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#617 - Dr Bjorn Lomborg - Climate Alarmists Are Getting It All Wrong

Modern Wisdom

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The Importance of Accounting for Human Irrationality

In a perfect, hemetically sealed sandbox, you might be able to say we've got 14.5 trillion future human lives that will spread across the galaxy if we make these steps and get us there. But you need to account for human irrationality. You need to go, okay, I understand that that would be optimal. But I need to factor in the fact that all of the people around us are going to spend most of their money on themselves. They're not going to leave everything to future generations. So it's slightly more boring talking about how do we make better education in developing countries for six graders. This is what's actually going to fix a lot of the problems

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