Bjørn Lomborg

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

multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, which is a real scourge on the earth.

So, you know, what if you develop that?

So the truth is, not only can your life be much better when you sort of ditch that doomerism, but it also becomes much more possible for you to be a positive part of making sure that you do that progress.

Why has the world improved so much?

Because our parents and great-grandparents, they made all this work.

This was all their innovations and a lot of hard work.

And I'm incredibly grateful that they've done it.

But now it's kind of time to pay back.

So you've got to do this for our grandkids.

You've got to make those innovations, make those policy opportunities that will make the world an even better place.

I actually had a big conversation about that in my university because I think, and this is perhaps especially true for social sciences, but I think it's probably true for everyone.

Just simply communicating what it is you've done in research makes it possible for you to sort of get an outsider's perspective and see, did I just go into an incredibly deep hole that just three other people really care about in the world?

Or is this actually something that matters to the world?

And being able to explain what it is that you've done to everyone else makes, you know, my sort of sense is if you can't say it in a couple of minutes, it's probably, it's not necessarily true, but it's probably because it wasn't all that important.

You waited till the last moment to ask us that question.

Well, so, I mean, again, I'm just going to take a stab in this because I think in some ways it's the same thing that you were talking about before.

It's not about getting everybody sort of in the same track and all agree on something, but it's about getting a lot of people with very different goals and targets and ways of thinking about the world to go in the same direction.

So for me...

the goal of life, certainly my goal, but I think for most people, is to make the world a better place.

It sounds incredibly pedestrian because it's become so overused, but that really and literally is the point.

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