Bjørn Lomborg

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin · 18 Nov 2022 podcast

Just very briefly, we do this for a lot of countries, so we did it for Haiti, for instance, funded by the Canadian Development Ministry, because they're basically saying, we spent a billion dollars in Haiti since the earthquake, and we really can't tell the difference.

So they wanted to find, I mean, they actually say that, right?

And so they said, we want to find out what are the really smart things you can do in Haiti.

And so we, together with lots of people in Haiti and all the business community and the political community and the religious community and everything,

labor community and everybody else, what are the smart things to do?

And then we had economists evaluate it.

And there were a lot of these things that everybody wanted that were not all that smart.

There's actually a lot of smart things.

And yes, the politicians didn't pick most of them.

So our sense is we try to give people, you know, you're thinking about these 70 things.

You should actually just think about these 20 things, and then we consider ourselves incredibly lucky if they actually do one of them.

All right.

So there's some incredibly good and very, very well-documented things that you could spend money on.

So we have two big infectious diseases that almost nobody think about because we only think about COVID.

But tuberculosis used to be the world's biggest infectious disease killer.

It still kills about one and a half million people every year.

The reason why we don't

you know, really worry about it is because we fixed it a hundred years ago.

We know how to fix it.

It's just, you know, it's just basically getting medication to people.

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