Bjørn Lomborg

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Do you really put the blame fundamentally on the journalists?

I put it on the media setup.

Look, media is simply trying to get clicks or sell newspapers.

And if you were just going to say, this is not a big issue, it just doesn't sell anything.

But I think you're probably much better able to address this.

And then, of course, it's not Pakistan's fault either, right?

I mean, it also actually, almost all leaders now say it's because of climate, because then it's not, you know, we didn't do anything wrong.

In Germany, for instance, when we had that flood last year, it's not impossible that climate had a part in that.

But it's very, very clear that the main reason why so many people died in Germany and Belgium was because the alarm systems didn't work.

And this was plainly the local leaders in Germany.

Now, if I'm stuck here and basically have caused the death of 200 people, would I rather say, yeah, that's on me, or would I climb it?

So we're basically deciding to make policies that will have fairly little impact, even in 50 or 100 years, that literally cost trillions of dollars.

So I'll give you two examples.

So the European Union is trying to go to net zero.

So our attempt to go halfway there by 2030 will cost about a trillion dollars a year.

And yet the net impact will be almost unmeasurable by the end of the century.

Why is that?

That's because the EU and the rich countries is a fairly small part of the emissions that are going to come out in the 21st century.

Now, we used to be a big part of it.

That's mainly because nobody else, you know, it was just the US and Europe and a few others that put out CO2 in the 20th century.

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