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Weathering the Storms: Bjorn Lomborg on Climate Change, Global Priorities | GoodFellows: John Cochrane, Niall Ferguson, H. R. McMaster | Hoover Institution

GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

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Africa's Economic Growth Will Not Be Propelled by Bill Gates or USAID

Bjorn: I think the kind of problems that the UK economies are going through at the moment are really rather trivial compared with the problems we've been discussing in the world's poorest countries. He says there is a tremendous problem when it comes to just getting electricity to many African communities. Bjorn: Ultimately, the reason that you can't build a sustainable and effective infrastructure in Africa has a lot to do with dysfunctional governance. But this brings us back to a very central point that we began with. We use about 80% of our energy comes from fossil fuel. Most of the world still relies on fossil fuels.

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