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Lomborg emphasizes that most plastics and pollution are double-edged: they provide undeniable benefits such as food preservation, packaging, and medical supplies, especially crucial during the COVID-19 pandemic. The challenge is balancing benefits and harms through better technology and smarter policies, rather than banning or over-regulating everything.
He advocates for simple, scalable solutions—like regulation, innovation, and improved waste management—over complex "green" schemes that often produce marginal gains at enormous costs.