Is the world getting it wrong on #climatechange? Should we focus more on #poverty alleviation? #Skeptical #Environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg shares his controversial opinions with Juliet Mann, only on #TheAgenda on CGTN Europe
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00 Global warming is a real problem, but what we also need to recognize is there are many problems in the world.
00:07 What the scientist is telling us is climate change is a real problem, but it's not as many people hear it,
00:14 and it's being presented by many of the activists, if you will.
00:20 It's not the end of the world. It is a problem, and it's one of the many problems,
00:25 like inflation, hunger, poverty, jobs, lack of good education, all these other challenges.
00:31 And so we need to get our sense of priority right, because if we focus too much on one thing,
00:37 we end up forgetting all the others.
00:39 So you think that the global response could be, should be smarter?
00:45 Exactly, because again, we have many problems in the world, hunger, poverty, jobs, health.
00:54 There are all these things that people really do care about.
00:57 And what my organization, together with hundreds of the world's top economists,
01:02 we work with seven Nobel laureates in economics.
01:05 What we try to do is to look at where can you spend an extra dollar or yen or whatever your currency is,
01:13 and do the most good for the world.
01:15 So not just saying let's focus on the things that get the most attention in the news,
01:20 but actually focus on the things that we know do the most good for the world.