Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2022-11-18
Books mentioned on #339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin
Bjørn Lomborg is author of “False Alarm”. Andrew Revkin is a climate journalist (21 years at NY Times).
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Cool it
Cool It by Bjrn Lomborg is a pragmatic environmental book that challenges conventional climate alarms and advocates for cost-effective, prioritized solutions to global issues.
Recommended“Bjørn Lomborg is the president of the Copenhagen Consensus Think Tank and the author of 'False Alarm', 'Cool It', and 'Skeptical Environmentalist'.”
Where to get it
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How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place
How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place by Bjørn Lomborg is a pragmatic policy guide that evaluates global challenges and proposes cost-effective resource allocation strategies to maximize human welfare.
Discussed“so you wrote the book how to spend 75 billion dollars to make the world a better place”
Where to get it
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Fossil Future
Fossil Future by Alex Epstein is a controversial book that argues global human flourishing fundamentally depends on the continued and expanded use of fossil fuels like oil, coal, and natural gas.
Discussed“so he wrote a book uh moral case of fossil fuels and uh fossil future where he makes the case that as a subtitle says Global human flourishing requires oil coal and natural gas or more oil coil and natural gas not less”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Cool it
“please check out his work at lombard.com that includes his books articles and other writing”
Passing False Alarm
“please check out his work at lombard.com that includes his books articles and other writing”
Passing The Skeptical Environmentalist
“please check out his work at lombard.com that includes his books articles and other writing”