Dr. Bjørn Lomborg is president of the Copenhagen Consensus, the best-selling author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and Best Things First, and a visiting fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. He’s been named one of the top 100 public intellectuals by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines and was listed among TIME’s 100 most influential people in the world.
- Chapters -
(00:00:00) In this episode…
(00:00:19) Intro
(00:03:34) Chapter 1: Go Check the Data
(00:16:36) Chapter 2: The UN Climate Panel View
(00:20:46) Chapter 3: Fighting the Apocalypse
(00:39:30) Chapter 4: Economic Development and Progress
(00:46:37) Chapter 5: Best Things First
(01:01:25) Chapter 6: The Value of Life
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