Bjorn Lomborg
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 10 Feb
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So clearly, a lot of people got rich.
And when that happens, there's also a lot of other interests.
I think what's happened with climate is it was just uniquely well-designed to work in this click economy.
Suddenly, you had something
Well, you could blame anything on climate, and it literally has been blamed on pretty much everything.
So, again, climate change is a real problem, but it just took a life of its own, as you just described, and ended up making everyone telling you everything.
everything you see is because of climate change.
So, you know, the latest hurricane, climate change, any sort of flooding, climate change, and so on.
And look, there are some parts of this that has some truth to it.
There's a kernel of truth here, but it's just vastly exaggerated.
And of course what's happened is we've also made most young people miserable because they think there's no future, which is absolutely untrue.
And I think that's one of the things where Gates coming and saying, look, this is not gonna be the end of the world, it's a problem.
That is an incredibly useful way to say, look, there are many problems in the 21st century.
Climate is one of them.
Let's fix them, but let's fix them smartly.
And again, keep asking, if you're going to do a policy, how much is this going to improve human welfare?
And then you get back to saying, you know, when you give a subsidy to an electric car or a solar panel, how much does that improve human welfare?
And the simple answer is nothing right now.
In 100 years, a little bit.
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