Video here, transcript at the end:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKIOSnKX96E
https://mishtalk.com/economics/the-best-video-on-climate-change-that-you-will-ever-see
The Best Video On Climate Change That You Will Ever See
This is an absolutely brilliant speech by British satirist, Konstantine Kisin.
Is Kisin's Video For You?
If you think that you, president Biden, Gretta, Al Gore, or anyone in government will do anything that matters about climate change, the video is for you.
If you think that you, president Biden, Gretta, Al Gore, or anyone in government will not do anything that matters about climate change, the video is also for you.
It's less than seven minutes long. Play it.
Play the video then think about the lead chart and the path of China and India while noting the whole continent of Africa is not even on the scale.
By the way, the population of India will soon to surpass China.
Importantly, and on a personal level, the single best thing you can do for the environment is to not have kids.
Climate Deniers
I have been accused of being a climate denier. Mercy. Actually, I am a climate realist.
Climate change is real and constant and has been ever since the earth formed.
The debate is over how much is manmade and even more importantly, what to do about it, whether it's manmade or not.
Regarding what percentage is manmade, I don't know, nor does anyone else. But let's say you disagree.
Then OK, I agree with you. Let's assume recent climate change is 100% manmade. So what do we do about it?
That has been my line of questioning for a long time. I just have never been able to express my line of thinking as clearly as Kisin in the above video.
A Big Green Mess in Germany With Coal a Stunning 31 Percent of Electricity
Assume there is a problem, then if there is a solution, it will not be the like of Gretta, AOC, Al Gore, president Biden, or the Green Party hypocrites who will fix it.
Look no further than the Big Green Mess in Germany for what happens when politicians are faced with the decision to heat homes cheaply or cut back on CO2.
The EU plans to tax other nations for not addressing climate change, while Germany bulldozes a town to increase the size of a coal mine. It's also lignite coal, the dirtiest kind.
Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, a Green who is Germany’s economy and climate minister, defended the agreement as “a good decision for climate protection” that fulfills many of the environmentalists’ demands and saves five other villages from demolition.
World's Largest Tax Scheme
For discussion of the EU's hypocritical carbon tax scheme, please see EU Imposes the World's Largest Carbon Tax Scheme.
Meanwhile, the US is marching down an idiotic path towards electric vehicle mandates with no plan on where to get the minerals for the batteries. Nor does president Biden have an reasonable plan for the infrastructure needed.
Fed Chair Warns President Biden "We will not be a climate policymaker"
Preposterous ideas have gotten so out of hand that Fed Chair Warns President Biden "We will not be a climate policymaker"
"Without explicit congressional legislation, it would be inappropriate for us to use our monetary policy or supervisory tools to promote a greener economy or to achieve other climate-based goals. We are not, and will not be, a climate policymaker," said Jerome Powell.
I am not one who often praises the Fed, but that paragraph deserves a standing ovation.
Constant Hype
The hype is constant and has been consistently wrong. In 2019 I noted Ocasio-Cortez Says World Will End in 12 Years: Here's What to Do About It
The world will still be here in 2050.
On October 29, 2022, I noted UN Seeks $4 to 6 Trillion Per Year to Address Climate
Yeah right. Politicians are going to give Africa, India, and third world countries trillions of dollars and tax the hell out of them if they don't comply.
The Hope of Fusion vs the Pomp of Politicians and Climate Activists
If there is a climate problem, science will find the answer, not politicians or activists.
For discussion, please see The Hope of Fusion vs the Pomp of Politicians and Climate Activists
Nonetheless, there's A Mad Rush to Build More EV Factories despite the fact we have no idea or plan to secure the minerals needed for the batteries.
And Germany has turned to bulldozing towns to produce more coal.
What a hoot.
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Transcript
you will not know this but I was
supposed to be the first non-student Speaker for the proposition I've now been the fourth which means that I now have to thank all the previous speakers for making my best points for me and I find that the reason the main reason now that I have left to be uh in support of the motion is that I am so tired of talking about work culture that's why it's gone too far more than anything else and I thanked the other speakers for making the points for me because it means I don't have to reiterate the point that no no free speech is not some right-wing reframing of whatever it's the foundation of Western Civilization upon this civilization is built and the enlightenment values that led to it I don't have to make the point that has been made by far better people in the past that the only way to deal with the problem of racism is to treat people on the content of their character and nothing else and the fact that woke culture seeks to overturn that is a new form of racism that we must all oppose it means also I will not use this opportunity to say I Told You So as someone who spent the last five years warning people in the west that if we continue to erode our culture if we continue to undermine our confidence in Western values that our enemies enemies like Vladimir Putin will seek to capitalize on it I will not make any of instead I'm not going to talk to those of you who already agree with me which I I'm not going to talk to you because I imagine after everything you've heard tonight you're going to vote for the proposition I'm going to confess I will take your vote for granted tonight I am the labor party and you are the red wall now I want to talk to those of you who and who are open to rational argument a small minority I accept because one of the tenets of workness is of course that your feelings matter more than the truth but I believe in you I believe there are those of you here who are work who are open to rational arguments so let me make one we are told that your generation cares more than any other about one issue in particular and that issue is climate change we're told that many of you suffer from you wish to save the planet and for tonight and tonight only I will join you I will join you in worshiping at the feet of Saint Greta of climate change let us all accept right here right now that we are living through a climate emergency and our stocks of polar bears are running extremely low I join you in this view I truly do now what are we to do about this huge what can we in Britain do we can only do one thing you know why this country is responsible for two percent of global carbon emissions which means that if Britain was to sink into the sea right now it would make absolutely no difference to the issue of climate change you know why because the future of the climate is going to be decided in Asia and in Latin America by poor people who couldn't give a [ __ ] it's going to be decided by poor people in Asia and Latin America who don't care about saving the planet you know why because they're poor I Come From Russia which is not a poor country it's a middle-income country 20 of households in Russia do not have an indoor toilet what they have is an outdoor toilet and I don't mean one of those nice poor to I don't even mean a Glastonbury portaloo I mean a wooden Shack with a hole in the ground the holes are collected fermented memory of the last 10 000 visits how many of you are going to go home tonight and say let's rip out our bathroom and erect a Siberian [ __ ] and if you're not why should they a hundred and twenty million people in China do not have enough food I don't mean that they don't get dessert I mean they suffer from malnutrition that means that their immune system is breaking down because they don't have you're not going to get them to stay imagine Yoshi Jinping the leader of when you were 10 years old there was a revolution a cultural revolution in your country and people came and they put your father in prison your mother had to denounce him your sister killed herself and you no longer enjoying the protection of your formerly powerful were sent to a village where you lived and here you are decades later you have of the bloody and greasy pole of Chinese politics to be the Undisputed supreme leader of the very Communist Party that destroyed your family and you know that the main thing you to survive and to stay in power is to that the people of China want prosperity where do you think climate change ranks on XI jinping's list of priorities a third of all children who live in extreme poverty in the world live in that means they are starving and dying of preventable disease now about 15 months ago my wife got pregnant not me because we're old school and for nine months we talked about what what he might do when he grows up we looked at baby scans and videos on YouTube about what the fetus looks like at nine months and 12 months and 20 months and eventually he was born and he is this cute little bundle of joy he's cuter than about eighty percent of that I had a choice either my son had a serious risk of starving or dying from a preventable disease in the next year or I could press a button he would bring his first girlfriend home you'd go to university and graduate and and then he'd get a job and get married and have children and become a man but all I have to do is press this button and for every day of my son's life a giant plume of CO2 is going to get released into the atmosphere now you're all very young and most of you are not parents let me tell you something there is not a parent in the world who would not smash that button so you are not going to get these people to stay poor you're not even going to get them to not want to be richer and so I put it to you ladies and gentlemen there is only one thing we can do in this country to stop climate change and that is to make scientific and technological breakthroughs that will create the clean energy that is not only clean but also cheap and the No thank you and the only I want everyone to get home on time today which and the only thing that wokeness has to offer in exchange is to brainwash Bright Young Minds like you to believe that you are victims to believe that you have no agency to believe that what you must do to improve the world is to complain is to protest is to throw soup on and we on this side of the house are not on this side of the house because we do not wish to improve the world we sit on this side of the house because we know that the way to improve the world is to work is to create it is to build and the problem with work culture is that it's trained too many young minds like yours to forget about that
