#617 - Dr Bjorn Lomborg - Climate Alarmists Are Getting It All Wrong
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Dr Bjorn Lomborg is an environmental economist, Copenhagen Consensus Center president, public speaker and an author.
Over the past two decades, the media has made some alarming predictions about the imminent end of the world due to global warming. But is this the priority that global efforts should be focussed on fixing? Does it have real world benefits, or are there better ways to improve human lives?
Expect to learn why Greta Thunberg had to delete a tweet from half a decade ago, the reason why climate change is a favourite fear tactic in the media, the most cost-effective ways to make the world a better place, why sending kids to school doesn't necessarily mean they are educated, why cold weather is much more deadly than heat, just how inefficient it is to save lives through carbon reduction, how dangerous NetZero is as a policy and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening people? Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Bjorn Lombog, |
| 0:04.3 | he's an environmental economist, Copenhagen consensus center president, public speaker, |
| 0:09.3 | and an author. Over the past two decades, the media has made some alarming predictions |
| 0:14.6 | about the imminent end of the world due to global warming, but is this the priority that global |
| 0:19.5 | efforts should be focused on fixing? Does it have real world benefits, or are there better ways |
| 0:24.8 | to improve human lives? Expect to learn why Greta Thumburg had to delete a tweet from half a |
| 0:29.7 | decade ago. The reason why climate change is a favorite fear tactic in the media, the most |
| 0:34.4 | cost effective ways to make the world a better place. Why sending kids to school doesn't |
| 0:38.8 | necessarily mean they are educated. Why cold weather is much more deadly than heat, just how |
| 0:43.7 | inefficient it is to save lives through carbon reduction. How dangerous net zero is as a policy. |
| 0:49.3 | And much more. Bjorn is very interesting, fascinating guy, incredibly well researched, |
| 0:56.5 | super empathetic, very reasonable. I loved this episode, it's everything that I enjoyed learning |
| 1:02.3 | about, uh, upturning existing ideas and, and presumptions around what we should be focused on, |
| 1:08.8 | genuine, practical, easily applied solutions that can give us something better, and a ton of stats |
| 1:14.4 | and data and great stories to back it up. You're going to love this one. Don't forget that you |
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