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How to make the world a better place - Bjorn Lomborg
« on: December 17, 2018, 06:37:27 pm »
Peterson hosting Bjorn Lomborg

Concept of getting the most benefit, for public expenditures.


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Re: How to make the world a better place - Bjorn Lomborg
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2018, 07:04:21 pm »
This looks good.  Bjorn Lomborg is an interesting guy and an unusual one; a thinking leftist.

@Dexter you might find this interesting.
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Re: How to make the world a better place - Bjorn Lomborg
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2018, 08:10:17 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on December 17, 2018, 07:04:21 pm
This looks good.  Bjorn Lomborg is an interesting guy and an unusual one; a thinking leftist.

@Dexter you might find this interesting.
I first heard of him from Scott Adams, who dubbed him the most sensible voice on climate change. So when I saw that Peterson interviewed him, I watched/listened to the 90 minute program last night.

I rank Adams, Peterson and Lomborg as some of the smartest, yet practicle voices.


Sadly "conservatism" seems stalled insofar as interesting new ideas, concepts, people.


If you listen to this interview, you'll learn it is NOT right vs. left. It is cost-benefit.


The left are winning the argument, now. "we are a rich nation, and we can afford to do everyhing"

Lomborg provides a framework to challenge this.

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Re: How to make the world a better place - Bjorn Lomborg
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2018, 09:02:13 pm »
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjørn_Lomborg

Lomborg is NOT a leftist in the overall scheme f the world. He worked in a center-right administration, in his home country Denmark.

He is widely criticcized as a climate-science "denier," for instance.

He is full of common sense, and advances "cost-benefit" analysis, applied to climate change considerations.

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Re: How to make the world a better place - Bjorn Lomborg
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2018, 09:34:38 pm »
Quote from: truth_seeker on December 17, 2018, 09:02:13 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjørn_Lomborg

Lomborg is NOT a leftist in the overall scheme f the world. He worked in a center-right administration, in his home country Denmark.

He is widely criticcized as a climate-science "denier," for instance.

He is full of common sense, and advances "cost-benefit" analysis, applied to climate change considerations.

I understand what you are saying, but I became familiar with him many years ago when he identified as a leftist and I am using the American version of the term - since that's how I identify.    :laugh:
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Re: How to make the world a better place - Bjorn Lomborg
« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2018, 09:44:57 pm »
Simple.
Begin by minding your own business and allow everyone else to mind theirs.
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Re: How to make the world a better place - Bjorn Lomborg
« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2018, 10:05:47 pm »
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