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- most of us want something to believe in most of us need some kind of faith some sort of belief and a higher power
- and so that shifted for many educated people from a belief in god to nature so nature became
- sort of the new god well unfortunately i think the number one
- principle for the environmental movement is submission so you see this whole new morality that gets constructed vegetarianism not
- driving not flying sorting your trash and recycling what it requires is submission to the agenda
- i absolutely think that people who are leading this movement and not just the environmental movement the fringe catastrophic climate change
- sector of that movement are using fear so if you look case by case at the things that could actually conceivably happen
- according to climate scientists even the most far-fetched ones if you factor in our amazing ability to adapt there is no possibility
- of a climate catastrophe what are your three biggest fears trump chronovirus and the climate not the
- planet withering away to a point where we can't live on it anymore like there's just where you don't have a life and i think it may be the end of
- our civilization so when greta thundberg says you've ruined my childhood you've stolen my childhood she's talking about the end of
- the world fear is a very very powerful motivator so most movements that are trying to
- succeed use fear the world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change every night on the tv news is like a
- nature hike through the book of revelation we are in the beginning of a mass extinction
- what are some of the negative consequences of telling people that this is apocalyptic and the world's going to end
- i think we've seen some very significant mental health impacts of this apocalyptic environmental discourse particularly on climate change so we now
- know there have been surveys that one out of five children in britain suffer nightmares from climate change i think that the numbers
- are probably very similar in the united states i suspect that they're even higher how many years do you think we have left
- oh that's such an apocalyptic question right now i i would say maybe three four hundred like 150 200 maybe 20 years tops
- at the most i've also had tornado nightmares nightmares where you wake up and it's like 120 degrees out fear is such a
- controlling emotion for most humans is the strongest emotion and people who have an agenda know that
- so i think it only makes sense and they're targeting the young and really we shouldn't tolerate this we have no more than 12 years
- to take incredibly bold action on this crisis what i'm saying is the planet's on fire
- so i think to understand how climate change became a religion you have to go back to the late 19th century one german philosopher friedrich
- nietzsche pointed out that as belief in god and the afterlife declined people would create new religions and
- that's what happened in the early part of the 20th century the rise of fascism and the rise of communism they basically acted as two new religions for people
- two new moralities they were both apocalyptic in their own way after communism was discredited in the united states and around the world
- in the 50s environmentalism took over that role on the left traditional faiths are declining in
- america and europe around the world and so this is kind of taking the place people have to have something to believe in
- they need something bigger than themselves and so this is just a convenient i think substitute a common narrative
- in religions is that if you violate the god's commandments then you're going to be punished with some sort of hell and you can see there's an enormous
- parallel between this and what you could call the modern environmentalist commandment that we shouldn't impact the earth
- there's just this assumption that if we have any impact on climate or if we consume resources or we put more plastics into the world
- then it must be just a total catastrophe that our activities are changing the climate and if we don't act forcefully we'll
- continue to see rising oceans longer hotter heat waves dangerous droughts and floods and scientifically this is just completely
- unfounded in general our impact on the world makes it a better place to live we're much safer than we used to be
- and we have a much more abundant world the culture as a whole has accepted a religion that's an anti-human impact religion
- we think it's wrong for us to impact nature and we think that if we do there must be disastrous consequences and so what climate change is it offers
- almost a superhero fantasy that there's something that threatens the end of the world and we as individuals will save the
- world i mean it is like a marvel comic strip sort of and so i think what's what's reversed what's happened as the with the rise of the secular
- religion is that individuals adopt a kind of messianic you know story where they are themselves the messiah something that is rejected by
- most traditional religions there's a lot of pressure to switch over to renewables is that a reasonable
- solution for our energy needs we're forcing taxpayers and ratepayers to subsidize for example renewable energy meaning
- wind and solar instead of traditional fuels well here's the truth to power the state of texas with just
- wind or solar you would need an area five times the size of harris county which is houston and the surrounding
- suburbs if you include the wind farms the solar farms and the transmission lines that's not going to happen there's a
- projection that there's a 10x 20x demand for additional rare earth minerals to meet the kind of
- expectations for batteries and storage that many of the renewable strategies actually are are backstopped by in places like the us
- we've actually decided we don't want to do that kind of mining because it's it's not environmentally responsible etc
- and and they actually be able to do the mining deliver it and have it be reliable and sustainable
- that in my mind is is magical thinking you know we've had windmills all the way back to christ's era on earth these are not new
- so wind and solar energy seem impractical but certainly recycling has to be good right most of us feel good about
- recycling we think we're saving the planet keeping our oceans clean or patching up that hole in the ozone layer
- we especially feel good thinking that we're helping poorer countries around the world we feel righteous about it like we're
- doing our duty to our fellow man we are absolving ourselves of our privilege but does recycling actually do good john tierney
- contributing editor at city journal recently asked that simple yet provocative question the results are not what you'd expect
- recycling we use the term all the time we think it means we're saving the planet keeping our oceans clean or patching up the hole in the ozone layer
- but what actually happens when you toss your plastic straw and cup in the blue bin first thousands of trucks made with all
- sorts of environmentally unfriendly parts spewing all sorts of carbon into the air drive to collect your recyclables
- and drive them to the recycling plant but that isn't the end of the story because most of the recyclables taken to the recycling plant
- are too difficult to sort through and the reuse of plastics isn't cost effective so the unrecycled recyclables some of
- which fall into the ocean are then shipped to china well they were until a few years ago when china decided it had had enough of our trash
- and rerouted it to poor east asian countries like vietnam thailand malaysia and indonesia the trouble is
- those countries are even less equipped to deal with our allegedly recyclable trash than china so some of it becomes littered and leaks
- into the natural environment but what happens to most of it is even worse the plastics pile up at illegal trash
- dumps or spew harmful toxins into the air when they're burned in backyard furnaces you'll never have to smell the burning
- garbage in your first world american neighborhood but the east asians living near these dumps and recycling operations
- know all too well how they spoil the air and rivers so why are we mandating costly and environmentally damaging recycling
- operations when both the environment and our wallets would be better off if we set the trash ablaze ourselves
- at least then we'd prevent the plastic from polluting the oceans or we could do the simplest thing of all safely dispose of those plastics as we
- do all the rest of our trash there's a simple step you can take to protect the natural environment and your town's budget throw your
- plastic straight into the trash [Music] we have the facilities right here at home to dispose of our waste properly
- it seems like they have us caught in this daily ritual just to keep us engaged does any good come from these practices
- well they certainly make sacrifices and in this case the sacrifices can often be merely symbolic
- they just don't get anything in return so the average person for example might think that taking the stairs is better than taking the elevator or
- walking to work is better than taking the subway so many sacrifices i'm not going to use a plastic straw there are all these
- things that you can do but the question is what are you really getting in return for that it's almost something that kind of swashes
- the conscience of the person who's participating more than it has a realistic effect on the world around them could you talk
- about the basics of human adaptation the thing to recognize about climate is that it is inherently dangerous so whether we have an impact on it or not
- we're always going to have devastating storms we're always going to have floods we're always going to have sea levels rising and falling that's a very
- common local phenomenon so the question is what is our ability to master climate what is our ability to take the
- different kinds of changes and dangers and climate and deal with it and basically 200 years ago
- nobody had much of an ability to deal with climate and so they were overwhelmed by climate to the point that historically religions pray to climate
- gods because climate is so volatile and so dangerous to people and basically what happens is once you
- have machine power then you have the ability to produce defenses against climate so you can do things like
- warm yourself up when it's cold or cool yourself when it's hot so basically the greater your productive ability is the greater your ability to
- deal with climate and your productive ability depends on your ability to use machines which depends on low cost
- i grew up about 40 miles west of pittsburgh in a little steel town called steubenville ohio i would come through the liberty tunnel
- coming into downtown pittsburgh and i couldn't see across to the other side of the river absolutely covered with smoke and
- and it was often referred to in my hometown as pay dirt people didn't care to have that be part of their community there's
- a push in terms of how do we make this industry more sustainable that touched everything in the industry
- not just the environmental footprint but sustainability being defined in the steel industry is how do i continue to source the
- materials that i'm going to use what kind of technology am i using and much of the new technology that was employed
- other places in the country really transformed the city from what it was to what it is today and i think that's part of the emergence of
- it all it wasn't that the steel industry as it was originally defined was moved somewhere
- else it was a transformation of that industry using new technologies using environmentally responsible and
- advanced technologies that also produced better products that were competitively priced and and competitive in a global marketplace
- and that's really what changed the industry in many ways is looking at what sustainability really means
- nowhere in the united nations in a governmental panel on climate change or in any of the serious scientific literature are
- there predictions of the apocalypse in fact it's surprising to most people to learn that there's no predictions of increasing deaths from natural
- disasters or diseases or any of the other things that are that many people expect to get worse under climate change
- when some of these children who are here are my age here's what it's going to be
- within less than 50 years it'll be here something on the order of 50 percent of people think our species is going to go extinct and so what this
- shows is there's just a fundamental failure of education and communication that instead of telling people what
- scientists actually think are telling them a completely exaggerated and distorted version of it in order to scare them
- honestly i feel that man is kind of a parasite on earth well i think industrialization has been a parasite i think capitalism
- has been a parasite to the earth we're overpopulated we take and take and take and we don't try to refurbish or take care of it so
- like we're killing it we truly are and we should be nurturing it and worshiping it and taking care of it
- but we're not there are stories literally every few months showing that representations made about
- catastrophic climate change haven't come true and they're ignored people have heard so much about climate change but they don't
- know some of the basic facts natural disasters aren't getting worse in fact they're getting better the number of people that die from
- natural disasters has declined over 90 percent over the last 100 years they've declined over 80 percent over the last 40 years
- we should be celebrating this fact it's mostly occurred because our infrastructure is more hardened we're more prepared for natural
- disasters we have better weather forecasting systems so when a hurricane comes to whether it's florida or haiti or bangladesh
- we can prepare for we can get ourselves into safe environments so that's great news uh damage to property has increased
- but it's entirely explained by the fact that we're just much wealthier than we were so if you look at a picture of miami beach in 1920
- a picture of miami beach today there's a lot more buildings on it so when a hurricane hits them there's more damage so that's great news there is no
- scenario in the intergovernmental panel on climate change which oversees all the science of this
- for that trend to reverse itself in other words it's not to say it's impossible but there's no science suggesting that
- climate change is going to become so bad that the number of deaths from natural disasters stops going down and starts going back
- up again whatever the scientists say i'm going to go with people that are actually in that
- world they tell me if you were to boil it all down what are those behind this movement really after
- it requires submission to one government because you know if we only control pollution here but not in china what good does it do us
- none so it necessarily requires that there be jurisdiction exerted around the entire globe and that everyone be on board it also requires
- there be fewer of us if you really get down to the bottom line of what they're after they want fewer
- humans on the planet and when it comes time to decide how to whittle down the human population i doubt they're going to eliminate
- themselves and their offspring the leading thinkers are very explicitly anti-human so they say something like human beings are a cancer
- on the earth that's not a pro-human perspective it means there's something higher than human beings namely the rest of the earth and you
- consider human beings an impediment i mean you have to remember that the elite the whether the people that run the new york
- times the people that you know the democratic politicians the scientists at the universities the well-educated activists the vast
- majority of them are very secular people they really don't have a traditional religion and so they have constructed
- this new religion doomsday cultists have predicted the imminent end of the world for all of recorded history they have always been wrong
- just as wrong as the environmental alarmists are today [Music]
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