163. Is Everything Better Than We Think? | Bjorn Lomborg

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🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 118 minutes

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This episode was recorded on January 21, 2021. Dr. Bjorn Lomborg and I discuss a variety of topics in the realm of climate change and worldwide problems. We examine the claims made in his latest book False Alarm. Throughout the episode we touch on sustainable development goals, prioritizing problems for the world, achieving the highest return on investment, the apocalypse lens we apply to many global issues, making the poor richer, innovation, adaptation, selling and marketing solutions, and much more. Dr. Bjorn Lomborg is a Danish author and President of the think tank, Copenhagen Consensus Center. Bjorn champions a path to solving world problems through the use of economic research to determine where to spend our resources based on the return on investment and severity of the impending issue. Dr. Lomborg’s more notable books include False Alarm and How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place. Thank you to our sponsors - Relief Factor Ladder For advertising inquires please contact: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the JBP Podcast season 4 episode 18 with Bjorn Lomburg.
0:06.6	This episode was recorded on January 21, 2021.
0:10.7	Dr Bjorn Lomburg is a Danish author and president of the Think Tank Copenhagen Consensus Center.
0:17.9	Bjorn champions a path to solving world problems through use of economic research to determine
0:22.8	where to spend our resources based on the return on investment and severity of the impending
0:28.2	issue.
0:29.2	Dr Lomburg's more notable books include False Alarm and How to Spend 75 billion dollars
0:35.2	to make the world a better place.
0:38.3	Dad and Bjorn discussed a variety of topics in the realm of climate change and worldwide
0:42.2	problems.
0:43.2	They examined the claims made in Bjorn's latest book False Alarm.
0:46.8	Throughout the episode, they touched on sustainable development goals, prioritizing world issues,
0:51.3	achieving the highest return on investment.
0:53.6	The apocalypse lens we apply to many global issues, making the poor richer, innovation,
0:58.6	adaptation, selling and market solutions and much more.
1:02.9	I wanted to mention a few updates.
1:04.6	The major one, we will now be releasing three episodes per week, two to three anyway,
1:10.8	probably three.
1:12.0	One Q&A and two interview podcasts starting this week Thursday and Saturday.
1:18.4	So that's big news.
1:19.6	The other news, if you haven't checked out Dad's personality course, it's available at his
1:24.8	website, www.jornbepeterson.com.
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