Bjorn Lomborg on the Costs and Benefits of Attacking Climate Change

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🗓️ 10 June 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Bjorn Lomborg, President of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, talks about the costs and benefits of attacking climate change with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Lomborg argues that we should always be aware of tradeoffs and effectiveness when assessing policies to reduce global warming. He advocates for realistic solutions that consider the potential to improve human life in other ways. He is skeptical of the potential to move away from fossil fuels and argues that geo-engineering and adaptation may be the most effective ways to cope with climate change.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:12.6	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:17.6	links and other information related to today's conversation.
0:20.5	We'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done going
0:24.8	back to 2006.
0:27.0	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:29.0	We'd love to hear from you.
0:31.0	Today is April 16th, 2019, and my guest is academic and author Bjorn Lomborg.
0:40.0	His books include The Skeptical and our Mentalist and Cool It.
0:43.0	He's the president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, our topic for today are the costs
0:48.2	and benefits of attacking climate change.
0:50.7	Bjorn, welcome to Econ Talk.
0:52.3	Russ, it's great to be here.
0:54.5	Let's start with your assessment of the risks from global warming.
0:58.2	How serious a problem do you think it is?
1:01.4	So I think the first thing to really realize is that I'm not talking about this as me.
1:07.6	I'm simply trying to take some of the best people who've been working on this typically
1:11.3	with the UN Climate Panel.
1:13.0	So when you're asking me what is my assessment, I'm simply answering what is it that the
1:17.4	UN Climate Panel is telling us?
1:19.6	Because I'm just working in economics.
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