Bjørn Lomborg

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

both in you need some directed advertisement, you need to make sure that you actually get some of the food out there, that you help the families, and you also make sure you don't just give it to everyone because then it becomes a lot more expensive.

If you do that right, it costs about $100 per kid.

Per kid?

For two years.

So it's for their first two years of life.

And if you do that,

you then get a benefit in that they become smarter and go longer to school and they actually learn more and become more productive of $4,500.

Remember, this is far into the future.

So this is discounted.

The benefit is actually much higher.

And this is one of the things that we also have a conversation about in climate change, because when you talk about climate change, cost and benefits, all the costs are now and all the benefits are in the future, but it's just like that in education.

You know, all the costs are now,

All the benefits are far into the future.

And if you try to do that right, and that's a whole other conversation we could have, then it turns out that for every dollar spent, you do $45 worth of good.

Again, remember about a third of all kids that go to school right now just don't learn pretty much anything.

And if we could make them more productive in the school system, we have another proposal on how to do that in the school system.

But by just simply making sure that they're smarter when they get into school, we've been focusing so much on making the education system better, which is really hard.

But it's actually really easy to make the kids smarter.

Yes, we're talking about globally.

So about a third of the teachers in developing countries have a hard time passing the tests of the things they have to teach their students.

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