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213. Don't Climate Panic - An Investigation into The Proposed Solutions to Climate Change

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Making Poor People Richer Is an Extremely Intelligent Environmental Move

Making poor people richer is an extremely intelligent environmental move for a variety of reasons. If we make poor economic decisions because we're catastrophizing a certain kind of environmental calamity, we're inviting, we're actually increasing the risk of environmental degradation in the medium and long term. So i think it's funny how we don't recognize how terrible it is to be poor. You're very clearly, incredibly vulnerable to global warming. The best way to help these people, obviously, would be to lift them out of poverty. But as you get richer you are act cleaner in almost all ways. It would simply generate much, much better lives in the philippines.

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