Bjorn Lomborg
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458 appearances
2 recordings
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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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And what they find is climate is going to be equivalent by the end of the century of
2% to 3% cost.
So that's not nothing.
That's 2% to 3%.
That's a lot of trillion dollars.
But in 2100, the UN, yes, the UN estimate the average person on the planet will be 450% as rich as he or she is today.
Right.
Will be much, much better off.
So because of climate change, it's going to feel like we will only be 435% as well off as we are today.
Yeah, yeah.
I would rather have us be 450% better off, but it's not the end of the world.
It's a much better world.
It's a world where many fewer kids are going to die from easily curable infectious diseases, probably very, very close to zero, that we will have kids better fed.
We'll have kids having a good education.
They will live much longer lives.
They will have much better opportunity.
They'll be able to go many more places.
This is both true in the rich world, you know,
The average American will be two or maybe three times richer.
But the average African will be, say, 10 or maybe even 30 times richer.
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