The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

Bjørn Lomborg

Dec 8, 2018

01:28:23

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Are You Playing Devil's Advocate?

02:14

Is There Any Political Bias in the Cost Benefit Analysis Approach?

02:07

Climate Change Estimates

05:04

Introduction

3min

Where Should You Spend Your Resources?

2min

How to Spend 75 Billion Dollars?

4min

How to Get the Biggest Bang for Your Buck

2min

Is There Any Political Bias in the Cost Benefit Analysis Approach?

2min

Are You Getting the Right Reliability?

3min

Invest in Free Trade and Family Planning

4min

Is There a Priori Commitment to Climate Change?

4min

Malnutrition

3min

10.

The World's Leading Infectious Disease Killer

2min

11.

Global Warming Is Not the End of the World

2min

12.

Taking Your Business Online With Wicks

2min

13.

Climate Change Estimates

5min

14.

Carbon Emissions - Is the World Coming to an End?

2min

15.

Is There a Non Zero Chance That Global Warming Will Spin Out of Control?

4min

16.

Is There a Risk of an Asteroid?

4min

17.

Are You Consistent With the Discount Rate?

2min

18.

The Cumulative Error Is a Good Idea

5min

19.

Is There an Ideologically Motivated Agenda for Development Aid?

5min

20.

Water in Sanitation - The Biggest Problem in the World

2min

21.

Are You Playing Devil's Advocate?

2min

22.

Is the National Budget a Good Idea?

5min

23.

Are You Making Headway With Climate Change?

2min

24.

What Do You Think About Global Warming?

4min

25.

Is There a Better Solution?

2min

26.

Wouldn't It Be Interesting to Do a Meta Cost Benefit Analysis?

2min

27.

The World Is Never Anyone's Someone Needs to Fix Us

4min

28.

Is There Anything That You Would Like to Say?

2min

29.

You're Calling People to a Great Adventure

5min

I spoke December 7, 2018 with Bjørn Lomborg, author and President of Copenhagen Consensus Center, a singularly innovative and influential US-based think tank. Mr. Lomborg and his team have done the hard conceptual and empirical work necessary to turn good intentions for global improvement into implementable and economically efficient strategies. That's really saying something.