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

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is Carbon Dioxide Really Bad?

There's an attraction to relatively simple hypotheses. Maybe we should just focus on carbon dioxide, and then we're doing the right thing. But you don't get to be a planetary savior by jumping up and down and saying carbon dioxide is bad. So let me give you one simpler response to that: There are six and a half billion people on the planet who don't have adequate energy. And I think Alex very effectively argues that it is immoral to deny them the opportunity to develop with adequate energy.

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