Climate Alarmists Are Getting This All Wrong - Dr Bjorn Lomborg | Modern Wisdom 617

Dr Bjorn Lomborg is an environmental economist, Copenhagen Consensus Center president, public speaker and an author.

Over the past two decades, the media has made some alarming predictions about the imminent end of the world due to global warming. But is this the priority that global efforts should be focussed on fixing? Does it have real world benefits, or are there better ways to improve human lives?

Expect to learn why Greta Thunberg had to delete a tweet from half a decade ago, the reason why climate change is a favourite fear tactic in the media, the most cost-effective ways to make the world a better place, why sending kids to school doesn't necessarily mean they are educated, why cold weather is much more deadly than heat, just how inefficient it is to save lives through carbon reduction, how dangerous NetZero is as a policy and much more...

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00:00 Intro
00:37 Greta Thunberg’s Deleted Predictions
06:14 Why Climate Change is NOT an Existential Risk
10:39 Bjorn’s Cost-Effective Ways to Improve the World
19:49 Is Bjorn’s Work Close to Effective Altruism?
24:36 The Longest Levers for a Better Future
30:00 Why Climate Change Policy is Counterproductive
37:36 Which is Worse: Cold or Heat?
43:14 The Financial Mess of the Green Movement
50:29 Are Climate Alarmists Really Helping the Polar Bears?
1:00:12 Bjorn’s Strategy to Engage Sceptics

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