Bjørn Lomborg

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

You know, that poster that people, a lot of kids have, you're going to die from old age, but I'm going to die from climate.

No, you're not.

You're going to die from old age and you're going to die much older, very likely.

So the reality is the world has improved dramatically and it's very likely to improve even more.

So the baseline is good.

This is just, you know, the facts.

Then there's still lots and lots of problems.

And what you should do as a young person is stop being paralyzed by fear and then realize what you can do is basically help humanity become even smarter.

There's a lot of different places you can do.

I mean, the obvious thing when you're talking about climate is...

What if you could become the guy that develops fourth generation nuclear?

It's very likely something that neither of us know anything about right now, but develop the energy source that will basically power the rest of humanity.

How cool would that be?

That's one of the many things you could do.

But again, also remember there are lots and lots of other things that need solutions.

So what about you become the guy that makes the, or the girl that makes the

uh, the, uh, social innovation in, in, uh, Tanzania or in Kenya, sorry, in Kenya, or what about if you become the person who finds a way that is a much cheaper, more effective way to tackle tuberculosis right now, it needs four to six months of medication that one of the big problems is once you pop the pills and you're, you're fresh, it's really hard to get people to do it for the other five and a half months.

Right.

And, and, and you need that.

Otherwise you actually have a big risk of, of, of getting tuberculosis.

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