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323. Unsettled: Climate and Science | Dr. Steven Koonin

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Climate and Energy - It's a Problem of Complexity?

I think what happens to these leaders, and I've seen a fair bit of this in Canada, is that people get inflamed about a particular issue because they're afraid. And then the politicians who have very little courage on the electoral front use very, very badly designed public opinion polls to sample people's terror at the level of whim. So it's actually quite a mystery to me. Both climate and energy are complicated, nuanced subjects. They can't be distilled down into sound bites. What we do involves trade-offs, and the politicians will not let the public be informed enough about those trade-offs to make a decision.

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