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Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin | Lex Fridman Podcast #339

Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin | Lex Fridman Podcast #339

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Toyota Prius

Toyota

“the Prius was fantastic”
“I loved moving to the hybrid the Prius was fantastic and did everything our other sedan did but it was 60 miles per gallon performance”— Andrew Revkin

The guest's own work

BookBy the guestISBN verified

False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet

Bjorn Lomborg

“Bjorn you wrote the most recent one called false alarm how climate change Panic costs us trillions hurts the poor and fails to fix the planet good title”— Lex Fridman
BookBy the guestISBN verified

Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming

Bjorn Lomborg

“author of false alarm cool it and skeptical environmentalists please check out his work at lombard.com that includes his books”— Lex Fridman
BookBy the guestISBN verified

The Skeptical Environmentalist

Bjorn Lomborg

“author of false alarm cool it and skeptical environmentalists please check out his work at lombard.com that includes his books”— Lex Fridman
BookBy the guestISBN verified

How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place

Bjorn Lomborg

“so you wrote the book how to spend 75 billion dollars to make the world a better place so on can we just list some of the things”— Lex Fridman
BookBy the guest

The Human Planet: Earth at the Dawn of the Anthropocene

Andrew Revkin (with Lisa Mechaley)

“Andrew you co-wrote the book The Human planet Earth at the dawn of the anthropocene which is the new age when humans are actually having an impact”— Lex Fridman
MediaBy the guest

A Very Fine Line

Andrew Revkin

“you're also a musician so one one of my favorite songs of yours an album a very fine line I should mention that with the stroke coming close to death the lyrics here are quite brilliant”— Lex Fridman

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

BookReferenced

The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels

Alex Epstein

“he wrote a book uh moral case of fossil fuels and uh fossil future where he makes the case that Global human flourishing requires oil coal and natural gas”— Lex Fridman
BookReferencedISBN verified

Fossil Future

Alex Epstein

“he wrote a book uh moral case of fossil fuels and uh fossil future where he makes the case that Global human flourishing requires oil coal and natural gas”— Lex Fridman
BookReferencedISBN verified

Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters

Steven Koonin

“Steve coon and there's another one he's a brilliant guy he wrote a bestseller that came out recently on skepticism about climate”— Andrew Revkin
BookReferencedISBN verified

The Ministry for the Future

Kim Stanley Robinson

“I just spent some time with Kim Stanley Robinson who wrote that book Ministry of the future which is this sprawling novel about a worst case outcome”— Andrew Revkin
MediaReferenced

An Inconvenient Truth

Davis Guggenheim (inferred)

“it was after Al Gore's movie The Al Gore movie came out Inconvenient Truth the hurricane Katrina's big”— Andrew Revkin
MediaReferenced

Don't Look Up

Adam McKay

“even in Adam McKay's movie The don't look up movie there was that sort of knee-list crowd for those who've seen it”— Andrew Revkin
MediaReferenced

The Concert for Bangladesh

George Harrison

“one of which was the Beatles of George Harrison's concert for Bangladesh great album that I still have somewhere”— Andrew Revkin