Bjorn Lomborg
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 10 Feb
Bjorn Lomborg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But for a rich country over 50 years, that's very close to nothing.
Yeah.
And again, I'm very proud that these guys are doing it so well.
But it's important to recognize we had sort of figured the basics out already in Babylon some 5,000 years ago.
This is not rocket science.
They're doing it smarter now.
But fundamentally, this is just something that we will fix.
And again, that's one of the reasons why I think a lot of the climate change
conversation is really just about scaring people witless.
It's about making young people think, oh my goodness, there's no future here.
And that's not only terrible because it's untrue, but of course, it's also terrible because a lot of kids then decide, oh, I don't want to have kids.
I couldn't be bothered going to school.
I couldn't be bothered coming up with all the innovations that are going to fix the future and that are also going to make the future much, much better.
It's just depressing.
No, I mean, look, and this is really true.
And I've met a lot of these kids that are very, very worried and they really need to be told, look, this is just not true.
Climate change is a problem, but climate change is going to make the world slightly less productive.
much more amazing by the end of the century.
So just to give you the sort of short version of what climate economics does, it tries to estimate what's the total cost of climate change.
It's the only climate, the only economist to win the Nobel Prize in economics for climate change, William Nordhaus and another guy, Richard Tull, one of the most quoted climate economists.
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