July 9, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
03:05
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| Dennis Prager here. | |
| One of my favorite people is Bjorn Lomborg. | |
| He is at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. | |
| Latest book is False Alarm about climate change. | |
| Founder of the Copenhagen Consensus Center. | |
| And he is Dutch. | |
| A member of a people I consider... | |
| He's Danish. | |
| He's Danish, I'm sorry. | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| Woo, that was terrible. | |
| Bjorn, I can't believe. | |
| That was one of the great boo-boos of my radio career. | |
| Okay, what am I going to do? | |
| I should remember, because I had you say happy birthday in Danish, and I found that to be one of the more challenging linguistic phenomena. | |
| Would you say that again, though, for those who are having a birthday today? | |
| No, it was just Telugu? | |
| That was it? | |
| There was one much longer one. | |
| Happy New Year? | |
| Well, okay. | |
| Telugu versus Titan. | |
| Now we're talking. | |
| Now we're talking. | |
| That's what I remember from my days in Copenhagen. | |
| So I have two dreams. | |
| Nuclear power and desalinization plans. | |
| I have not... | |
| I read you on the second, and maybe you don't have a foreign policy, but I'm gambling on the belief that you do. | |
| Oh, I mean, look, desalinization is an obvious solution to a problem that a lot of countries, especially hot countries, have. | |
| They don't have enough potable water. | |
| And I don't know if you remember, but... | |
| Back in the late 1990s, a lot of people would be saying the last wars were about oil, but the next wars in the 21st century will be about water. | |
| But of course they're not, because people build desalization plants. | |
| So again, this is one of those places where if you have enough energy, if you have enough technology and innovation, you can solve pretty much all problems. | |
| Exactly. | |
| So what stops people from building? | |
| I mean, I live in California. | |
| We're told what a terrible drought we're having, which is true. | |
| And why are we not building more desalinization plants? | |
| I don't know specifically for California, but certainly in general, it's a very good question why you don't do this if the economics are there. | |
| Remember, a lot of water right now is used often to subsidize. | |
| Pretty inefficient farmers, which is often, not in California, I would imagine, but many places, not a very effective use of water. | |
| But certainly water for people, that is municipal water, is a very good investment and something that you should just have your desalination plant. | |
| Well, God bless you. | |
| I'm sorry, my friend. | |
| All right, Bjorn, thank you again. |
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