Climate Change, Poverty & Inequality | TED MIGUEL (UC BERKELEY) | Thought Lounge Against Poverty HD

Thought Lounge Against Poverty (TLAP) is a Thought Lounge initiative featuring experts in the field of international development in a dialogue around the question “How do we end poverty?”. This video features Ted Miguel (Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley), a leading scholar in development and environmental economics, talking about climate change in the context of global poverty. His main idea: in order to end global poverty, we must stop climate change, since this is going to have a large negative incidence on poor countries over the next decades. His recent work estimates that “in the next 60-70 years global GDP would fall by about a quarter due to climate change” and that global inequality would be increased by climate change since “the poor countries that start out hot are going to be really, really hurt.” To find out more about his work, visit emiguel.econ.berkeley.edu. At Thought Lounge, we hold that innovations arise when seemingly tangential ideas coming from different fields are discovered to be, in fact, strongly connected. And we believe that this too applies to the fight to end poverty. If you want to learn more about TLAP or would like to be featured in one, visit thoughtlounge.org/tlap. A note on the format: In a Thought Lounge Session, 3 to 6 participants are each given 12 minutes to facilitate a dialogue on a topic of utmost interest and urgency to them. After all “loungers”’ have been given their time, each topic’s name is written up on the whiteboard and an additional 12 minutes is spent drawing connections between the ideas. To know more about Thought Lounge, visit thoughtlounge.org.