Bjorn Lomborg
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458 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
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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Which, of course, is the height of hypocrisy, right?
We're basically saying, well, but, you know, we're so rich and we need to lifestyle.
We can't live without this.
But you guys should just do with solar and wind.
Which is one of the reasons why Africa has so little energy and electricity, because we've kept telling them, you should not do the same thing as what we've done.
You shouldn't do what China has done.
You shouldn't get rich.
And so we've, in some ways, kept them at this low level where for at least 10 years, not
lent them money to build coal-fired power plants or gas power plants.
That's just terrible and, in my view, immoral.
We've not allowed them to do fracking so that they can get their own gas so they don't have all those people dying from indoor air pollution, as we talked about earlier.
These are very basic things that people should just be allowed to.
Of course, they should be allowed to live just as well as you and I.
But the other thing is also we have focused on a lot of feel good things in Africa and elsewhere.
We've been focused on spending a lot of money that haven't done very much good.
But the funny thing is we do know what works.
So, you know, for instance,
Education is incredibly crucial to get kids to learn to read and write and do basic arithmetic.
Unfortunately, there's about a third of a billion kids in school right now, which the UN estimate will probably never really learn to be literate.
I mean, they'll technically be literate, but they won't actually be able to use it.
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