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The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. W

The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you dont know where your next meal is coming from, its hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line. – Bjorn Lomborg

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If we invest in researching and developing energy technology, well do some real good in the long run, rather than just making ourselves feel good today. But climate change is not the only challenge of the 21st century, and for many other global problems we have low-cost, durable solutions. – Bjorn Lomborg

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Money spent on carbon cuts is money we cant use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation. – Bjorn Lomborg

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Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost. – Vivienne Westwood

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Ive always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But Im willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, well have to-in order to increase another place, Im willing to do that. – Judd Gregg

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Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections. – Peter DeFazio

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It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly, not only will you get better environmental outcomes, you have a chance to create more wealth with the available resource. – John Anderson

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