Bjørn Lomborg
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And so basically you would see your infrastructure, all your stuff, very quickly being very, very challenged.
And you basically have to put up huge seawalls or migrate out of that area.
Very quickly, yeah.
Well, very quickly as in 50 years or something.
Of course we are.
And look, again, the point here is then there's a lot of other arguments.
And I should just put the disclaimer, this is not what I think is correct.
But you're asking me what's the worst case outcome that you have –
So most of global warming is really about that we're used to one way of doing things.
So we live in Jakarta because it's right next to the sea.
We're used to the sea being at this level.
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.
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.
So our infrastructure will be wrong if the world changes.
And that's what climate change does.
Yes.
And so this is a problem in most of these senses.
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.
Imagine that you're going to get a very different sort of precipitation.
For instance, the monsoon in the Indian subcontinent changes dramatically.