Climate Alarmists Are Getting It All Wrong - Dr Bjorn Lomborg - #617

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
What's happening, people, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Bjorn Lomborg. He's an environmental economist, Copenhagen Consensus Center president, public speaker, and an author. Over the past two decades, the media has made some alarming predictions about the imminent end of the world due to global warming. But is this the priority that global efforts should be focused on fixing? Does it have real world benefits, or are there better ways to improve human lives? Expect to learn why Greta Thunberg had to delete a tweet from half a decade ago, the reason why climate change is a favorite fear tactic in the media, the most cost-effective ways to make the world a better place, why sending kids to school doesn't necessarily mean they are educated, why cold weather is much more deadly than heat, just how inefficient it is to save lives through carbon reduction, how dangerous NetZero is as a policy and much more. Bjørn is very interesting, fascinating guy, incredibly well-researched, super empathetic, very reasonable. I loved this episode. It's everything that I enjoy learning about, upturning existing ideas and presumptions around what we should be focused on, genuine, practical, easily applied solutions that can give us something better and a ton of stats and data and great stories to back it up. You're gonna love this one. Don't forget that you might be listening but not subscribed and that is over 50% of you. If you want to support the show, if you want to help me get bigger and better guests every week and if you want to make me very happy, just navigate to Spotify or Apple Podcasts and press the follow button in the middle of the page or the plus in the top right hand corner. It will ensure that you never miss episodes when it goes live and it will make me very happy. I thank you. In other news, this episode is brought to you by Gymshark. 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