Bjørn Lomborg

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin · 18 Nov 2022 podcast

They put like 50,000 jacks underneath a building, and they would just raise the building.

And then they'd go on to the next building.

They raised all of Chicago one or two feet.

This is almost 200 years ago.

Of course we will be able to deal with these things.

I'm not saying it'll be fun or that it'll be cheap.

Of course we would rather not have to deal with this.

But we're a very inventive species, and so it's very unlikely that we'll not be able to deal with these things.

I think there's a different kind of thing that happened in the COVID.

So politicians, a lot of politicians, I think made certainly suboptimal decisions, but I also find the fact that we actually managed to get a vaccine.

in a year.

Uh, we should not be, uh, you know, sort of unaware of the fact that yes, we did a lot of stupid stuff and a lot of people were really, really annoyed, but fundamentally we fixed this.

Uh, we could have done it better and pretty.

I mean, I, I, uh, uh, rode through, uh, the COVID pandemic in the Southern Sweden.

Uh, so, uh, and, uh, you know,

Yes, we can have that whole conversation.

It was certainly much easier to live there than than many other places.

But the fundamental point was we actually fixed it.

So, yes, we'll do and we'll do that with climate.

We'll make a lot of bad decisions and we'll waste a lot of money like we do with all other problems.

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