How to make the world better. Really. With Dr. Bjørn Lomborg.
December 7, 2018
307,897
11,064
1,632
4.12%
Search the Record
IndexedEvery word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
YouTube Description
as posted by the channelOn December 7, 2018, I spoke with Dr. Bjorn Lomborg, author and President of Copenhagen Consensus Center, a singularly innovative and influential US-based think tank. Dr. Lomborg and his team have done the hard conceptual and empirical work necessary to turn good intentions for global improvement into implementable and economically efficient strategies. That's really saying something.
They have, among other things, analyzed the UN Millenial goals (169 of them, which is far too many), prioritizing and rank-ordering them in terms of practical implementability and costs and benefits. Those who claim to truly care about the world's dispossessed could do far worse than to study Dr. Lomborg's work.
Relevant links re Lomborg:
Onepage overview of rankordered developmental goals
A collection of articles outlining the most appropriate targets for education, health, gender, infrastructure, etc.
Where should we focusLomborg's commentary in Times of India
The top 19 targets for world development
TED talks:
On prioritization
On the cost of global problems(also a book
Specific Book Links (amazon.com):
The Skeptical Environmentalist (2001)
Cool It (2007)(film at Film)
How to Spend 75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place (2014)
The Nobel Laureates Guide to the Smartest Targets for the World (2015)
Prioritizing DevelopmentA Cost Benefit Analysis of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (2018)
Make yourself smart and informed on climate and other issues of sustainability and development:
27 climate economists and 3 Nobel Laureates examine where a dollar can do the climate the most good
The Paris AccordMinimal outcome, $1.2 trillion cost ()explained in a short video
How to make government smarter (with the specific example of recent developments in Bangladesh)
--- SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL ---
Direct Support
Merchandise
--- BOOKS ---
12 Rules for LifeAn Antidote to Chaos
Maps of MeaningThe Architecture of Belief
--- LINKS ---
12 Rules for Life Tour
Reading List
--- PRODUCTS ---
Personality Course
Self Authoring Suite
Understand Myself personality test
Merchandise
Links & Promotions
Guests & Subjects Covered
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.