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Climate change
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What the corpus says
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60% of people in OECD countries believe global warming could lead to human extinction.
Bjørn Lomborg · Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin
Electric cars are currently inefficient at cutting carbon emissions due to high costs and battery pollution.
Bjørn Lomborg · Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin
Fracking has reduced U.S. carbon emissions more than any other single action by replacing coal with natural gas.
Bjørn Lomborg · Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin
The Inflation Reduction Act's models overlook community resistance to infrastructure changes like new transmission lines.
Bjørn Lomborg · Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin
Developing countries like Ghana face energy development challenges due to lack of funding for natural gas.
Bjørn Lomborg · Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin
Ben Shapiro argues that the best protection against evil is recognizing its potential within everyone.
Shapiro claims that banning individuals from social media is akin to 'unpersoning' them unless they break laws.
He suggests that the West's pre-war policy towards Ukraine was flawed, provoking Russia by encouraging NATO membership without granting it.
Shapiro believes that respect, rather than love, should be the foundation for treating strangers.
He argues that human beings are poor at climate change mitigation but excel at adaptation.
Chomsky argues NATO's eastward expansion violated promises to Gorbachev, fueling Russian aggression.
Noam Chomsky · Noam Chomsky: Putin, Ukraine, China, and Nuclear War
The U.S. has committed $6.9 billion in military aid to Ukraine since Russia's invasion.
Noam Chomsky · Noam Chomsky: Putin, Ukraine, China, and Nuclear War
Voices on climate change
12 standout quotes from across the corpus.
Go read
16 books and papers cited across these episodes.
For the specialist
What experts find new
13 expert-level takeaways for a specialist reader.
At the frontier
Still unresolved
9 open questions flagged across these conversations.
The thinkers
Who takes this idea on, by how often they return to it.
