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285. How to Make the World a Better Place | Bjørn Lomborg & Ralph Schoellhammer

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Only Way Forward to Planetary Salvation Is to Make People Rich, Not Poor

Malthusian biologists say there's no way the planet can support us if we're all rich, especially if we have first world living standards. And so the only thing we can do is cut back dramatically while in the first world. The problem with that means that if you cut back the economy so that rich people get poorer, you doom poor people to starvation. But economists say instead, well, look, we can get more bang for the buck continually. We can drive towards an efficiency that overcomes the malthusian problem.

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