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#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Power of LPG Propane
Modi recognized that middle class people in India cook on LPG propane or on piped gas, natural gas if they're in cities. Compared to like chopping down trees and cooking on wood, it's actually better for the climate, even though it's a fossil fuel. The most powerful story I ever heard from a UN Secretary General was Ban Ki-moon when they were rolling out this sustainable energy for all initiative. He was growing up in post-war Korea. Everyone was poor. Everything was broken, destroyed. And he would do his homework by kerosene lamp. This was a brighter flame, you know, better grades maybe. And he became Secretary General.
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