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Bjørn Lomborg

Danish author and policy analyst

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Argues that climate policy should be weighed against other priorities such as health and poverty, and favors research into clean energy over costly emissions cuts.

Bjørn Lomborg sits in the right-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: leaning free market and slightly libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly tech-optimist on technology, leaning globalist on nation and leaning free market on economy. The profile is close to the middle on interventionism.

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Where Bjørn Lomborg sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyLeaning free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authoritySlightly libertarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureSlightly progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning globalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentSlightly growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyStrongly tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceSlightly peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsSlightly institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismCentered on interventionism
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Bjørn Lomborg

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People furthest from Bjørn Lomborg

Ruhollah Khomeini Supreme Leader of Iran, 1979 to 198916%Mojtaba Khamenei Supreme Leader of Iran, 2026 to present17%Benito Mussolini Prime Minister of Italy, 1922 to 194319%Vladimir Putin President of Russia, 2000 to present (with a term as prime minister)19%

Political views closest to Bjørn Lomborg

Techno-optimismTrusts science, engineering and expert management to solve problems and wants technology…98%Classical liberalismIndividual rights, limited government, free markets and the rule of law.98%Effective accelerationismArgues that rapid technological progress, especially in AI and energy, is the best path…96%Eco-modernismArgues that technology such as nuclear power, intensive farming and urbanization can…96%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Christian Ursilva, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.