Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and Bjørn Lomborg go through each of the 'doable dozen,' a series of issues that cost relatively little to solve, and yet doing so would yield exponential returns for developing countries and their impoverished citizens.
Bjørn Lomborg is a Danish author, having written numerous books on climate change such as 'False Alarm,' 'The Skeptical Environmentalist,' and 'How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place.' He is the president of the think tank Copenhagen Consensus Center which focuses on doing the most good for the most people, with increasingly limited budgets. Bjørn's newest book, "Best Things First," is set to release soon, so check out the link below to reserve your copy!
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(0:30) Coming up
(2:12) Intro
(6:02) 200 sustainable development goals
(8:03) How to rank order dire needs
(14:08) The most good for your dollar
(17:28) Responsibility to the world
(18:33) Intro to the 12 Solutions: financial cost and what Humanity gains
(20:13) The resistant ethos
(25:51) Where we're at, how far we've come
(27:34) Natural resources
(30:29) A famous bet, Paul Ehrlich
(35:21) Problem One: maternal and newborn health
(39:17) Family planning, low cost hospitals
(40:20) When newborns don't breath
(42:00) Why it's not top priority
(43:15) Politicians want visible change
(44:53) For one dollar
(45:43) Setting the agenda
(47:37) Timespan and manpower
(50:34) Needed materials for mothers in the developing world
(51:46) Problems Two and Three: Hunger and Starvation
(52:50) Efficient agriculture
(53:32) Is industrialization the wrong path forward?
(54:58) Improving seeds
(57:42) More mouths fed is more mouths to feed?
(1:03:00) Why isn't this a 'heroic' issue?
(1:05:15) The order is not an insult
(1:06:23) Fixing now in the meantime, vitamins
(1:09:08) The seriousness of being stunted in growth
(1:11:21) Community health and basic education
(1:13:38) Why you can't just hand out food
(1:14:59) Problem Four: Corruption
(1:15:15) Procurement
(1:16:24) Real working examples
(1:19:05) Problem Five: Education
(1:19:59) Teaching without comprehension
(1:22:58) How to improve teachers and students
(1:25:10) Teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons
(1:27:00) Zone of proximal development
(1:29:10) Technology teaching
(1:36:16) Problem Six: Malaria
(1:38:50) Nicer mosquitos in the West
(1:41:21) Malaria deaths can be reduced by half for a 10 percent increase
(1:45:01) Problem Seven: Chronic Diseases
(1:46:03) Diuretics and streamlined doctors
(1:48:42) Diet and necessary outlook
(1:51:36) Problem Eight: Land Security
(1:52:20) When your farmland is your lifeblood
(1:54:15) Surveys and registration
(1:55:10) Why invest in what you're not sure you own?
(2:00:24) Problem Nine: Trade
(2:00:53) Why we are so rich, specialization
(2:02:23) Trade accelerates civilization
(2:03:38) Negative impacts
(2:05:24) Why it's worth endorsing
(2:09:21) Writing out your vision, mitigating displacement
(2:12:08) Problem Ten: Skill Migration
(2:14:00) Why not let everyone move?
(2:16:38) Maximizing productivity, filling the skill gaps
(2:18:19) Problem Eleven: Tuberculosis
(2:20:09) An insane death toll
(2:21:48) 45 percent remain untreated
(2:24:09) Incentivizing treatment
(2:25:39) Eradicating disease, Polio
(2:26:39) Problem Twelve: Childhood Vaccination
(2:31:05) A hunger for transcendent good
(2:33:04) Getting on board
(2:36:08) Spectacle versus practical
(2:40:47) Best Things First - Coming Soon
(2:45:28) If you feel your calling is to make change…
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Bookmarks to each Problem:
(18:33) Intro to the 12 Solutions: financial cost and what Humanity gains
(35:21) Problem 1: maternal and newborn health
(51:46) Problems 2 & 3: Hunger and Starvation
(1:14:59) Problem 4: Corruption
(1:19:05) Problem 5: Education
(1:36:16) Problem 6: Malaria
(1:45:01) Problem 7: Chronic Diseases
(1:51:36) Problem 8: Land Security
(2:00:24) Problem 9: Trade
(2:12:08) Problem 10: Skill Migration
(2:18:19) Problem 11: Tuberculosis
(2:26:39) Problem 12: Childhood Vaccination
@JonathanJollimore-hz4cd Says:
Rule one most of people on Earth should try to leave for planets sake just get out of it way and it doable
@robertducharme1573 Says:
A Climate Remediation and De-acidification Suggestion.
There is a lot of discussion and no full agreement about Global Warming, whether it really exists, how serious a threat and the role of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide. However, the following is generally agreed. Namely that a lot of CO2 has been released into the atmosphere since the start of the Industrial Revolution and a lot of it has ended up in solution in sea waters. There is at least 150 times as much CO2 in a cubic meter of sea water as there is in a cubic meter of atmosphere at STP. This is acidifying the sea waters and possibly harming Coral Reefs and other fauna. There has also been some agreement that the Temperature of the Earth has warmed somewhat.
The Earth's rotation and the Coriolis Effect has formed several Tropical/Semi-Tropical Oceanic Gyres, within which the mass of sea water is rotating, clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. Anything floating, i.e., less dense than seawater, tends to float towards the center of the Gyre. There are five main Gyres all of which are Tropical/Semitropical. They are in the North Pacific, South Pacific, Indian, North Atlantic, and South Atlantic Oceans. Together they form a very large proportion of the 70% of the Earth's surface which is covered by water.
The North Pacific Gyre has a lot of floating debris, "the Great Pacific Garbage Patch", some of it being debris washed off Japan by tsunamis following the recent Fukushima Earth Quake. The Southern Hemisphere Gyres do not appear to contain much floating debris.
The North Atlantic Gyre is unique. It contains the Sargasso Sea which is characterized by the presence of two species of Sargassum which float by virtue of oxygen-filled follicles. It was discovered (first documented) by Columbus from his voyage in 1492. There is a Sargasso Sea Commission, with an Office in Washington DC, which is charged with protecting the Sargasso Sea from pollution etc. There is a website that basically describes all of the positive ecological values of the Sea. Strangely there is very little knowledge of the Sea in the Houston Region of the USA.
Since 2011 the Sargassum appears to be overflowing from the Sargasso Sea and moving, via the west bound currents across the north coast of South America into the Caribbean and sometimes into the Gulf of Mexico. This has been attributed to agricultural run off from the USA or Brazil but might be due to the increased levels of CO2 in solution in the sea water.
It has been washing up on beaches through out this region, as one might expect to happen. When it dies and rots it emits H2S. Since a lot of these beaches have tourism as their main industry, the weed has to be removed manually which has given Sargassum a bad name. There are several Facebook entities that keep track of Sargassum landings and there are frequent postings enquiring about Sargassum occurrence on specific tourist areas. The emission of H2S shows that the Sargassum is absorbing Sulfur from the sea water, remembering "Acid Rain" and the high sulfur content of a lot of marine diesel that could be a good thing.
The occurrence of live Sargassum in the Caribbean would, however, make it very easy to put live Sargassum into the Pacific off the west coast of Mexico. From there the currents would carry it all the way across the Pacific, photosynthesizing and growing all the way absorbing a lot of CO2 and heat energy, photosynthesis is an endothermic reaction. Absorbing CO2 from the Ocean would allow more CO2 from the Atmosphere to dissolve in the sea as well as reducing the amount of acidification. The Sargassum would probably stay in the North Pacific Gyre but some might drift into the South Pacific Gyre.
One might balk at the idea of covering a lot of the Oceans with Sargassum but it does have uses. It can be used to make ethanol, paper or cardboard. Someone in the Caribbean is making construction bricks from it and others are feeding it to goats..
If there appears to be some benefit from Pacific Sargassum we could easily add Sargassum to the other Gyres using ships that are transiting the Panama Canal. It currently seems likely that some Sargassum will eventually get into the South Atlantic Gyre, but that may take a while.
I would welcome any thoughts.
Robert O Ducharme PhD, MSc, BA (Oxon)
([email protected]).
@AzazelKarnKane Says:
On your on the right track but adjust your tapestry and we all should be doing and reforest the world is the priority of any and all billionairs that genuinely love unconditionally.
@AzazelKarnKane Says:
V-V
@NC_-ew5ck Says:
Absolutely just unbelievable!
@galgadsmith Says:
Just Elon Musk should pay, but not Bezos, Gates and other billionaires. If top 25 billionaires get together and chip in things could go much better, so stop with 1 billionaire should pay all.
@jshalls1983 Says:
Need to get Bjorn to do a peterson academy course
@moriiiiitz Says:
Does anybody know a good charity to donate to, to support childbirth, these little breathing masks and other things Bjorn mentioned ?
He gives great solutions in theory but it would be even better to help and facilitate action on our side with a charity that he and his teams deemed trustworthy.
@TomasPböckerlyftningschack Says:
About the green revolution I think they miss the problem, i.e. the new varieties of rice and wheat needed a lot of fertilizers and pesticides. I agree we should develop new varieties of grains etc. but we must aim to decrease the use of chemicals. The green revolution did indeed save a billion people from starvation, but the price was the destruction of 10% of all farmland due to loss of fertile soil. Hence, Borlaugs ideas are not sustainable.
@MrHaze1947 Says:
I was watching this until this guy stating mentioning the World Health Organization and then I just moved on to something else.
@emkoravo Says:
55:40 you need to get in touch with Geoff Lawton and or Dr Elaine Ingham
@petitblanc-yt Says:
In regards to the topic of "Moving". I would not go out of my way to suggest this, even though it has been an massive aspect of my life.
The primary weight I place on this topic is the one of Inheritance. We cannot ignore it.
Firstly, my forebears moved from Germany, to South Africa in 1880, in a sense this means they abandoned their inheritance of Nation and Land and took only what they could, being Religion, Culture and Knowledge.
This has had its benefits and downsides. We gained (relative) wealth, and maintained Religion, Culture and Knowledge. The question is, did we gain Nation? And by extension Land? I don't quite think so, one of the advantages we benefitted from was the apartheid reigime. This sacrificed the nation, and I think this threatens the Land.
I have since moved to Germany again myself, and I find myself torn. I do not really feel like I deserve the benefits I have from living here, because my forebears did not earn them. That said, I feel the Religious inheritance I have is one that Germany seems to have squandered. Straddling this line between immigrant and emmigrant is something that needs more thought put into it.
I have not found an answer myself, but I fully understand the conservative perspectives that rail against us immigrants, migrants, and refugees. Our parents did not contribute to this inheritance, we do not deserve it. I just hope to perhaps see if I can earn it.
@all2031 Says:
There are a lot of great ideas to help the poor. All profitable ideas are taken care of by big and/or small businesses. The unmet needs are not profitable. Welcome to reality of the G-7.
@jakefehr3026 Says:
Jordan Peterson, please try to get Bjorn and Elon Musk together on a podcast. Elon is a proponent of Carbon Taxes. I would love to see if Bjorn could change his mind.
@BigLizardEnergy Says:
What about damage to ecosystems and biodiversity as we find new ways to extract things from the Earth?
@ussarng4649 Says:
These all seem like good ideas. However with 20% (that is 1/5 or 1 out of 5) of the people in the US are reliant on food banks. Some it many be from time to time, others or reliant week to week for 100% of their dietary needs. It would likely be a good idea to start at home.
@iancormie9916 Says:
Excellent presentation and not a single reference to gender studies, patriarchy, me-too, or critical race theory. Oh, how we have lost our way.
@iancormie9916 Says:
No matter which country you go to, basic foods are always cheaper than buying processed food at shops or local food stalls. Education is the difference between the moms to buying quality foods rather than the most convenient, (food wagons, shops preprocessed, etc.) sources.
@troyrockwell7744 Says:
Seed stock? Eugenics?
@joelvahrenkamp1360 Says:
Teach your child to read in a 100 easy lessons
@bethstinebaugh6817 Says:
Interesting but solar panels, windmills, and electric cars are not the tech to do this. They are very toxic, the minerals are a limited resource, and use slave labor to produce. We need new tech, what we do now isn't sustainable and increases cost. Thats bad for the poor.
@newyorkeranew Says:
Stooopidest video, ever. Now 14 mins into a video on efficiency and these idiots haven’t mentioned a single priority. What a waste of time. What idiots. I’m outta here.
@jakeforrest Says:
I have met Bjorn Lomborg in person, three times actually, before he got world famous. Back then he was only famous in Denmark.
When he the third time, at a bar, couldn’t remember my name, I got so offended that I decided not to speak to him again.
The man is world famous and I am only (in)famous within my closest family for my ability to tell jokes.
Talk about an ego hurt ! *LOL*
@robert2b2 Says:
At around 1:45:00..... salt is not the health problem it's been made out to be - sugar would be the better thing to discourage people from consuming.
@tonylawton7475 Says:
Mark Mills...
@turbocooker Says:
Wouldn't it be amazing if the Republican party could get behind this along with the church.
@mccm4497 Says:
The more I listen, the more I feel like the real change needs to be on the moral front
@xivix6710 Says:
Went here after seeing yoy recommended Bjorn, veey intresting person, hope his ideas are adopted worldwide!
@ibelieve3111 Says:
Hey
@curtisvalle5141 Says:
Too bad the zealots will actively ignore this. The goal is actually launder as much taxpayer cash as possible to your donors, That goal is right on target.
@RayTaylor Says:
Jordan let's go ahead on one of the crowdfunders, maybe e-procurement as really boring but really important?
@RayTaylor Says:
Is there an accessible written summary of the 12 somewhere? ideally with key refs
@ahmdf Says:
Guys, if we ever have to appoint a king of Earth, I think I know whom we should go for.
@RedStallion2000 Says:
My Goodness, as my screen started to display this video and all I heard was the audio, I thought it was Better Call Saul talking 🤣
@AAA9549-w7w Says:
I am certain the planet can save itself. This means not you should not try to do things that would be correct, however, the planet does not need the sort of help that you may. For the planet to rejuvenate it needs to get humanity out of it. compleatly. It cannot be possible without rejecting all.
@sentientstill Says:
i'd rather have my dog offer some ideas about how to heal than this driveling tool, and i don't even have a dog
@mixchief Says:
Would it be right to say they're virtually prescribing socialism as the first priority? Leveling capital differences and having the rich share some of their wealth to make sure everyone's above a certain economic threshold, sounds like the essence of socialism but I could be wrong.
@Natraj_Chaturvedi Says:
You need to educate the politicians first in countries like mine (India) They worship (and fear) the global left and take every word of theirs as gospel truth.
The fear part is even more insidious actually. Even when the politician knows that some policy will be harmful, they fear the hounding by the radical global leftists and the leftist foot soldiers stationed in their own countries. So they will implement what the radical environmental types want and virtue signal about it to at least get the political brownie points.
Teach our politicians about these things and to have a spine please 🙏🙏
@ChacaChaca7 Says:
Dr. Peterson is very funny through out this podcast. Fully enjoyed it. Thanks. 😎
@marcofearg9956 Says:
this guys thinks governements want to do good things, they just dont care
@sammcrae8892 Says:
Read A Step Further Out by Jerry Pournelle -- a bit dated, but it tells not only HOW to do all of this, but why we MUST do this¡
@deezert.1539 Says:
Taxing cigarettes is just going to put them on the black market shopping list and your going to think that people stopped buying cigarettes and your saving lives, but in reality just as many people still smoke. The only thing that changed was who the smokers bought their cigarettes from. I mean who wants to buy cigarettes for $20 a pack when you can get them for $5 or less a pack. If you want people to stop smoking... idk train more hypnotherapists or invest in support groups or something else. I don't know what will work. I still smoke. I wish I knew how to stop wanting too enough to do so but I just haven't found the way yet.
@ritaparker5233 Says:
Could everyone please stop demanding that Elon Musk solve all the world’s problems. The issues that Laurinburg is talking about are going to be solved and can be solved by other people if they put their minds to it and their money into it. The problems that Musk is already dedicating his life to solving will probably never be solved unless he continues focusing all his efforts on them.
@centerleft3634 Says:
Allow regional supply and demand to determine the price of credit, goods and services. Stop the budgetary quota deficit spending scam that feeds the debt boom, bust and bailout cycles using taxpayer secured slush funds. Stop public money from going to the private hands of the criminal lobbyist syndicate.
@BarnJ Says:
The problem is that Bjorn is too autistic and thinks the UN is speaking literally when they write these goals. He doesn't realize the coded language the globalist totalitarians at the UN are using in that document.
E.g. "Fresh clean water for all" doesn't mean lets figure out how to get fresh water to all people. It means lets have a cabal of unelected bureaucrats seize the means of water production and redistribute water resources from rich areas and give it to poor areas. And use water as a bartering chip to make everyone comply.
They dont actually care about solving the world's problems. They care about using a shield of virtue to gain control over every single aspect of your life.
@concernedcitizen803 Says:
These are noble goals however the lower end of American life has diminished drastically I work nearly every day of the week and often skip meals for my children
@6spdkeg Says:
1:03:13 yup. Lots of great ideas fall to def ears. Lots of people simply wont do things that they can't fully understand and dont trust and dont see the financing benefiting them. The bureaucracy also gets involved and if people see aomething as competition, they'll pay large sums of money for others to bin that idea or action. The base of corruption in agriculture stems from people that run detractor campaigns and those that choose to keep letting the big wigs eat their competition. The governments in some areas are also doing a terrible job with land management and regulation.
@Babesinthewood97 Says:
Your names both mean bear, btw. :)
@Babesinthewood97 Says:
But there’s a vaccine against tuberculosis too. I have it.
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