking Water
Water
Earth
" 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. "
Speed
Run
Long
" There is no doubt that we should take solar radiation into account. We have seen ground temperatures rising since 1975, and it is important to know to what extent that has been caused by the sun or by carbon dioxide. "
Doubt
Important
Know
" 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. "
Way
Problems
Mean
" 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. "
Saying
Start
Now
" Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy. "
Now
Energy
Think
" 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. "
Good
Choices
Bad
" We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find out who was right and who was wrong. But we have to go with the best information right now, which I would claim to be the IPCC reports. "
Community
Best
Now
" 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. "
Solar
Energy
Got
" When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things. "
Know
Business
Environment
" 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. "
Thinking
World
Past
" Wishful thinking is not sound public policy. "
Sound
Policy
Thinking
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