Big Ideas That Changed The World-Bjorn Lomberg -Environmentalism

Channel 5 - UK Television Big Ideas That Changed The World five 2005 & 2007 A series of documentaries in which key figures discuss ideas and ideologies which have shaped history. S01E06 - Bjorn Lomberg on Environmentalism (05/07/2005) This debate is presented by the controversial Danish author of 'The Sceptical Environmentalist', Bjorn Lomborg, who traces the origins and history of the green phenomenon, from the small bands of protesters sailing towards nuclear bomb tests of the 1970s, to being one of today's most powerful worldwide movements. -- File details -- Size: 418,312,192 bytes Duration: 38:57.600 Video: XviD ISO MPEG-4, 704x392, packed:no, qpel:no, 1293kb/s Audio: CBR MP3, 128kb/s

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maan1234 (2008-08-15)

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sistromo (2008-08-16)

Bjorn Lomborg does not present ideology. He presents hard data - an altogether different proposition.

maan1234 (2008-09-17)

All the documentaries about ideologies should be backed by hard data about this ideology.
Just fail to get his last point, in the end he claims wealth is the best way to save the environment. I can understand what he's trying to say. Yet while talking about global warming, he says Britain got the cleanest air since centuries, while Britain is still filling the air with greenhouse gasses. So wealth will help fix problems, but it is still creating new problems.
Better healthcare should decrease familysize in developing countries, since parents don't have to breed many children in order to have some children to grow old. But there could be a lag of a generation or so in having the healthcare and shrinking familysize. The unexpected effect would be that a generation of large families would all grow old: an explosive population growth, and then a rapid shrinkage. Both are troublesome.
Anyways, I like the reasoned approach, however until we are capable of prediction the future with 90% certainty, there will never be hard facts to base investments on. Most environmental effects are only felt after years of usage, and hard to predict. Scientist say that global warming will stop at 2 degrees, but that if not, it will be more likely get higher than lower. That's an IPCC's 'hard fact'. Whatever ppm concentration we try to level out on, it will be a bit of a gamble what the effects will be.