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Do These 12 Things First If You Want a Bright Future | Bjorn Lomborg PT 2

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory

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The Self-Reinforcing Loop

I thought it was a really brilliant rejoinder to hey I get it you're trying to address all this stuff at the level of climate but if you remove people from poverty you're actually solving for the thing. humans are able to deal with climate better than they were before. It used to be some ungodly number of I think 500,000 people a year were killed by climate related devastation and now that number is like 11,000. That's a 99% reduction in the thing that that people are really worried about. We want everyone to be wealthy instead of everyone being poor as we're trying to make things equal.

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