Bjørn Lomborg

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So there are literally lots and lots of amazing things you can do out there.

There's a lot of low-hanging fruit.

And there's a lot of not terribly great things that you can do.

And unfortunately, one of the things that I try to sort of battle is that we get a lot of things right.

That's why the world is a lot better than what it used to be.

But the things that are sort of left behind,

left over are often the boring things that happen to be incredibly effective and the exciting things that are often not that terribly effective.

And so I think one way to look at this is basically to have people do cost benefit across a wide range of areas.

And we try to get a lot of different economists to do this, and they come up with different numbers and different models and different results.

But if you sort of consistently get that some things give you, you know, in tens or maybe even hundreds of dollars back per dollar.

Remember, this is not actually you getting rich.

It's the world getting rich.

It's that the world gets better worth $100 for every dollar you spend.

And over here, you can spend a dollar and do somewhere between 30 cents and maybe a couple of dollars.

You should probably be focused on the other opportunity first.

And that's really the point that I try to make with climate.

There are some smart things we can do and I hope we get to talk about them in climate.

But there's also a lot of sort of the standard approaches to fixing climate.

turns out to be very likely below $1, back in dollar, and certainly not terribly high.

You know, even if you're very optimistic, it'll be like two or three, whereas many other things are just fantastically better investment.

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