Björn Lomborg: Climate Change, Public Spheres, and Technological Solutions

Utility + Function - A podcast by Matthew Putman

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Dr. Björn Lomborg is an academic and author of the bestselling titles "False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet", "The Skeptical Environmentalist" and "Cool It". He is currently a visiting fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and President of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, a think tank convening the world’s top economists to conduct research on the most effective methods for resolving global humanitarian crises. Dr. Lomborg’s primary area of research interest is climate change, and his work is dedicated towards edification of the general public as well as policymakers. He is a contributor to preeminent publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Economist, Washington Post, Forbes Magazine, Globe & Mail, The Guardian, The Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Times, The Australian, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe and Der Spiegel.