15 minute cities have been around for a long time, but are they actually a real thing? In this episode, my guest, Michelle Sterling from Friends of Science, talks about the history of 15 minute cities and why they are a good thing. We also talk about Astra Zeneca's CEO and his quest for net zero health care.
00:04:58.300If you look at the exponential roadmap that was issued in the fall of 2019, one of the things that these climate zealots wanted to do was to reduce personal mobility and traffic, transportation to 3%.
00:07:01.580Because in 2015, Ivo DeBoer, who was the executive chair of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, that's the political arm of the climate movement at the UN, he said that in order to meet Paris targets, we'll have to lock down the economy for two years.
00:07:25.800And so, this deadline 2020, which was initially written up for all the C40 cities.
00:07:33.300And remember, the cities of the world host about 70% of the world's population.
00:07:40.300So, if you can reduce the carbon footprint of every single urban dweller to 2.9 CO2e, then you have partially accomplished your goal of meeting Paris targets.
00:07:56.960And in fact, that's what former mayor of Edmonton, Don Iveson, said in a published report, and it's in the Lockdown Alberta Prosperity presentation.
00:08:08.220He said that cities are going to solve the climate problem.
00:08:13.080And, you know, talking about 15-minute cities, it's a new thing that people are talking about.
00:08:17.760But I think people are just becoming awake to what 15-minute cities are.
00:08:22.020They've been in the works, as you said, since, you know, 2019, maybe even sooner.
00:08:27.920They were written into the zoning code in Alberta back in 2020, or in Edmonton, I guess.
00:08:35.200Edmontonians are just becoming aware of this.
00:08:37.140And, you know, the excuse the mayor says, oh, it's just a zoning code to make it more convenient for people to live there.
00:08:44.400And I see it as, as I said before we started recording, you have to build the ant farm before you pour in the ants and then close the lid so that your ants can't escape.
00:08:55.000And that's what I think is happening here.
00:08:56.400You can't tell people you can't leave your neighborhood until you put everything you think they need in the neighborhood.
00:09:02.160And then it just becomes a bit of an open-air climate prison.
00:09:16.440Now, in places in Europe, you know, you have these very old cities, 2,000-year-old cities like Barcelona, London, England, Paris, where they were planned for foot traffic and maybe some wagons and horses.
00:09:31.820And especially in Europe, I think it was in around 2008, Europe incentivized diesel cars over conventional ice cars because they said, oh, well, there's less CO2 emissions from diesel cars, except that there's more nitrous oxides and smog soot from diesel cars.
00:09:53.460So they incentivized diesel cars to save the planet and unintentionally ended up with horrible air pollution.
00:10:03.000At times, Paris's air pollution is worse than that of Beijing because of this.
00:10:08.280So they did have a need to fix the air pollution issue.
00:10:12.060They started doing alternate days license plates for driving in the city.
00:10:17.220They came up with all kinds of incentives to try and keep people to stay home or take public transit.
00:10:23.080So they have a real issue there, but they also have extremely high density.
00:10:28.620We have a just transition or sorry, we have a 15-minute cities presentation also on our blog or on our website that I did for us,
00:10:37.600which talks about how Barcelona has a population density of something like 14,000 people per square kilometer.
00:10:46.820So that would be like all the population of Butasquan or Camrose or Brooks.
00:10:57.000So, yeah, it makes perfect sense in a context like that to try and create more green spaces for people to try and limit their need to travel by providing services as close as possible.
00:11:10.680But, you know, we have lots of space here.
00:11:13.360It's minus 40 or minus 19 or whatever it is.
00:11:16.760It's cold a lot of the time here, snowy and icy.
00:11:19.560So, you know, as an older boomer, even when I can walk to the store, if it's icy out, I'm not going to walk there.
00:11:27.860It doesn't matter if it's 15 minutes or half an hour.
00:11:30.360I'm just not going to go because, you know, people who are older and even young people, if you slip and fall on the ice, you're finished.
00:11:38.280So, you know, it's not applicable to Canadian cities for the most part.
00:11:47.700In one of your Friends of Science videos, I'm sure it was you, that one of the reasons the new world was settled was because people were trying to escape the overcrowding and population densities in Europe.
00:12:02.900And so what are we doing now, like a century later, replicating it?
00:13:28.680So, but yes, the whole point of coming here was to be free.
00:13:34.480And, you know, just going back to for a moment on the population density thing, the irony of Edmonton and Calgary, for instance, trying to create 15-minute cities where all your resources are in one place, the irony is found in a book by, what's his name?
00:13:53.400Josh O'Kane, he wrote a book called Sideways, which is about the Sidewalk Labs experiment of Google in Toronto.
00:14:02.220And they were planning to take the waterfront area, which I think was around 12 acres, and turn it into a smart city, right, where everything could be all in one place.
00:14:12.100And one of the obsessions, apparently, of Larry Page, who's one of the founders of Google, and Sergey Brin, they're obsessed with transportation.
00:14:21.640They don't want people driving individual cars.
00:14:24.080They want them using automated, you know, self-driving taxis, basically, that you can call up anytime you want.
00:14:32.100Anyway, with the, with this, this smart city, one thing that always pops up, and it's also in the Simpsons movie, is how to put a dome over it.
00:15:51.780What happens when they bring the robot dogs and the robot police, and when I try to leave, they want my digital ID, and I don't have permission, or my social credit score isn't good enough, or I don't have enough digital currency to take the bus downtown or call the auto-driving, self-driving taxi.
00:16:22.780I think a lot of people see the car as one of the great equalizers of humanity, where, you know, long-distance transportation was only available to the wealthy for a very long time.
00:16:33.460And then the advent of automobiles being affordable to normal people, to middle-class people, I think it was a great liberator for humanity.
00:16:46.460People could travel for leisure instead of just, you know, for emergencies.
00:16:51.300It became something that people did for fun that they never did before.
00:16:54.940And having the vehicle taken away from you and having that ability to travel taken away from you for nearly three years, I think the left has overplayed their hand here.
00:17:06.000Well, I think it was a grand experiment because, ironically, the Smart Cities project, which apparently Justin Trudeau had been planning with Eric Schmidt for some time in advance, you know, they went to great lengths at Waterfront to make sure it was an independent evaluation.
00:17:23.480And then when it was announced, Justin Trudeau said, yeah, well, Eric and I have been working on this for a long, long time.
00:17:37.180Because there was no need anymore because the entire world had gone into a smart city.
00:17:42.700The entire world became a smart city because they were observing.
00:17:46.500And we know that we were surveilled by Health Canada, by the armed forces and all kinds of people all over the world were surveilling everyone's habits and cell phones during lockdowns.
00:17:58.540And they probably drew on their experience of trying to design the smart city.
00:18:02.880And I now have forgotten what the question was that you had.
00:18:22.520You know, during World War II, my mom was a driver in England.
00:18:26.940And she often used to tell me how before the war, she would go with a neighbor who was a mechanic and he had to deliver cars all over England.
00:18:36.400And she would tell me how she thus traveled all over England.
00:18:39.380And at the time, I was thinking, okay, so what?
00:18:41.960And then it struck me when she was telling me about becoming a driver of one and three ton trucks that had no synchronized gear and no modern clutches.
00:18:53.340You know, they had, it was manual stick shift.
00:18:57.400As they say, if you can't find them, grind them with the gear.
00:19:01.020If you were a tiny little five foot two and a half woman like my mom was, why in heck would you ever want to do this?
00:19:08.200Well, thousands of women joined the Auxiliary Terrestrial Service so that they could learn to drive because they wanted that freedom.
00:19:17.080And after that, that freedom proliferated because people knew how to drive.
00:19:22.820They were all light duty mechanics like Princess Elizabeth.
00:19:27.060The late Queen Elizabeth was a light duty mechanic.
00:19:29.840She served over the fence from my mom at the Welsh Girls School.
00:19:34.440So, you know, this driving was the expression of freedom as was flying.
00:19:39.620You know, it, my uncle who was lost in the war, he, he wrote letters to my mom about how much he loved lying, how much he loved that freedom, you know, being up there above the clouds.
00:19:50.980And I think millions of people relate to that.
00:19:56.860I wanted to ask you about the just transition, which I think is anything but just.
00:20:04.200I mean, just transition into unemployment, I guess.
00:20:06.660But along with the just transition is this claim that it's okay if we phase out your job because we're going to transition you into all these sustainable jobs that don't exist, that have never materialized.
00:20:21.300We saw this play out in real time with the coal phase out here in Alberta, where they decided to close up the coal mines in towns that relied on coal for the local power plant.
00:20:32.400And the green jobs that were to replace those phase out jobs, they never materialized to the point where these towns are devastated.
00:20:41.100And sometimes people are underwater on their mortgages.
00:21:05.960So we recently did a video explainer on the so-called Sustainable Jobs Act, which there's terminology now to replace just transition.
00:21:15.940And again, you know, if you go back to how things are made, you find that things are only made with oil, gas and coal.
00:21:24.860So while in this sustainable jobs plan, they're claiming, oh, we're going to create a new market called, you know, critical minerals.
00:21:33.860And we could clean energy Canada, which is a tides make way offshoot, is claiming that, oh, the new market will be EV batteries and the critical mineral supply chain for them.
00:21:44.900And, well, as it turns out, what do you need to go mining?
00:22:10.160There's not enough time to create the mines to get a mine up and running takes at least 16 years.
00:22:17.680So unless there are already thousands of mines in Canada that are on the verge of approval, we won't be hitting any 2030 or 2050 targets.
00:22:27.980And like I said, you know, it's horribly devastating.
00:22:31.660If you've got a mine in a remote area, how do you think they get that stuff out of there?
00:22:36.160Well, you've got to clear a forest, build a road or a railway, maybe even a landing strip, depending on where you are and what you have to bring in.
00:22:45.080You have to truck in all kinds of cement.
00:22:47.160You've got to put up power lines or you've got to build on site a power generation unit.
00:23:00.160So, you know, these are just practical realities.
00:23:04.020So the whole sustainable jobs thing is another unicorn fantasy by the green movement.
00:23:10.720And unfortunately, the problem is we're being pushed into this stuff, we're spending lots of money on it, and we're going to get stuck halfway without sufficient energy to drive society, without enough money to complete some of these projects, and without enough energy, resources and infrastructure to go back to our present working state.
00:23:36.540You know, they're going to run us into the ground, like in Europe.
00:23:42.280Now, you've actually pointed out the problem with the push for green cars, because, you know, as you know, Canada has mandated that all new vehicle sales by, I think, 2035, they have to be net zero cars.
00:23:58.200But we don't have enough grid to charge these cars.
00:24:03.660So, they're going to force you to buy these cars, which don't work all that well in minus 19, which it is today.
00:24:10.700And they don't work all that well across vast distances, which is the case in Canada.
00:24:16.340So, we've got cold and vast distances.
00:24:19.120Combine those two, you have almost no range.
00:24:22.020And how are you going to charge them with a grid that doesn't have enough capacity?
00:24:39.120And so, you can put in a few that have a diesel generator hiding in the background.
00:24:43.540That's not really solving the problem, is it?
00:24:46.460But, in fact, Kent Zare, who's a professional engineer, did an analysis for us some years ago.
00:24:54.120And he found that we would have to build the equivalent of eight Site C dams because we need an additional 10,000 megawatts of power.
00:25:03.320And, subsequently, someone just wrote me a couple of weeks ago and told me that Site C is actually only putting out half its nameplate capacity.
00:25:12.540So, that would mean 16 to 19 Site C dam equivalents.
00:25:57.840So, again, I want to point out to people, these are sophisticated marketing schemes that are dressed up in green.
00:26:06.260So, if they can sell you an induction stove because they think that you think that you're saving the planet, good for them, you know.
00:26:13.320But look at everything through that eye of marketing and you'll start to see the whole climate movement in a completely different light.
00:26:20.140Well, and there's no pleasing these people also.
00:26:22.880I mean, Site C Dam, you would think, okay, these people should be, these people, the environmentalists, they should be in favor of this because it's hydroelectricity.
00:26:33.420But no, you have the likes of David Suzuki complaining about Site C Dam.
00:26:38.480Again, I go back to a video that you did where you noted that David Suzuki simultaneously is against Site C Dam, but also complained that there was nowhere to charge his electric vehicle as he went across the country.
00:26:51.480And he couldn't make the connection between the two.
00:27:34.700It's because of the NDP climate policy from 2015, where they accelerated coal phase out and they got rid of the most modern plants that we had.
00:27:45.420These are now being converted to natural gas.
00:27:48.280But in the interim, we're a thousand megawatts short from December 2014.
00:27:54.480We're a thousand megawatts short of dispatchable power today.
00:28:00.820That's a real risk for the province, for business, for hospitals.
00:28:05.020And now we have these crazy doctors of Cape trying to phase out natural gas.
00:28:12.300Well, Alberta runs on natural gas now.
00:28:14.780What are you going to run your hospital on?
00:28:16.800What are you going to make your PPEs from and your little mask and your little visor?
00:28:22.500You know, we have entered a time of societal madness where facts and evidence mean nothing anymore.
00:28:30.520Yeah. And, you know, you just said that Alberta runs on natural gas.
00:28:35.100I'm going to correct you there because it's not entirely true because when we are experiencing these grid shortfalls, we end up buying coal fired electricity from Wyoming and Montana.
00:28:48.040But while we phase out coal here, and as you say, you know, like we had, you know, almost to the point of rolling brownouts, we are the Saudi Arabia of coal.
00:29:02.560I think we have 800 years of clean burning coal under our feet.
00:29:05.800It leaches out of the ground all over the place.
00:29:29.000They're running at maximum capacity practically every day.
00:29:31.960And so that creates a stable baseline.
00:29:34.260You know, like people like Pembina Institute say, oh, there's no need for baseload power anymore because they don't understand how the power grid works.
00:29:43.920After all these years of being activists, they're busy thinking that, you know, wind and solar can provide.
00:29:50.340Well, there are many days in those grid alerts, you'll find that there was no wind and no solar.
00:29:55.260And when there's no wind, actually the wind turbines draw from the grid to keep from freezing up.
00:30:00.740So they're actually on the grid in winter, as well as being frequently useless.
00:30:08.460And again, you know, if they're a complementary system with a small penetration, fine.
00:30:15.980You know, sometimes they can be valuable.
00:30:17.940But what's happening now where the push is to go all wind and solar, it's an impossible equation.
00:30:24.220And it will only end in tears and Albertans will be stripped of their wealth.
00:30:29.180These 20 and 40 year PPAs that cities are signing.
00:30:33.880You know, they've got the cities signing these power purchase agreements for 20 and 40 years and renewables.
00:30:39.420These are going to bankrupt the cities and bankrupt the taxpayers.
00:30:56.800Or when a big snowstorm hits, as was the case in Texas a couple of years ago, when you only have green energy on the grid because it was incentivized in Texas.
00:31:04.200Again, Texas, same problem as Alberta.
00:31:06.660Lots of energy, but incentivized through the federal government in the United States to put up all these wind turbines.
00:31:13.820They get hit with a snowstorm and they've got no capacity on the grid.
00:31:17.720And people died in an energy rich state because they relied on green energy.
00:31:27.420And that could easily happen in Alberta.
00:31:29.260Yeah, I think to a greater extent, just because of the cold associated with our snow that they didn't have there, it frees pretty quick here.
00:31:37.940Now, I wanted to ask you something you just you touched on briefly about the push for net zero health care.
00:31:44.420And so we see it from these crazy activist doctors.
00:31:50.120But now we're seeing it from the people who got very, very rich on the lockdowns of COVID during the pandemic.
00:31:57.880Sort of now we see as the left says the intersection of two ideas where we've got climate change and pharmaceuticals coming together.
00:32:07.100And finally, we can also save a lot of carbon because people don't know, but the health care services actually produce 4% of carbon emissions in the world.
00:32:31.520So going to a hospital is bad for you, bad for your health, but you cost money.
00:32:34.600And also you generate a lot of carbon.
00:32:37.420So if we can keep people out of the hospital and cure them quickly, we will really affect people, but also countries and societies in a big way.
00:32:48.480About the net zero health care, this is really a thing.
00:32:53.060And it's shocking and ugly to see the CEO of AstraZeneca talking about it.
00:32:58.120Because, of course, if you're running a factory producing vaccines, you're probably using a lot of energy and it's not coming from oil, gas and coal.
00:33:08.820And he's talking about how expensive it is to go to a hospital.
00:33:12.900And if you have a vaccine, then you won't have to go.
00:33:14.900Well, that's absurd because people go to hospitals for many other things, broken limbs, car accidents, accidents around the house, blood pressure, whatever.
00:33:25.640Thousands of different ailments are treated at hospitals.
00:33:28.320So these people are now thinking that, well, the best hospital, the greenest hospital is the one you don't build.
00:33:36.980This is a direct quote from, I think it's called Greener Healthcare.
00:33:46.940There's also a paper in the British Medical Journal called Net Zero Health Care, where the proponents, two of whom are from Canada, from the CAPE organization, are saying that, you know, because the world pivoted so quickly during COVID lockdowns, it should be easy to cut health care emissions in half by 2030.
00:34:13.580So they're not talking about turning off a light switch.
00:34:17.020They're talking about actively reducing care.
00:34:21.800And the reason I say that, we have examples of that, certainly in the UK, where elderly people were treated with midazolam and morphine when it was not necessarily in their best interest and they died of it.
00:34:39.000And some of the hospitals there are being questioned under caution now.
00:34:42.400And in Canada, the proliferation of the MAID program, because if you have people voluntarily die, then you don't have to treat them in hospital.
00:34:54.420So it's one way to solve the waiting list of the medical services in Canada and, you know, and appear to be a compassionate provider who wants to give you dignity.
00:35:10.740And in some cases, it is true that people would choose that path.
00:35:15.400But now that they're planning to expand it to mental health care, you know, you are the carbon that they're trying to reduce.
00:35:27.020Yeah, especially when we've seen young people infected with this climate change anxiety.
00:35:33.700Young people are saying that they're depressed, that they worry about the end of the world, thanks to the constant inundation of climate doomsday propaganda.
00:35:49.280I think it was on the steps of the Supreme Court in the United States.
00:35:52.640A grown man, by the way, did this to protest climate change.
00:35:57.920And now, as you rightly point out, Canada is changing the protocols around the MAID program to extend it to include people who are mentally ill.
00:36:11.040And there's another report by that same consulting firm, Aroop, the one that did the deadline 2020 for the cities.
00:36:18.080And it talks about how the carbon footprint of medical services in different countries around the world and Canada is in the top 10 of a huge carbon footprint.
00:36:29.580Well, yeah, because we're in a really vast, cold country.
00:36:50.520And everybody can get to it in a hop, skip, and a jump.
00:36:53.900So, of course, that also cuts a lot of the cost of providing service.
00:36:59.840Whereas here, you know, we have a diverse number of specialists.
00:37:03.360They're very spread out across the country.
00:37:05.780And they're not concentrated in one place where, you know, if you need two or three different kinds of treatments, you can't go to all of them in the same place.
00:37:14.400Because we're just too small a population and too big a country.
00:37:18.820And health care is just such a very diverse set of needs for people that it's very difficult to solve them all in one place.
00:37:29.940But, of course, that brings me to the next point where I believe that deepfake doctors and AI are the next solution.
00:37:38.480So, when they say, oh, well, you're going to have health services within your 15-minute city.
00:37:55.540But that, you know, we can't create that everywhere because there's not enough doctors.
00:38:00.060So, they're going to create these little pods.
00:38:02.400And there's an example in the lockdown video that I did for Alberta Prosperity.
00:38:07.420An example from France where they have like a little medical pod with a bed and all kinds of instruments.
00:38:14.640The patient goes in, sits down, and on the screen, there's a doctor telezooming in from somewhere.
00:38:22.380And as you use these different things to investigate yourself, the doctor and AI read the information and resolve whatever issues you may have and provide a prescription or whatever.
00:38:36.160So, in one sense, this could be helpful.
00:38:49.280Because, you know, Net Zero 2030 and Net Zero 2050 just happen to coincide with when all the boomers enter retirement years and when all of the boomers die.
00:39:01.700And this is going to be a huge burden on society in terms of health care and in terms of pension draw and in terms of retiring workers and in terms of loss of skills in the community because the boomers will be out of the workforce for the most part.
00:39:19.880So, you know, I believe that there is a depopulation agenda in process, unfortunately, and, you know, on climate change, right?
00:40:21.460Well, Peter Zahans is a demographer, geographer.
00:40:25.440So, this is the book that Peter Zahans talks about how demographics worldwide are collapsing and the implications of that.
00:40:34.200And this one is by Dr. Aaron Cariotti in the U.S.
00:40:41.080And he's talking about the impending biomedical security state.
00:40:46.000So, you know, the concerns about the 15-minute city are also correlated to digital ID, digital currency, the fourth industrial revolution by our friend Klaus Schwab.
00:40:59.500So, you know, which is really lockdowns opened the door for that because they destroyed a lot of the conventional systems.
00:41:07.740And now to rebuild, these solutions, these biotechnical solutions will be offered.
00:41:13.520And I think the people who want to do these things to us have quickly identified who would be compliant and how quickly society can be compliant with these things.
00:41:23.400Now, I wanted to, before I take up almost your entire morning, I wanted to ask you or talk to you about something that is not climate change related, but also something that you work on in the pursuit of truth.
00:41:37.280And that is the residential school issue.
00:41:41.580And you said to me, I'd like to talk about the statements of NDP former leader Thomas Mulcair, but also NDP MP Leah Gazan, I think is how you say her name.
00:41:57.220Yeah, well, recently, in October of last year, the entire House of Commons voted to recognize the residential schools as a genocide, which is completely untrue.
00:42:10.120Not even the Truth and Reconciliation Committee ever came to that conclusion.
00:42:15.260They concluded that it might be termed a cultural genocide, but that's quite different than actively trying to murder thousands of people, which is what genocide is really all about.
00:42:25.200So, Thomas Mulcair recently came out saluting Leah Gazan, saying that her motion now to have anyone who questions the residential schools as genocide treated as a hate speech denier, equivalent to a Holocaust denier.
00:42:45.880And so, he said that in his article, he said things like that, you know, anyone who's seen the reports knows that these schools were killing people and that they were designed to destroy people's lives.
00:43:00.760And this is also not supported by the evidence.
00:43:04.660Now, what's interesting is that it turns out that Mulcair has a thesis called the Pinocchio Syndrome, where, and this was written about in a book published in Quebec, and I have a reference to a Le Divoire story on it, where he feels that you can lie to the media because they probably aren't going to check you.
00:43:24.220And I would say that this is the case, and I would say that this is the case, and it does a true disservice to all the people involved, including those who were harmed in residential schools.
00:43:36.800Because we now have set up kind of an adversary situation in society that should not exist.
00:43:46.280If you actually read the history of residential schools, if you read the work of Robert Carney, who is an eminent Canadian historian, he's also the father of Mark Carney, the former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor.
00:44:02.840He was a residential school administrator.
00:44:05.120He also wrote many deep and thoughtful articles about residential schools, acknowledging the problems with them, but also pointing out the value of them.
00:44:18.120And I think it does a disservice to all the people who served there in that time, when the residential school, in many cases, was the local social service net.
00:44:28.320They took in all kinds of people, the sick, the lame, you know, they really did their Christian duty to support the local community.
00:44:37.080And so, yes, are there graves at some of these places?
00:45:11.180So, this is how, you know, when you go on Ancestry.com, this is how you find out your ancestors, because of all these church records.
00:45:19.320Because until very recently, it was the church that kept all these records.
00:45:24.720So, you know, it's really a blood libel that Thomas Mulcair has thrown upon all Canadians in claiming, making these outrageous claims that he did in his recent CTV article.
00:45:38.100And for Leah Gazan to claim that people should not be allowed to question genocide at residential schools.
00:45:47.860Well, how did Senator Gladstone survive that school and become a senator?
00:45:53.900Have you read any of Thompson Highway's work, where he talks about how this gave him the leg up that he needed?
00:46:01.200You know, these stories are swept aside because of the tragic stories that are the only ones that capture the headlines.
00:46:09.720So, it's really, it's a terrible thing.
00:46:13.340And obviously, we need to have freedom of speech.
00:46:16.840We need to be able to question everything and to do so in a scholarly manner with evidence.
00:46:24.160When you take away people's freedom of speech, what happens is, according to Amartya Sen, who is a very well-respected economist in the world and scholar,
00:46:37.200what happens is the society tends to collapse and you end up with people dying of famine.
00:46:43.380So, you know, this is a very serious issue trying to limit speech in Canada.
00:46:53.040And, I mean, going back to what we were talking about with my mom driving in World War II,
00:46:58.840like, 12 of my Jewish relatives were murdered in Poland.
00:47:03.220And my uncle was lost in a night raid over Essen, trying to stop the World War II and the Holocaust that was going on.
00:47:24.780My other uncle, who landed at Dieppe and was wounded there, was fighting for freedom.
00:47:29.740And these freedoms are gradually being taken away by people who are very left-wing, ill-informed on the historical events and people who are climate zealots.
00:47:47.380You know, and as I've told you before, ultimately, Deutsche Bank would like to have an eco-dictatorship.
00:47:53.740And I think all these things are intertwined, ultimately.
00:48:02.540It's part of a broader issue of making questioning the official narrative illegal or cancelling you if you question the official narrative.
00:48:11.920And even if the left is right on all of these issues, let's say they're 100% right on residential schools.
00:48:18.720Let's say they're 100% right on climate change.
00:48:21.620Let's say they're 100% right on COVID.
00:48:24.120It should never be illegal to be wrong.
00:48:31.760And, you know, society has progressed through persistent questioning of the so-called consensus.
00:48:37.780This is part of a statement from the National Academy's press on being a scientist, responsible conduct in research.
00:48:47.900And the statement is that, you know, it's hard-nosed skepticism and persistent questioning against the consensus that has actually made society progress.
00:49:00.460And you can see that especially in medical science where, you know, for many years, people used to have their stomachs removed if they had ulcers because it was believed that there was some weird thing going on.
00:49:15.700And it was only this one doctor who thought, you know, that's funny.
00:50:52.820Michelle, tell us how people can find the work of Friends of Science and more importantly, support the work of Friends of Science, because you guys are just this little tiny mom and pop shop operation.