Bjorn Lomborg
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 10 Feb
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uses as much electricity for all their things and for all of their industries as the average Californian does to heat his or her pool.
So you get a sense of proportion here.
California is smaller than Tanzania in terms of population, but you use more energy to heat your pools, or for that matter, to run your PlayStations, than the whole nation of Tanzania does.
It gives you a sense of, no, they're not going to say, sure, we'll just stay poor and fix climate change for you.
First of all, it's not going to fix climate change.
Second of all, of course, they're not going to stay poor.
And so we are never going to get these countries on board unless we find a solution that's actually going to fix us.
That is something that delivers a lot of energy, mostly probably electricity, really cheaply and reliably and trustworthy.
And we're not there yet, right?
I mean, right now we talk a lot about solar and wind, and sure, it's great when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing, but otherwise it sucks because
You have no power.
And unless you have an enormous amount of batteries, which no one can afford, you're not going to solve it with solar and wind.
You're just going to make it feel like, oh, we're cosplaying a little bit and saying, sure, we can do it in the rich.
Well, yeah, but that's because you have a lot of backup power that you can turn on when the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing.
Yeah, I would love to be able to reveal the big truth here on your show, but unfortunately that's not the case.
As you well know, nuclear is really the only thing that we know right now to produce a lot of power reliably.
without CO2 emissions.
So that's the only technology we have right now.
The problem, of course, as you also point out, is that in the US and most other rich nations, it's incredibly costly.
So you just, you know, in the 2000s, you've
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