Tom Schelling argues that the best way for underdeveloped countries to defend against the adverse effects of climate change is to develop as rapidly as they can.
Who will be the real victims of global warming (and what can they do about it)
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Anything by Tom Schelling is worth a listen
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Table of Contents:
1) Early Life – 0:37
2) Outbreak of World War II – 2:32
3) Studying During the War – 5:45
4) Negotiating the Marshall Plan – 7:40
5) Academia and Government Service – 11:14
6) Self-Taught in Game Theory – 13:14
7) “Games and Decisions” – 14:47
8) The RAND Corp. & Nuclear Strategy – 16:00
9) “Strategy and Arms Control – 18:34
10) The “Red Telephone” – 21:37
11) Arms Control & Mutual Deterrence – 24:46
12) Influence within the Kennedy Administration – 30:05
13) The Problem with Ballistic Missile Defenses – 31:51
14) Dr. Strangelove – 35:42
15) The Kennedy School – 43:20
16) Expansion of the Kennedy School – 47:44
17) The Early Faculty – 49:51
18) Evaluation of Human Life – 51:42
19) Organized Crime, Beer and Laundry – 53:13
20) Modeling Racial Self-Segregation – 58:04
21) Winning the Nobel Prize – 1:00:21
22) Contributions to Scholarship and Public Policy – 1:06:03
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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