#339 – Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #339 Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin:

  1. False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet by Bjorn Lomborg
  2. The Human Planet: Earth at the Dawn of the Anthropocene by George Steinmetz, Andrew Revkin
  3. The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World by Andrew Revkin
  4. Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast by Andrew Revkin
  5. The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels by Alex Epstein
  6. Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas – Not Less by Alex Epstein
  7. The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

Bjørn Lomborg is a Danish author and president of the think tank Copenhagen Consensus Center. He is former director of the Danish government’s Environmental Assessment Institute in Copenhagen. He became internationally known for his best-selling and controversial book The Skeptical Environmentalist. Wikipedia

Andrew C. Revkin is an American science and environmental journalist, author and educator. He has written on a wide range of subjects including destruction of the Amazon rain forest, the 2004 Asian tsunami, sustainable development, climate change, and the changing environment around the North Pole. Wikipedia


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