Bjørn Lomborg

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

This seems to be the best outcome.

We're not sure, but this seems to be the outcome.

And it's important to remember, stronger is worse than fewer is better.

So overall, climate will make the world a little bit worse.

So that's the sort of bottom line.

But, and that's the real issue here, all the other things, the fact that people are much more vulnerable, is just vastly outweigh this.

Which is why, if you look at the impact

of hurricanes and impact of pretty much everything is typically going down.

If you look, for instance, in percent of GDP, you have to look at percent of GDP because if you have twice as many houses, obviously, you know, the same kind of impact will have twice the impact or if they're worth twice as much.

If you do that in percent of GDP, and even the UN says that's how you should measure it, it's going down.

Why is that?

It's because we're becoming more resilient.

Just simply, if you look at what happens when hurricanes come in, we have much better prediction in the long run.

That means you now know two or three days out that there's a big hurricane that's likely to come here.

What does that mean?

All the...

Things that can be moved.

So, you know, typically all buses, all trucks, everything that's not bolted down will leave this area.

And so you will get less damage from that.

You will have more people knowing, oh, this is going to be a big one.

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