5 Easy Ways to Save the World - Bjørn Lomborg

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Dr Bjørn Lomborg is a researcher, writer and the founder of the think tank, Copenhagen Consensus. He has collaborated with hundreds of the world’s top economists and seven Nobel Laureates to find and promote the most effective solutions to the world’s greatest challenges, from disease and hunger to climate and education. His latest book, ‘Best Things First’ posits 12 of these solutions and details how they can be applied in a relatively inexpensive manner.
Check out Bjørn’s book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1940003482/

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Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

00:00 Intro
01:08 Best Things First
03:18 Education in Low Income Countries
07:17 Why Hasn't Education Already Been Fixed?
10:23 Sustainable Development Goals
14:20 Maternal & Newborn Health
19:37 The Desire For Complex Solutions
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22:41 Corruption in the Developing World
28:21 Trade-off Denialism
30:15 The Malaria Outbreak
35:04 Curing Tuberculosis in Developing Areas
40:27 Immunisation & Vaccines
44:50 The Growing Anti-Vax Movement
47:45 Overcoming Infrastructure Issues in Developing Areas
53:30 How To Fix Problems Effectively
56:29 Should We Bring More People to the West?
1:00:10 The Brain Drain Argument
1:02:16 What Individuals Can Do to Help the Developing World
1:05:24 What’s the One Thing We’re Not Talking About?

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0:31.8	Here are 12 things you can focus on to actually make a big impact.
0:35.6	So let's talk about that.
0:36.6	The UN is actually trying to save the world for about 15 trillion dollars.
0:41.2	So yeah, it's totally absurdly large amount.
0:44.6	You can do it for about two 1000s of a bit of what the UN would actually like to spend.
0:50.6	But what we shouldn't be doing is to say my obsession with obesity or with climate change
0:57.6	or with the plastic straws or with all these other things, take precedence over the fact
1:01.6	that for most people in this world, it's really about the fact that their kids are dying
1:06.6	from easily curable infectious diseases, get bad education, are losing out of product
1:10.6	of productivity because of corruption, all these other issues that we could fix really cheaply.
1:15.6	So get your priorities right when you care about the world.
1:19.6	And for 35 billion dollars, we can make the change.
1:31.6	Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Francis Foster.
1:35.6	I'm Constantine Kissen.
1:36.6	And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people.
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