Is Climate Change A Real Threat? With Bjørn Lomborg – #063 – Stay Free With Russell Brand

Poor Russell got punked.

This Bjørn fella is a Danish economist, really sunny and cheerful. He peddles hopium instead of Russell’s standard copium, and all of us, including RB, wanted to believe him when he said:

1) Climate change is no big deal. If you look at it like an economist, ‘we’ will only be four percent more worse off at the end of the century because of it.

2) The way past that minor inconvenience isn’t about solar panels or wind farms (he’s right so far), but through “innovation” in things like “fourth generation nuclear” (I’m guessing he means fission over fusion, but who knows).

3) Fewer people are dying of climate events than ever before. More people are being lifted out of poverty than ever before.

I’m not going to take all that point by point, but my desire to Believe was consistently hobbled throughout, by the pretty obvious flaws in those arguments. RB pushed back too, clearly trying to understand with good will, right up until the moment (51:19) that he accidentally discovers that all of Bjørn’s projects, books and think tank included, are funded by evil mastermind Bill Gates, and responds with a literal “Holy Shit!”.

Holy shit indeed.

It’s a dealbreaking fact that should have been sussed out long beforehand by one of Russell’s chirpy and pretty Gen-Z interns. It wasn’t. It makes the whole dialectic of the interview essentially pointless.

Follow the money, like Deep Throat famously said.

Bjørn may not be a bad guy, overall, but he is a lavishly paid stooge of the elites, and as such, we the viewers would be fools to take a word he says at face value. And in fact, we (at least 120,000 of us on Rumble alone) and Russell too, did get played here.

The problem is that there are way too many lavishly paid stooges sprinkled in amongst the well-meaning liberals of the world, and it’s a problem that’s gonna kill us all, one way or the other.

Each one of them believes themselves to be on the side of the good, and believes that they have good money and a comfortable life today because of it. We went to school. We worked hard, harder than the Qanon shaman ever did in his life. We succeeded, and made a better world while we were at it. We deserve the life we have, and so does Bjørn.

So does Delaware Democratic Senator Chris Coons, as he speaks so charmingly and intelligently to his fellow attendees at Davos.

But that’s a topic for a whole ‘nother show, and as for me I’m just going to leave it there and get on with my Sun Day. After all, the Niners are playing the Cowboys today for a spot in the conference championship game, and a man’s got to have his priorities straight. Eventually.