Bjørn Lomborg

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

And remember, if the US went carbon neutral today,

By the end of the century, that would reduce temperatures by about 0.3 degree Fahrenheit.

So you would just be able to measure it.

It probably wouldn't in real life, but you'd just be able to measure it.

Again, this is not saying that there's not some good coming out of it, but you're basically spending an enormous amount of money on fairly small benefits.

So that's my main point.

So the big cost is that you have slightly lower productivity gains.

So basically, again, and this is sort of the opposite of what we just talked about by climate change.

We're going to get richer and richer in the world.

This is all models, also the UN.

This is really the only way that you can get big climate changes because everybody gets a lot richer.

So also the developing world gets a lot richer.

So we're likely to get richer.

But one of the things that drive our wealth production is the fact that we have ample and cheap and available energy.

If you make that slightly harder, which is what you do with climate legislation, because you're basically telling people you have to use a source of energy that you would rather not have used because if people wanted to do it, we'd already have solved the problem.

So you're basically telling me you've got to use this wind turbine instead of this natural gas plant or that kind of thing.

It's not that you suddenly become poor or anything.

It simply makes production slightly harder.

What do you do when the wind is not blowing kind of thing?

And of course, we have lots of ways to somewhat mitigate that, but it's a little more costly, a little more complicated, a little less convenient.

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