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high class.
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So welcome to your lectures on whether the global warming
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is a technological trap.
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This is a an overview of what your lectures will
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be on, intellectual will be on the skeptical environmentalist and
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lecture to will be on innovations and technology where we
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will concentrate on the carbon capture.
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So, Good morning everyone and welcome to your first lecture,
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we're going to start diving into the book called the
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skeptical environmentalist.
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So what about the author?
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Um, we're going to learn about those are called Beyond
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Lomborg, who was a very interesting man to say the
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least. He wrote a heavily critiqued book, which is called
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the skeptical environmentalist protective parent.
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So the book itself was published in 1998.
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Um, and the main motivations for his book because he
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wants to demolish any anxiety associated with the end of
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our world through a statistical analysis pain points, I guess
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brace yourself because there are quite a few.
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Yeah, so long buck argues that the litany which is
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a misconception of the real state of the earth, has
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been exaggerated by the media because the main entrance, Sorry
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guys, So long bog argues that the litany, which is
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the misconception of the real state of the earth is
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being exaggerated by the media by misinterpreted data and constant
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threats of the so called doomsday.
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This is because the media's main goal is to attract
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and obtain an audience.
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For example, you often hear that 18% of the developing
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world is starving, but in actual fact that used to
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be 30% in 1970.
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So really we're doing a lot better than we used
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to. Data is presented in the same mannerism in all
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issues related to the state of the earth, such as
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the economic development, energy and global warming.
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So after a first part of a litany in his
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book, he touches on economic development was um he looks
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into a series of trends that refer to human welfare
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and claims that battles such as overpopulation have been one
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due to a better standard of living, which has been
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provided by the fact that they have better medicine, better
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healthcare and more to eat.
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He then highlights that the main in the environmental issues
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are area specific and correlated to poverty.
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I don't really know that slide.
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So in your next lecture with Emily, you're going to
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learn about what he says about energy.
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Okay, so long bob almost entirely devotes this chapter to
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attacking the belief that the world is running out of
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energy and believe that lumber group regards as environmental litany.
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His main argument states that there are simple amounts of
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the ample amounts of energy resources to support the human
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population for thousands of years.
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He claims that publication stating or the patient levels being
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dangerously low.
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A mere myth and that shale oil will give us
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thousands of years supply as much as we have an
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apparent sufficient amount of non renewable energy resources.
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Landmark also mentions the importance of innovating technology in the
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renewable energy space.
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He states that even though the renewable energy sector doesn't
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make up a significant amount of the global energy production,
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share demand and innovation, demand.
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Innovation and technology advancement will change that in the future.
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He goes on to use an analogy to describe his
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feelings about the energy crisis where he got what he
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says, just as a Stone Age did not end for
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the lack of Stone, the oil Age will eventually end,
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but so long board almost Longbow, Let's go again.
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Don't continue.
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Okay, Lonborg almost entirely devotes this chapter to attacking the
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belief that the world is running out of energy.
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His main argument states that there are a large amount
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of energy resources to support the human population for thousands
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of years, as much as we have an apparent sufficient
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amount of non renewable energy resources.
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Lombardy also mentions the importance of innovating technology in the
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renewable energy space.
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He states that even the renewable the renewable energy sector
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doesn't make up a significant portion of the global energy
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production share.
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Yet demand, innovation and technology advancement will change that.
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He goes on to use this analogy to describe the
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energy crisis just as the Stone Age did not end
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For the lack of stone, the spoilage will eventually end,
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but not for the lack of oil rather it will
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end because of the eventual availability of superior alternatives.
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And now we are going to learn a bit about
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the global girl climate change from my colleague charlotte.
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Now we're gonna move on to the next portion of
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the lecture which is a global warming covered by my
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colleague charlotte.
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Now we're gonna move on to the next portion of
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the lecture which will be above global warming and my
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colleague charlotte is gonna talk about it.
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Yeah. So Lamberg uses a cost benefit analysis to tackle
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the global warming issue.
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And out of his main arguments he says that the
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models used by the IPCC are inaccurate and inadequate because
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the climate the climate sensitivity uh is not accurate.
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And additionally uh he predicts a more rapid transition to
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non review.
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Nonrenewable, thank you.
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Sorry, transition to non renewable fossil energy by mid century
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he also condemns the I.
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P. C.
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C. Hidden political agenda implying less climate change but also
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less wealth.
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Mhm. Yeah.
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So lundberg uses a cost benefit analysis to tackle the
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issue of global warming and one of his main argument
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is that the models used by the IPCC are inaccurate
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and that the climate sensitivity is in adapted.
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Additionally, Lamberg predicts uh faster transition out of non renewable
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fossil energies by mid century approximately.
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He also condemns the eyepieces hidden political agenda um which
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implies less climate change as well as less wealth.
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Yeah it's not strange.
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So in this graph Lonborg compares the different scenarios by
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the IPcc on different levels.
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Rather economic focused or environmental focused and also in levels
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of wealth.
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And he says that the total extra benefit is above
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$107 trillion, which is more than 20 times the cost
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of global warming.
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According to him, a strong global economy will also enable
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to protect ourselves better against global warming since it would
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be so costly to greatly reduce emissions, a better solution
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is to slow down and control emissions and to adapt
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to raising temperatures.
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Hence the optimal policy is to control these these emissions,
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and we should do so until the middle of the
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century. So in that sense, we need to keep the
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economy strong and business as usual, shall continue.