THIS ONE IDEA could save MILLIONS of lives | Bjorn Lomborg ARC Conversations

[@TheGerardHolland]

Such a privilege to talk this through with you Bjorn! By encouraging open, non-ideological discussions, we can spark the creativity needed to drive real change.

[@sukkelsmurf]

This is a storyteller making hope again!! Not stories from the thumb but based on science. We need more Bjorns in this world.

[@FlugHerr]

Love to listen to Lomborg

[@MovieSniper]

Bjorn is always refreshingly pragmatic. Wish we had more dialogue of this sort in politics.

[@lindsaysmith8119]

Don't hold your breath. The focus of most career politicians is getting re-elected.

[@izzygrandic]

This is absolutely brilliant.

[@amazingjason455]

What do we want? Incremental improvement. When do we want it? In due time.

[@DarrenLewis-kr7nc]

😂

[@reinhardfuchs5181]

THANKS ! best things first !

[@amazingjason455]

Getting children reading by the end of second grade is crucial. K-2 should heavily focus on phonics and consistently use curriculum proven to work.

[@clivemarriott7749]

Governments generally seem to make the worst choices but those which enrich and reward their donors and supporters. Lomborg has the right idea but it will be resisted by those who's business plan is spending trillions of our money on climate alarmism. I think that you have to go around government interference and let private research innovate out of our problems. Many good ideas here from Lomborg and backed up by statistical analysis. 👍👍

[@imnotanalien7839]

Every nation should already be doing this. Government’s in most countries want ‘rich countries’ to pay for other countries who CHOOSE not to implement successful economic policies. They are not stupid people…they just want someone else to pay. 90% of speeches at the UN… were countries demanding and expecting other countries to financially support them. Each sovereign country must be responsible for it’s own economic success. One group can’t be serf’s to the rest of the world.🌎. Trade not aid. There are PhD’s in all sovereign nation’s.

[@anthonymorris5084]

Exactly. We're supposed to apologize for creating the modern world. This is a Marxist movement determined to destroy the Western world.

[@0_3_6_9_0]

Thank you! With regards to distribution issues, reducing the manufacturing sector relative to energy consumption while increasing the durability & longevity of the products (eg: automobiles) relative to average median incomes with better warranty or guarantee services might be a good idea?

[@Nyrf7]

Does anybody has a link or atleast a way how to find those new 2024 economic papers about climate change that he mentioned?

[@deadxapes8068]

🔥🔥🔥

[@TimeIsTiempo]

WOOHOO ANOTHER VIDEO

[@TimeIsTiempo]

ARC is so symbolic... Especially when it's juxtaposed to the 🌈.

[@bway_4423]

Climate king!

[@casey2806]

Bjorn seems to think we live on a planet with infinite resources. He also seems to be unaware that one reason developed countries are cleaner is that they have exported all their dirty, polluting production to developing countries. It is not so much that we must be poorer, but we need to be more conscious of how we live. Danish architect and sustainable design engineer Dani Hill-Hansen lobbied the government for much tighter regulations to drastically reduce emissions in order to meet the Paris Agreement. They found that significant improvements were made when the industry was held accountable and forced to make adjustments. Too often, we make plans, set targets, and accept failure without holding people accountable.

[@ValidatingUsername]

If only there was a way to use a massive gpu farm to run the electronic screens in a hotel and heat the water the guests use 😊

[@jumblestiltskin1365]

Current climate policy boils down to this for me. A saying. "No one went forward by moving backward". Worse than this, moving backward at an enormous cost being paid to some of the worst people on Earth.

[@mughat]

The problem with Bjørn is that he is judging god and bad using a collectivist standard "The greater good". I think my money is better spent by me. Not government.

[@anthonymorris5084]

We need more fossil fuels not less.

[@JonBuckley-wt3mu]

No he is talking about making fuel f rom algae, ie a renewable resource making fuel not uzing fossil fuel.......which when one burns releases CO2 that has been tied up for tens of thousands of years.

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@JonBuckley-wt3mu I'm fully aware. None of this negates my statement that right now the world needs more fossil fuels not less. Algae is not presently a viable option.

[@dirkvanschalkwyk1919]

​@@anthonymorris5084While the growth in energy demand exceeds the rate of building and distributing reliable non-fossil alternatives, you are correct. Just because China has built a mega windfarm in the Gobbi Desert, in the province where a lot of coal is being mined, does not mean that they aren't building plenty new coal power plants. It shouldn't go unnoticed that the Gobbi generated electricity is not being consumed to capacity due to grid capacity issues and also as data server companies don't want to locate there, so the CCP could motivate people to build it there, but others are too precious to farm with data there, so a case of some being more equal than others, despite the dogma.

[@DaveDayCAE]

Bjorn needs to get up to date on solar technologies. Videos by Tony Seba and ReThinkX here on KZbin would be a place to start. Solar, Wind and Batteries are already being deployed at twice the rate of any other source and will accelerate to 6X that rate over the next 10 years. Nuclear will never compete with that. Bjorn states (in error) that you need 2-4 months of battery storage. Tony Seba has proven that the necessary battery storage is from hours to days (not weeks or months!) for anywhere at or below the Arctic/AntArctic Circle. He has demonstrated that the amount of batteries required varies with the amount of solar deployed, in a "J" curve fashion. You can deploy more solar panels (the cheapest parts, compared with the batteries) and fewer batteries. Errors of this magnitude call into question the rest of what Bjorn says, unfortunately.

[@aliendroneservices6621]

"...solar technologies..." No proof-of-concept in powering any factory or data-center or city or country.

[@dirkvanschalkwyk1919]

Nah, the wind, solar and battery people and their allies, always exaggerate the capabilities of these solutions, so it is best to have nuclear and some LNG back-up for now and for a taste of reality, shed electricity to the domestic consumers when demand outstrips supply, no smart meter is required. No steel mill can operate efficiently on unreliable energy supply, in spite of what a German politician has claimed recently. (He actually said that manufacturing should stop during Dünkelflaute.) On operating a domestic solar and battery system for a year now, I have concluded that expanding the battery capacity, would be a waste during the rainy winter months when a useful percentage charge could not be achieved.

[@frankcloutier5495]

Honest question. What are the benefits of living much older? If it's not in good health, I don't see how it helps anyone. If it's to be a source of labor and of wisdom for longer, I'm all for it, but keeping old demented people taking excessively profitable drugs for longer seems to me to be part of the problem. Living 65 productive and fulfilling years is much better than living up to 90, spending the last 25 years completely incapable of contributing anything

[@Jcremo]

I agree. We don’t want our elderly to be sick. We want them to thrive for longer. 💕