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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There a New Normal for Global Warming?

We get 80% of our energy from fossil fuels today. We will be at 70% fossil fuels by 2050 globally, the Biden administration estimates. Solar and wind right now produces 1% of energy from wind and 0.8% from solar. This is not a huge thing. It's a fairly tiny bit. And growing explosively. Yes, it's absolutely growing. But actually it's growing slower than what nuclear was growing in the 70s and 80s.

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