Bjørn Lomborg
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first heard Nov 2022
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Lex Fridman Podcast · #339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin · 18 Nov 2022
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It's also about getting them to take it while, when they're sort of been cured because you need to take it for four to six months and that's actually hard to do.
So you also need to incentivize that in some kind of way.
It turns out it's incredibly cheap to basically save almost all of the 1.5 million people.
These are people that die in the prime of their lives.
They're typically parents, so it would also have a lot of knock-on effects.
And basically, we find for a couple billion dollars, you could save the vast number of these.
Not all of them, but you could save the vast number of them.
It would also improve outcomes in all kinds of other ways.
Likewise with malaria.
It has somewhat better PR.
By far the biggest infectious disease that got good PR, if you will, was HIV.
And I'm not trying to compare it and say, oh, it's worse or better to have HIV than tuberculosis or anything.
But I'm simply saying we are underfunding because it doesn't really get the public attention.
attention.
We just, you know, we don't really care.
So every dollar you spend on TB will probably do about $43 worth of good.
So it'll do an amazing amount of good, basically because it'll save lives, it'll make sure parents stay with their kids and be more productive in their communities, and it'll have a lot of knock-on effects.
And it's incredibly cheap to do.
Same thing with malaria.
It's mostly mosquito nets.
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