A Green New Deal Warning: Bjorn Lomborg, Alex Epstein, Benji Backer | ROUNDTABLE

The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Bjorn Lomborg, Alex Epstein, and Benji Backer about the Green New Deal. They discuss why it is poorly designed environmental policy and won’t deliver on the promise of green jobs. The green economy is another utopia being pushed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Senator Ed Markey, and progressive Democrats that won’t solve climate change. Instead, our guests argue that various plans to replace fossil fuels with inefficient and expensive renewable energy could actually make life worse for the poorest among us. They will also discuss how unrelated issues like racial justice have been packaged into climate policy and the importance of separating politics from science. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, we are live on the YouTube.
0:09.8	I'm Dave Rubin and we've got another Friday panel extravaganza for you.
0:13.8	Today we're going to be talking about how to fix the environment without anointing AOC
0:18.8	queen of the universe.
0:20.1	I think there's a chance.
0:21.7	And joining me are founder of the Center for Industrial Progress, Alex Epstein, author
0:27.2	and president of the Copenhagen consensus Bjorn Lomburg and president of the American
0:32.5	Conservation Coalition, not conservative coalition, Benji Backer.
0:36.6	Guys, welcome to the Rubin Report.
0:38.2	All right, thanks for having us.
0:40.4	I am glad to be doing this because Earth Day was this week and it sort of got kind of
0:46.8	shelved a little bit because there's just such chaos happening in the world.
0:51.8	But before we get into sort of the big issues, I thought I could just ask each one of you
0:55.4	briefly to kind of describe how and why you got into the environmental conversation
1:00.9	and do what you do for a living because I feel like everybody is always sort of imputing
1:04.9	motives when it comes to this.
1:07.1	So Alex, I know you the longest, I'll start with you.
1:09.6	All right, yeah, sounds good.
1:11.6	So you can probably see behind or you can see I have my I love fossil fuels t-shirt.
1:15.4	I have moral case for fossil fuels as my book and say my background is actually as a philosopher.
1:20.0	I know interest in energy, knowledge of energy, certainly no payoffs by the fossil
1:25.4	fuel industry or anything like that.
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