Bjorn Lomborg
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 10 Feb
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People are just not going to be able to afford that.
Exactly.
And Germany doesn't even run the fashion industry, right?
So, no, I mean, fundamentally, we matter very little.
We used to matter a lot.
But the whole rich world, so the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, all of Europe, Japan, a few other countries, so the OECD,
Over the rest of the century, we'll emit just about 13% of emissions.
So you're absolutely right.
All the other stuff, almost all of it is going to come from, right now, relatively poor countries because they want to stop being poor.
They want to get out of poverty.
That's what China has shown the way.
That's where India is going.
And that's certainly where everybody else is going.
And I think in some ways, we don't understand how much of the world is still incredibly poor.
Remember, about a third of the world's population still cook and keep warm with dirty fuels like dung and cardboard and wood.
And so it's 10 times more
Polluted inside most of these homes than it is outdoor in Beijing or in New Delhi.
They're dreaming of gas-fired stoves, right?
Because that would make their kitchens much, much cleaner.
Another thing, most of sub-Saharan Africa, so the poor part of Africa where there's still about a billion people live, they are so poor and have so little electricity that the average person in Tanzania, for instance,
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