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

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Renewable Energy

The world does not have the capacity to produce those materials at the scale and cost that's required. Every time we make energy more expensive, what we do is we tilt hundreds of millions of people who are just starting to struggle their way out of absolute poverty right back into what desperate, scrabbling around in the dirt fundamentally. I don't see any evidence at all that tipping hundreds of Millions of people back into absolute poverty is going to do anything, but make the planet a hell of a lot worse.

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