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Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

You need redundancy or efficiency.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

or a variety of options, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

Which is not what corporate companies think about, which is not what, if you're only focused on a bottom line, short-term timeline, those disruptions are not what you're thinking about.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

You're still thinking about, can we get that widget here just in time for this thing to happen?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

And then on we go.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

So it's kind of, I love the noosphere, this noosphere idea.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

The connectedness is fantastic.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

Oh, another thing, like in the early 90s,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

When I wrote my first book on global warming, it was for an exhibition at the Museum of Natural History.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

The Environmental Defense Fund was involved.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

They were like a partner, one of these longstanding environmental groups.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

And they were very old-fashioned.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

It was mostly lawyers, really, just using the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act to litigate against pollution.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

And now, EDF is vastly bigger.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

And they're actually, this coming year, they're launching a satellite, an environmental group

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

is launching MethaneSat, and it's providing a view, an independent view of where there's this gas.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

It's the same thing, natural gas is basically methane.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

So if you have a leak, whether it's in Siberia or in Oklahoma, you can cross-reference, you can ground, you can identify the hotspot, you can,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

know where the problem is to fix in so many ways.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

And that's just one example.