Bjørn Lomborg

Easy, fun, you know, sort of the electric car is a great example of this.

The electric car has somehow become almost the sign that I care and I'm really going to do something about climate.

Of course, electric cars are great and they're probably part of the solution and they will actually cut carbon emissions somewhat.

but they're an incredibly ineffective way of cutting carbon emissions right now.

They're fairly expensive.

You have to subsidize them a lot.

And they still emit quite a bit of CO2, both because the batteries get produced and because they usually run off of power that's not totally clean.

So look, electric cars are great.

I don't own a car, but I've been driving a Tesla.

We're in Texas, it's okay.

Well, I flew in here, so it's not like I'm in any way a virtuous guy on that path.

But look, they're great cars, and eventually electric cars will take over a significant part

of our, uh, driving and that's good because they're more, more effective.

They're more effective.

They're probably also going to be cheaper.

Uh, there's a lot of good opportunities with them, but it's because they've become reified as this thing that you do to fix climate.

And right now they're not really all that great for climate.

They, uh, uh, you need a lot of, uh, uh, uh,

extra material into the batteries, which is very polluting.

And it's also, it emits a lot of CO2.