Bjorn Lomborg Quotes

All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well.

Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.

Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening around us today, you can't help but feel that life is a terrible complexity of problems. But if you look back a few thousand years, you realize that we have advanced fantastically. If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of mankind.

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.

China's development benefits other countries.

By the year 2040, the world's population is likely to increase by about 2 billion people, with also projected economic output will be up about 130 percent versus the year 2010.

For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.

People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don't believe globalisation is bad. It's criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.

I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

I'm extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.

To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.

At the same time, we are keenly aware that China is still the largest developing country in the world and we need to make long and hard efforts if we are to build a moderately prosperous society in all respects and basically achieve modernization.

A tin roof is one of the greatest indicators of prosperity in the developing world.

We must embark on a bold new program for ... the improvement and growth of undeveloped areas. More than half the people of the world are living in conditions approaching misery .... For the first time in history, humanity possesses the knowledge and skill to relieve the suffering of these people.

We are living in a Golden Age, the most gilded Golden Age of human history—not only of past history, but of future history.

In recent times, modern science has developed to give mankind, for the first time in the history of the human race, a way of securing a more abundant life which does not simply consist in taking away from someone else.... Science really creates wealth and opportunity which did not exist before.

More goods and fewer people" is the slogan I should like to see carried at the head of humanity's march into the future.

More people in more countries, both developing and developed, have experienced larger increases in living standards than in any prior fifty year period.

India, China, and Latin America have a tremendous stake in the people's century. As their masses learn to read and write, and as they become productive mechanics, their standard of living will double and treble.