Bjørn Lomborg

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

And all these students have lots of other issues.

They need to do farm work.

They're constantly considering, should I just go out and start working instead?

There's constant disruption.

There's a lot of teachers that don't show up in India.

You have this absurd situation where all the teachers are basically –

paid and hired for eternity for the rest of their lives.

And so not surprisingly, a lot of them decide not to show up.

So now they've hired

assistant teachers that basically have taken over.

So they're paying for, I think it's 7 million teachers that I'm not saying they're not all not working, but a lot of them are not working as much as they should.

And we now hired another 7 million teachers that will eventually stop working as well.

They're working much better right now because they're not on permanent contracts, but eventually they'll get on permanent contracts and then you have the same problem again.

There's lots of these issues.

And, you know, it's just simply about saying we can't fix all problems.

But there are some problems that are incredibly easy to solve.

And there are some that are incredibly hard to solve.

Why don't we start with solving the easy and effective ones?

And this, of course, bears on that whole conversation on climate change.

Because in some ways, you know, that's also Andy's point of saying...

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