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LSE SU Economics Society & LSE Geography and Environment Department public lecture
Global warming is real, but it is often presented one-sided and in exaggerated form. This leads to bad policies that will do little to tackle the warming at extremely high cost, as evidenced by the Kyoto protocol and the new EU promises. The breakdown at Copenhagen shows that we need smarter solutions focused on getting long-term solutions like renewables that are cheaper than fossil fuels. And finally, we should remember, that if we really want to help the world, there are many other and better things we could focus on first, like malnutrition, free trade, vaccines, education, agricultural technology, education etc.
Bjørn Lomborg is adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School. He is the organiser of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, which brings together some of the world's top economists, including 5 Nobel laureates, to set priorities for the world. Time magazine named Lomborg one of the world's 100 most influential people in 2004. In 2008 he was named "one of the 50 people who could save the planet" by the UK Guardian; "one of the top 100 public intellectuals" by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazine; and "one of the world's 75 most influential people of the 21st century" by Esquire.
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Professor Bjørn Lomborg | talks |
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Date and Time: |
16 February 2011 at 6:30 pm |
Duration: | 1 hour 30 minutes |
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Venue: |
New Theatre |
Organised by: |
London School of Economics & Political Science |
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Tickets: |
Free |
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Please note a new online ticket allocation system will operate from 1 January 2011. This new system is being trialled in light of feedback received from users who have experienced problems when demand for tickets is so high that the website either crashes or runs very slowly. We hope this new system will alleviate these problems. This event is free and open to all however a ticket is required. One ticket per person can be requested on Wednesday 9 February. LSE students and staff are able to collect one ticket from the New Academic Building SU shop, located on the Kingsway side of the building from 10.00am on Wednesday 9 February. Members of the public, LSE staff and alumni can request one ticket via the online ticket request form which will be live on the event weblisting after 10.00am on Wednesday 9 February. The ticket request form will be online for around an hour from going live. If after an hour we have received more requests than there are tickets available, the line will be closed, and tickets will be allocated on a random basis to those requests received. If after an hour we have received fewer requests than tickets available, the ticket line will stay open until all tickets have been allocated. Event weblisting: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2011/20110216t1830vNT.aspx |
Additional Information: |
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