Bjørn Lomborg

Today, for the first time in 2015, it was down below 10%.

And again, these are kind of boring statistics, but they're also astounding.

Testaments of how well humanity is done.

So just on the point of, we've kind of just been focused on making our own world better.

And in many ways, so we've hunted a lot of big animals, either to extinction or down to much, much smaller populations, as much smaller populations of fish in the ocean.

So there's a lot of things that sort of bear the brunt of our success.

It's not because we're evil in that sense.

It's just because we didn't care all that much about them.

I think it is important as one funnel of that.

I'm not going to make a big deal out of it.

But the fact that we're putting out more CO2 in the atmosphere, because CO2, as you also mentioned before, it's actually plant food.

If you're a greenhouse grower, you know if you put in CO2 in your greenhouse, you actually get bigger and plumper tomatoes.

Right.

And that's essentially what we're doing in the world.

This has overall bad consequences, and that's why we should be doing something about it.

But one of the good side effects is actually that the world is getting greener.

So we get much more green stuff.

Now, I don't know, and this is where I sort of show my economist roots, because if you just measure all living stuff,

in uh in tons uh so in weight there's actually more living stuff than there were a hundred years ago because elephants and uh all these other you know big fish and stuff are actually really really small fraction of the world uh so yeah the fact that we have yes so we have an enormous amount of life stuff but that doesn't even measure it it's mostly just wood

You know, wooden green stuff that has dramatically increased in the world.