Bjorn Lomborg
speaker
17 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2018
last heard Aug 2018
Bjorn Lomborg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Please stop the misleading fire stories.
The US is smouldering less, not more.
2018 will likely see burnt area one-sixth of the US record.
Please stop the misleading fire stories.
The EU is smouldering less, not more.
Today is about half of the burnt area in the 1980s.
I'm somewhat controversial because I do accept that global warming is a real problem and something that we need to fix.
But I also insist that we need to focus on where can you do that most effectively.
There's something weird going on here, because what you're essentially saying is that you are responsible for all the offspring that will come down your descendant line.
And that adds up to an enormous amount of CO2.
There's two problems with that.
First of all, it seems reasonable to say that you're responsible for your child, but your child's decision on whether to have children or not should be that child's decision, not yours, and that child's moral obligation.
The second part, of course, is it seems very unlikely that children far into the next century will still be emitting, say, 15 tons per year as a rich American is doing right now.
Much more likely, we will have developed technology that will allow us to reduce our emissions dramatically, maybe even very close to zero.
Individual action on climate change rarely will lead to very much impact because it is a small impact.
What really is necessary if you're going to fix climate change is about getting technological change.
It is about getting our systems to be much more effective.
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