Climate Fatalism: How Green New Deal Policies Hurt the Planet & the Poor, with Dr. Bjorn Lomborg

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Dan Crenshaw

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🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Dr. Bjorn Lomborg joins us to continue the conversation on rational environmentalism which we left off with Michael Shellenberger. What are the second order effects of climate change policies, like the ones we find in the Green New Deal, on poor communities and developing countries? How do these policies - counterintuitively - actually hurt the environment more than doing nothing? And what are the 21st century solutions humanity should pursue to propel everybody into safer, cleaner societies?

Dr. Bjorn Lomborg is president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School. The Copenhagen Consensus Center is a think-tank that researches the smartest ways to do good. For this work, Lomborg was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world. His most recent book is "False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet." Follow Dr. Lomborg on Twitter at @BjornLomborg.

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0:00.0	We hold these truths to be self-evident.
0:02.0	But all men are created.
0:04.0	Because I remember Congress, I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office.
0:07.2	Experts on what they're talking about.
0:08.8	This is the podcast for insights into the issues.
0:11.5	China, bio-terrorism, Medicare for all, in-depth discussions.
0:15.9	Breaking it down into simple terms.
0:17.8	We hold these truths with Dan Crenshaw.
0:24.1	Hey everybody, welcome back.
0:25.2	I'm going to talk to you today about one of my favorite topics, which is,
0:29.2	I think, rational environmentalism.
0:32.5	Republicans really need to, I think, come to the table on this and lean in because our ideas are
0:39.6	correct. And the conversation about climate change isn't really a debate over whether it's happening
0:45.2	or not. It's a debate about what you actually do about it.
0:48.7	And agreeing on the premise of how bad it might be with the cost are actually regarding climate
0:55.2	change. And then what the solutions might be that actually make the most sense.
1:00.9	We've already had some great guests on this topic.
1:02.8	But today I'm really excited.
1:04.6	Coming from Denmark or Sweden, Dr. Jordan Lombork.
1:09.3	Thank you so much for being on the show.
1:10.5	Hey Dan, it's great to be here.
1:13.1	So I'll read your biography really quick for everybody.
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