Climate change has changed names so many times. Not too long ago is was called Global warming.. its a hoax. iTS CALLED SEASONS. they are trying to bring more taxation on the people.NO. YOU CANT TAX THE PEOPLE FOR BREATHING. NOT NEVER
The reason we're outside the home office it's because we are worried about the law and order the fragility of the systems to climate shocks
Pause to understand, how'd you get here? Your car picked me up your new car. Okay. We got TV. Oh, I
Think can you can you tell me that's alright
Have you got tbo because a gang piece will help you talking about the room. I'm talking about answer my questions
I'd like to invite you
With respect answer my question. Do you have a TV at home? I don't think that's relevant your kids. Use iPads are computer
Service not relevant to the planet. Do you have air conditioning? Do they have any less schools Pierce? You want your kids in school?
You're not your child. You see the problem with all this you go on about my kids can't get out of begs
They're also terrible more surprise a terrified because your mum's telling them every day the what plan is about to it
And yeah, I bet your own carbon footprint on all the stuff. I just mentioned is terrible
It's it so why don't you give up these notes about my give up your television?
It's not your air conditioning walk your kids to school get a bite to miss Julia
Why don't you practice what you preach and I respond to that. Yes
It's really not about our individual carbon footprints didn't the systems wide issue?
We face an existential threat life as we know it is on the line
We have 12 short years to change everything or it's game over
this is the terrifying scenario that's used by many leading politicians to justify a green new deal an
unprecedented increase in government power focused on the energy industry the
Core idea of a green new deal is that government should rapidly prohibit the use of fossil fuel energy and impose
100% renewable energy mostly solar and wind
This may sound appealing but consider what it would entail
Today 80% of the energy Americans used to heat their homes farm their land run their factories and drive their cars
comes from fossil fuels coal oil and natural gas
Only 3.4 percent comes from solar and wind
despite decades of government subsidies and mandates to encourage their use
the reason we don't use much sunlight and wind as energy is that they are
Unreliable fuels that only work when the Sun shines and the wind blows
That's why no town city or country has ever come close to 100% or even 50%
solar and wind and
Yet green New Deal proponents say they can do the impossible
If only we give the government control of the energy industry and control of major users of energy such as the transportation industry
manufacturing and agriculture
All of this is justified by the need to do something about the existential threat of rising co2 levels
We're told on a daily basis that prestigious organizations like the United Nations have predicted mass
destruction and death if we don't get off fossil fuels
what we're not told is that such predictions have a decade's long track record of getting it wrong and by wrong, I mean
Completely missing the dartboard wrong the public
Needs to be told the truth
for example in 1989 The Associated Press reported a United Nations prediction that
Entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed
By the year 2000 we're now two decades past 2000
We're not missing any nations and human beings are living longer healthier and wealthier lives than ever before
But aren't things bound to get worse
Haven't scientists established that co2 is a greenhouse gas
With a warming influence on the planet. Yes, but that's only a small part of the big picture
Although co2 causes some warming it's much less significant than we've been told
Since we started using significant amounts of fossil fuels in the middle of the nineteenth century. We've increased the percentage of co2 in the atmosphere
from 0.03 percent to 0.04 percent
which correlates with an average temperature increase of about two degrees Fahrenheit it also correlates with
Significant global greening because co2 is plant food. All of this is far from
Unprecedented territory for our planet which has existed with at least 10 times
Today's co2 levels and a 25 degree warmer average temperature
what is truly unprecedented though is how safe we are from climate the International disaster database a
Nonpartisan organization that tracks deaths from climate related causes such as extreme heat floods storms and droughts
Shows that such deaths have been plummeting as co2 emissions have been rising
How is this possible because of the fossil fuel energy that emitted the co2?
Which has empowered us to climate proof our environment with heating air conditioning
sturdy buildings mass irrigation and weather warning systems
Fossil fuel energy has not taken a naturally safe climate and made it. Unnaturally dangerous
It's taken our naturally dangerous climate and made it unnaturally safe
Fossil fuels are not an existential threat
They're an existential resource because they increase something much more important than the level of co2 in the atmosphere
the level of human empowerment
increased life expectancy
income health leisure time and education are all tightly linked to increased access to
fossil fuels
Does this mean that we shouldn't look for lower carbon energy alternatives?
Of course not but the alternatives should lead us toward more abundant more reliable power not less
The most promising form of alternative energy is not unreliable solar and wind
but reliable carbon free nuclear energy
Sweden gets 40% of its electricity from nuclear
France over
70% while nuclear energy is smeared as unsafe
it has actually been demonstrated by study after study to be the safest form of energy ever created and
Yet green New Deal proponents who say that we have 12 years to save the planet from rising co2 levels
vigorously oppose nuclear
addition to all fossil fuel use by opposing every affordable abundant reliable form of energy
The green New Deal won't protect us from an existential threat. It is an existential threat
I'm Alex Epstein author of the moral case for fossil fuels for Prager University