Religion of Green | Short Documentary | PragerU
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0:09 most of us want something to believe in most of us need some kind of faith some sort of belief and a higher power
0:16 and so that shifted for many educated people from a belief in god to nature so nature became
0:24 sort of the new god well unfortunately i think the number one
0:31 principle for the environmental movement is submission so you see this whole new morality that gets constructed vegetarianism not
0:39 driving not flying sorting your trash and recycling what it requires is submission to the agenda
0:48 i absolutely think that people who are leading this movement and not just the environmental movement the fringe catastrophic climate change
0:55 sector of that movement are using fear so if you look case by case at the things that could actually conceivably happen
1:04 according to climate scientists even the most far-fetched ones if you factor in our amazing ability to adapt there is no possibility
1:12 of a climate catastrophe what are your three biggest fears trump chronovirus and the climate not the
1:35 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
1:42 our civilization so when greta thundberg says you've ruined my childhood you've stolen my childhood she's talking about the end of
1:49 the world fear is a very very powerful motivator so most movements that are trying to
1:56 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
2:03 nature hike through the book of revelation we are in the beginning of a mass extinction
2:09 what are some of the negative consequences of telling people that this is apocalyptic and the world's going to end
2:14 i think we've seen some very significant mental health impacts of this apocalyptic environmental discourse particularly on climate change so we now
2:22 know there have been surveys that one out of five children in britain suffer nightmares from climate change i think that the numbers
2:28 are probably very similar in the united states i suspect that they're even higher how many years do you think we have left
2:34 oh that's such an apocalyptic question right now i i would say maybe three four hundred like 150 200 maybe 20 years tops
2:42 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
2:50 controlling emotion for most humans is the strongest emotion and people who have an agenda know that
2:57 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
3:05 to take incredibly bold action on this crisis what i'm saying is the planet's on fire
3:17 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
3:22 nietzsche pointed out that as belief in god and the afterlife declined people would create new religions and
3:31 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
3:39 two new moralities they were both apocalyptic in their own way after communism was discredited in the united states and around the world
3:46 in the 50s environmentalism took over that role on the left traditional faiths are declining in
3:54 america and europe around the world and so this is kind of taking the place people have to have something to believe in
4:00 they need something bigger than themselves and so this is just a convenient i think substitute a common narrative
4:07 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
4:17 parallel between this and what you could call the modern environmentalist commandment that we shouldn't impact the earth
4:24 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
4:31 then it must be just a total catastrophe that our activities are changing the climate and if we don't act forcefully we'll
4:39 continue to see rising oceans longer hotter heat waves dangerous droughts and floods and scientifically this is just completely
4:48 unfounded in general our impact on the world makes it a better place to live we're much safer than we used to be
4:55 and we have a much more abundant world the culture as a whole has accepted a religion that's an anti-human impact religion
5:03 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
5:12 almost a superhero fantasy that there's something that threatens the end of the world and we as individuals will save the
5:20 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
5:27 religion is that individuals adopt a kind of messianic you know story where they are themselves the messiah something that is rejected by
5:36 most traditional religions there's a lot of pressure to switch over to renewables is that a reasonable
5:46 solution for our energy needs we're forcing taxpayers and ratepayers to subsidize for example renewable energy meaning
5:54 wind and solar instead of traditional fuels well here's the truth to power the state of texas with just
6:02 wind or solar you would need an area five times the size of harris county which is houston and the surrounding
6:09 suburbs if you include the wind farms the solar farms and the transmission lines that's not going to happen there's a
6:17 projection that there's a 10x 20x demand for additional rare earth minerals to meet the kind of
6:27 expectations for batteries and storage that many of the renewable strategies actually are are backstopped by in places like the us
6:37 we've actually decided we don't want to do that kind of mining because it's it's not environmentally responsible etc
6:46 and and they actually be able to do the mining deliver it and have it be reliable and sustainable
6:55 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
7:06 so wind and solar energy seem impractical but certainly recycling has to be good right most of us feel good about
7:14 recycling we think we're saving the planet keeping our oceans clean or patching up that hole in the ozone layer
7:20 we especially feel good thinking that we're helping poorer countries around the world we feel righteous about it like we're
7:26 doing our duty to our fellow man we are absolving ourselves of our privilege but does recycling actually do good john tierney
7:34 contributing editor at city journal recently asked that simple yet provocative question the results are not what you'd expect
7:43 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
7:52 but what actually happens when you toss your plastic straw and cup in the blue bin first thousands of trucks made with all
7:59 sorts of environmentally unfriendly parts spewing all sorts of carbon into the air drive to collect your recyclables
8:06 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
8:13 are too difficult to sort through and the reuse of plastics isn't cost effective so the unrecycled recyclables some of
8:20 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
8:29 and rerouted it to poor east asian countries like vietnam thailand malaysia and indonesia the trouble is
8:37 those countries are even less equipped to deal with our allegedly recyclable trash than china so some of it becomes littered and leaks
8:44 into the natural environment but what happens to most of it is even worse the plastics pile up at illegal trash
8:51 dumps or spew harmful toxins into the air when they're burned in backyard furnaces you'll never have to smell the burning
8:58 garbage in your first world american neighborhood but the east asians living near these dumps and recycling operations
9:04 know all too well how they spoil the air and rivers so why are we mandating costly and environmentally damaging recycling
9:12 operations when both the environment and our wallets would be better off if we set the trash ablaze ourselves
9:19 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
9:26 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
9:34 plastic straight into the trash [Music] we have the facilities right here at home to dispose of our waste properly
9:43 it seems like they have us caught in this daily ritual just to keep us engaged does any good come from these practices
9:49 well they certainly make sacrifices and in this case the sacrifices can often be merely symbolic
9:58 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
10:05 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
10:12 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
10:19 the conscience of the person who's participating more than it has a realistic effect on the world around them could you talk
10:26 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
10:34 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
10:42 common local phenomenon so the question is what is our ability to master climate what is our ability to take the
10:49 different kinds of changes and dangers and climate and deal with it and basically 200 years ago
10:55 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
11:02 gods because climate is so volatile and so dangerous to people and basically what happens is once you
11:08 have machine power then you have the ability to produce defenses against climate so you can do things like
11:14 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
11:21 deal with climate and your productive ability depends on your ability to use machines which depends on low cost
11:27 i grew up about 40 miles west of pittsburgh in a little steel town called steubenville ohio i would come through the liberty tunnel
11:35 coming into downtown pittsburgh and i couldn't see across to the other side of the river absolutely covered with smoke and
11:44 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
11:54 a push in terms of how do we make this industry more sustainable that touched everything in the industry
12:05 not just the environmental footprint but sustainability being defined in the steel industry is how do i continue to source the
12:14 materials that i'm going to use what kind of technology am i using and much of the new technology that was employed
12:22 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
12:33 it all it wasn't that the steel industry as it was originally defined was moved somewhere
12:40 else it was a transformation of that industry using new technologies using environmentally responsible and
12:49 advanced technologies that also produced better products that were competitively priced and and competitive in a global marketplace
13:00 and that's really what changed the industry in many ways is looking at what sustainability really means
13:10 nowhere in the united nations in a governmental panel on climate change or in any of the serious scientific literature are
13:16 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
13:24 disasters or diseases or any of the other things that are that many people expect to get worse under climate change
13:31 when some of these children who are here are my age here's what it's going to be
13:44 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
13:54 shows is there's just a fundamental failure of education and communication that instead of telling people what
14:01 scientists actually think are telling them a completely exaggerated and distorted version of it in order to scare them
14:08 honestly i feel that man is kind of a parasite on earth well i think industrialization has been a parasite i think capitalism
14:17 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
14:26 like we're killing it we truly are and we should be nurturing it and worshiping it and taking care of it
14:33 but we're not there are stories literally every few months showing that representations made about
14:39 catastrophic climate change haven't come true and they're ignored people have heard so much about climate change but they don't
14:44 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
14:50 natural disasters has declined over 90 percent over the last 100 years they've declined over 80 percent over the last 40 years
14:57 we should be celebrating this fact it's mostly occurred because our infrastructure is more hardened we're more prepared for natural
15:05 disasters we have better weather forecasting systems so when a hurricane comes to whether it's florida or haiti or bangladesh
15:12 we can prepare for we can get ourselves into safe environments so that's great news uh damage to property has increased
15:21 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
15:26 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
15:34 scenario in the intergovernmental panel on climate change which oversees all the science of this
15:39 for that trend to reverse itself in other words it's not to say it's impossible but there's no science suggesting that
15:45 climate change is going to become so bad that the number of deaths from natural disasters stops going down and starts going back
15:52 up again whatever the scientists say i'm going to go with people that are actually in that
16:00 world they tell me if you were to boil it all down what are those behind this movement really after
16:06 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
16:15 none so it necessarily requires that there be jurisdiction exerted around the entire globe and that everyone be on board it also requires
16:25 there be fewer of us if you really get down to the bottom line of what they're after they want fewer
16:32 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
16:40 themselves and their offspring the leading thinkers are very explicitly anti-human so they say something like human beings are a cancer
16:48 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
16:55 consider human beings an impediment i mean you have to remember that the elite the whether the people that run the new york
17:01 times the people that you know the democratic politicians the scientists at the universities the well-educated activists the vast
17:08 majority of them are very secular people they really don't have a traditional religion and so they have constructed
17:16 this new religion doomsday cultists have predicted the imminent end of the world for all of recorded history they have always been wrong
17:26 just as wrong as the environmental alarmists are today [Music]
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