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Yuval Noah Harari

What Yuval Noah Harari thinks about climate change

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Israeli historian and philosopher, born in 1976; author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century and Nexus; lecturer in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; co-founder of Sapienship in 2019.

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  1. Our readingPreventing catastrophic climate change would cost only low single digits of global GDP, perhaps an extra 2%

    investing

    Their wordsThe crucial news is that the price tag of preventing the apocalypse is in the low single digits of annual global GDP. It is certainly not 50% of annual global GDP, nor is it 15%. Rather, it is somewhere below 5%, perhaps as low as investing an additional 2% of global GDP in the right places.

    ↗The Surprisingly Low Price Tag on Preventing Climate Disaster (TIME)time.com 3rd of 5 in this piece

  2. 3 years earlier

  3. Our readingThe three biggest problems facing everyone on the planet are nuclear war, climate change and technological disruption

    Their wordsThe three biggest problems that everybody on the planet is now facing are nuclear war, climate change, and technological disruption.

    ↗Yuval Noah Harari | 21 Lessons for the 21st Century | Talks at Googleyoutube.com 8th of 12 in this recording

  4. 20 months earlier

  5. Our readingClimate deniers are almost always nationalists, because nationalism has no solution to climate change

    Their wordsbecause nationalism has no solution to climate change. If you want to be a nationalist in the 21st century, you have to deny the problem.

    ↗Nationalism vs. globalism: the new political divide | Yuval Noah Harari (TED Dialogues)youtube.com 6th of 12 in this recording