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The Brendan O'Neill Show

30: Innovation, freedom and failing better, with Matt Ridley

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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News, Society & Culture, Government, Politics

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Matt Ridley, author of How Innovation Works, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss the past, present and future of innovation -- from transport to nuclear power to vaccines.
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Right on with a show.

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We went into this pandemic,

1:38.0

hysterically terrified of climate change. The World Health Organization put out a

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statement in 2015 that the greatest threat to human health, health, nothing else, health.

1:53.6

In the 21st century is climate change.

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Now the World Health Organization's job is to keep us safe from pandemics.

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This suggests to me that in 2015 the organization was not doing its day

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job and we are now seeing the consequences thereof.

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Hello and welcome to the Brendan O'Neill show with me Brendan O'Neill.

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