Bjorn Lomborg is an author and political scientist who first came to international prominence for his book, The Skeptical Environmentalist. He is the president of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre. His new book, False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet is available from July on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/False-Alarm-Climate-Change-Trillions/dp/1541647467/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=False+Alarm&qid=1592696130&sr=8-1).
He says the real political challenges that will be faced in very poor developing countries will be the cost-benefit question of stamping out the virus versus having a virus that kills many people, and is very serious. He compares the costs and benefits of preventing deaths from HIV-AIDS in Malawi where an estimated 4000 people could be saved from HIV AIDS for every one saved from coronavirus.
Bjorn believes a moderate lockdown probably makes more sense in the rich world compared to an extreme lockdown, which would be much more costly and probably won't save many more people --although it may turn out to be the right policy in New Zealand as a remote island. But if we don't have a difficult conversation about costs and benefits of the choices we face, that doesn't mean priorities and choices go away.
15 Jun 2020
Jim Murphy
"There has never been a crisis in my lifetime where the poor have come out of the crisis better off." Josie Pagani talk to Jim Murphy about progressive politics in the post-covid world.
Rt Hon Jim Murphy is a former secretary of state for Scotland, Leader of the Scottish Labour Party, a member of both the Tony Blair and Gordon Brown cabinets, and a minister for Europe, technology, employment and welfare. Today he runs Arden Strategies (https://www.ardenstrategies.com), providing advice to progressive political parties and corporates.
He talked to Josie about the economic crisis ahead, the impact it will have on politics, and the way progressives should respond to populists who offer nativism and nationalism. Jim says the politics of identity may be important but has never changed the life chances of someone born into a poor household.
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29 Apr 2020
John McTernan and Marcus Roberts, Politics Post Covid-19
Everything has changed and nothing has changed. Top political strategists John McTernan from BCW Global and Marcus Roberts from YouGov join me to look at politics in the post-Covid rebuild.
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