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Bjørn Lomborg

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

And it's probably not going to do very much.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

And even if you succeed it, it would only help future victims of future hurricane events in Florida a tiny, tiny bit at best.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

So instead, let's try to focus on not getting people to build right on the waterfront where you're incredibly vulnerable and where you're

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

very likely to get hit where we subsidize people with federal insurance again, which is actually losing money.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

So we're much more about saying it's not a science question.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

I just take the science for granted.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

Yes, there is a problem with climate change, but it's much more about saying, how can we make smart decisions?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

So everyone will have to say, of course there must be blind spots.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

But I don't know what they are.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

Yeah, I'm sure Andy would probably be better at telling me what they are.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

So we try to incorporate all of it, but obviously we're not successful.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

You can't incorporate everything, for instance, in a cost-benefit analysis.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

But the point is, in some way,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

I would worry a lot about this if we were, you know, sort of close to perfection human race.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

We're doing almost everything right, but we're not quite right.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

Then we need to get the last digits right.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

But I think it's much more of the, you know, and the point that I tried to make before.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

That we're all focused on going to an electric car or something else rather than fracking.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

We're all focused on cutting carbon emissions instead of reducing vulnerability.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

So we're similarly getting orders of magnitude wrong.