Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge.

I'm Peter Robinson.

This is another special plague time

edition of Uncommon Knowledge which means I'm seated at home. Bjorn Lomborg is

president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, a think tank dedicated to applying economic analysis,

including cost benefit analysis, to the great issues of the day. Bjorn is the author of a number of books,

including his 2001 bestseller,

The Skeptical Environmentalist.

Bjorn Lumborg's newest book, Just Out, False Alarm,

how climate change panic costs us trillions, hurts the poor, and fails to fix the planet.

You are in welcome, and you're in Sweden.

Thank you. I'm in southern Sweden right now.

Yes.

All right. Welcome from Northern California to Southern Sweden.

Bure are in two quotations.

This is you in your new book, False Alarm.

Quote, in almost every way we can measure almost every way we can measure life on earth is better now than at any time in history. We need to take a collective deep breath and understand what climate change is and isn't.

It is not like a huge asteroid hurtling toward earth. It is instead a long-term chronic condition that needs attention and focus, but one that we can live with.

Close quote.

That's the first quotation.

Here's the second.

Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg,

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