Bjørn Lomborg
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Lex Fridman Podcast · #339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin · 18 Nov 2022
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But fundamentally, we haven't solved how does the world do this.
And that's why I think we're also left with this sense of not only are we being told this is an unmitigated catastrophe, and that's why this is the only thing we should be focusing on, but also somehow, and we can all fix it.
And I don't think we have any sense of how hard this is actually going to be.
And that's, of course, why I would go back and say, look, the only way you're going to fix this is through innovation.
Because if you have something that's cheaper than fossil fuels, you fixed it.
If you have something that's harder and costlier and more inconvenient, no, you're just not going to make it.
No, it was in 2013, I believe.
And also on the Tacloban, I mean, the hurricane that hit in 2013, there was almost a similar hurricane in the early part of 1900s that hit pretty much the same strength and it eradicated half the city.
It killed half the city.
And so what's happened since then is people just got much, much richer.
From early 1900 to 2013, we've just moved a lot of people out of poverty.
Now, it's a lot bigger.
When we were working with Bangladesh, it's no longer the problem of people dying.
It's the fact that their cattle die.
So they want cattle places where you could herd your cattle.
This is their capital.
And it's not to make fun of it, but it's an amazing progress that you've stopped worrying about your parents dying and you worry about your cows dying.
And this really matters because a lot of kids literally think that the world is going to end pretty soon.
And that obviously makes any other kind of plan meaningless.
So first of all, look, you're not going to die.
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