Jordan Peterson and Bjorn Lomborg build an ARC to save critical thinking and constructive debate
. We need to be able to have an honest discussion of costs and benefits — a true reckoning with the facts to find the best solutions.Article content
We also need to conduct a more mature conversation about how to better help the four-billion people who live in the poorer half of the world. The UN promises everything imaginable in the form of its: the end to extreme poverty, hunger and disease; reduction of inequality and corruption; cessation of war; amelioration of climate change; universalization of education — even ease of access to urban parks.
There are a dozen areas where much could be done for relatively little money. We could efficiently and quickly boost learning in schools, which could not be more vital after COVID lockdowns, save the lives of mothers and newborns, tackle malaria, make government procurement much more efficient, improve nutrition, increase the security of land tenure, turbo-charge the effects of trade, advance skilled migration and increase child immunization rates.
The new ARC forum can help us envision the future in a positive manner, emphasizing the ability of the properly competing and co-operating people of the world to solve whatever problems confront us, as we have done so often — and often so effectively — in the past. ARC thinkers are gathering from around the world to do precisely that.
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