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Bjørn Lomborg

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

And so basically you would see your infrastructure, all your stuff, very quickly being very, very challenged.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

And you basically have to put up huge seawalls or migrate out of that area.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

Very quickly, yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

Well, very quickly as in 50 years or something.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

Of course we are.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

And look, again, the point here is then there's a lot of other arguments.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

And I should just put the disclaimer, this is not what I think is correct.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

But you're asking me what's the worst case outcome that you have –

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

So most of global warming is really about that we're used to one way of doing things.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

So we live in Jakarta because it's right next to the sea.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

We're used to the sea being at this level.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

We grow our crops because we're used to – you grow corn here, you grow wheat here because we're used to that's where the precipitation and the temperature is the right for this kind of crop.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

If this changes, and this is the same thing with houses, if it gets colder, if it gets warmer, it's suddenly uncomfortable because you've built your house wrong.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

So our infrastructure will be wrong if the world changes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

And that's what climate change does.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

Yes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

And so this is a problem in most of these senses.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

But if you then sort of take it to the extreme and say, well, imagine that you're going to get a huge sea level rise.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

Imagine that you're going to get a very different sort of precipitation.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

For instance, the monsoon in the Indian subcontinent changes dramatically.