John Bolton - September 10, 2026


The Monsters of CC - The Damage They Have Done


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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. It is Thursday, September the 10th, 7.06 AM. I hope
00:00:09.100 you're having a great Thursday. Thank you very much for being here. I do appreciate it. And I
00:00:13.780 want to start off this video by saying, would you please give it a thumbs up right now? YouTube does
00:00:18.780 not like me talking about this and they will throttle this video. So a thumbs up will definitely
00:00:24.440 help. Thank you very much. I have to say that this issue I'm talking about today,
00:00:30.800 it bothers me in a number of different ways, from a local standpoint and from a global standpoint
00:00:37.200 as well. I've called this video the monsters of climate change. I'm not going to shy away
00:00:41.880 from saying those words. That has triggered the YouTube algorithm. Again, hit thumbs up on this.
00:00:47.280 I'm not going to shy away from this today, but this bothers me. The climate cultists,
00:00:52.960 the monsters of climate change really bother me. And it bothers me from a local issue because
00:00:59.400 here in Alberta, where I live, we've lost $200 billion in investment in oil and gas in our
00:01:04.920 natural resources because of the climate cult that has been running this country for many years,
00:01:09.940 led up right now by one of the biggest worldwide climate cultists, Mark Carney.
00:01:15.000 And that really bothers me. I've said before, we could have roads paved in gold if Alberta
00:01:20.020 could get its natural resources out of the ground. But this is even worse than that.
00:01:24.380 And this really, really points out how much of a monstrous thing this ideology and this cult has
00:01:30.880 been over the last 30 years or so, going back to even before Al Gore with his movie An Inconvenient
00:01:38.740 Truth. The amount of money that has been spent on this could have done amazing things and saved
00:01:44.620 millions and billions of lives, yet we have spent trillions of dollars trying to change
00:01:50.740 the climate, thus trying to change the weather. We've got this article here from the Patriot
00:01:57.240 Post, How to Waste $9 Trillion to Not Save the Planet, from Stephen Moore. Just a bit
00:02:05.980 of this article, link in the description. The world has spent $9 trillion to combat
00:02:10.960 climate change since 2020. That is a World War II-type number. Except we won World War II,
00:02:17.320 but now even the left admits that this torrent of money has accomplished nothing. According to ESG
00:02:23.880 Today, citing a 2026 United Nations report, the multinational goal to limit global temperature
00:02:29.700 increase to 1.5 Celsius, identified as the threshold to avoid the most significant impacts
00:02:35.240 of climate change is now out of reach. The best case scenario is now at 1.8 degrees Celsius. In
00:02:41.600 other words, we're doomed. Well, not necessarily. According to the UN, Climate Policy Initiative
00:02:48.080 estimates that an average of $7.8 trillion US a year will be needed through 2030. To stay on
00:02:57.280 track regarding climate mitigation, the price of poker or saving the planet has just tripled.
00:03:03.580 Yet even if we spend that money, temperatures will continue to rise.
00:03:07.900 Wouldn't it be smarter and cheaper to just get every household in the world air conditioning?
00:03:12.640 That may seem cavalier, but it would reduce the misery of any higher temperatures.
00:03:17.760 But the UN is against air conditioning because it says it causes climate change.
00:03:22.700 These people would be against electricity if we didn't already have it.
00:03:26.340 But please realize that the solution they are peddling is to make everyone poorer by installing a Stalinistic government that hangs out in your kitchen, in your bedroom, regulating everything you do.
00:03:38.600 I will take my chances with a warming planet rather than turn over more trillions of dollars in power to fools like these.
00:03:46.320 Now there is another estimate here. This is from 2004 to 2024. And it says we've now spent 14 plus
00:03:55.860 trillion dollars, a hundred times what we spend on avoiding hunger in the world. Just think how
00:04:01.540 that money would help millions, if not billions of people around the world. And we're going to
00:04:06.080 look at some of those things right now and how we could make their lives better, safer, and actually
00:04:11.780 drag them out of the poverty that they're in. So I went to chat GPT, and I asked a bunch of
00:04:17.700 questions. And let's go through some of them right now. How many people in the world don't have
00:04:23.440 access to adequate sanitation? As of 2024, about 3.4 billion people, roughly two in five people
00:04:31.680 worldwide, lack safely managed sanitation. The effects of inadequate sanitation? Disease. Child
00:04:38.620 deaths, 1 million diarrheal deaths annually, loss of education and productivity, billions of people
00:04:45.600 still lack the basic infrastructure to safely dispose of human waste, making sanitation one
00:04:51.220 of the world's major and highly preventable public health problems. Yet we spend $9 trillion over the
00:04:58.900 last, say, five years to try to change the climate and the weather and have accomplished absolutely
00:05:04.780 nothing. How many people in the world don't have access to adequate education? Globally,
00:05:09.920 about 273 million children and young people were out of school in 2024. Roughly one in six
00:05:17.240 of school-aged children and youth. The effects of inadequate education, poverty, poor health,
00:05:23.780 child mortality, inequality, child exploitation, literacy. About 754 million adults remained
00:05:31.900 illiterate in 2024, with women making up 63% of them. How about healthcare? How many people in
00:05:40.040 the world don't have access to adequate healthcare? About 4.6 billion people, roughly half of the
00:05:47.460 world's population. The effects of inadequate healthcare, preventable deaths, higher child
00:05:53.180 and maternal mortality, untreated disease, financial hardship, lower productivity, shorter
00:05:59.920 lives and poorer quality of life. Nearly one in two people worldwide do not have reliable access
00:06:06.060 to the essential health care they need, making health care access one of the world's largest
00:06:11.420 preventable development and public health challenges. Yet we spend $9 billion over the
00:06:18.100 last five or so years to try to change the weather and the climate, and we have accomplished nothing.
00:06:23.320 How many people in the world suffer from malnutrition? About 733 million people worldwide
00:06:30.640 faced hunger in 2023, meaning they regularly did not have enough food to meet their dietary needs.
00:06:37.520 More than 700 million people worldwide go hungry because they don't have enough food,
00:06:42.600 while billions face some level of food insecurity that we're spending. We're spending trillions of
00:06:48.020 to try to change the weather. Water. How many people in the world don't have access to a safe
00:06:54.560 water supply? About 2.1 billion people, roughly one in four people worldwide, do not have access
00:07:02.340 to safely managed drinking water at home. Of these, 696 million lack even a basic drinking
00:07:09.580 water service and why it matters. Cholera, dysentery, typhoid, hepatitis A, and other
00:07:15.960 diseases, hundreds of thousands of child deaths from diarrheal disease each year, malnutrition
00:07:22.440 and impaired child development. Clean, reliable drinking water is one of the most fundamental
00:07:27.740 public health protections. Where it is lacking, preventable disease and death rise dramatically,
00:07:33.720 but we're spending trillions to try to change the climate and the weather and accomplishing
00:07:38.460 nothing. How many people in the world don't have access to reliable baseload energy?
00:07:45.060 How would it benefit them if they did?
00:07:47.640 Around 660 million people worldwide lack access to electricity,
00:07:53.380 while hundreds of millions more have electricity that is unreliable or frequently interrupted.
00:07:59.500 Reliable 24-7 power wood.
00:08:02.240 Improve health care.
00:08:03.440 Power clean water pumps.
00:08:04.980 Improve education.
00:08:06.160 Enable irrigation, refrigeration, and fruit processing.
00:08:09.620 Support businesses.
00:08:10.760 Expand the internet.
00:08:11.880 Raise productivity and living standards.
00:08:14.200 Reliable electricity is a foundation for economic development, better health, clean water, and higher living standards.
00:08:21.180 Yet, we spend trillions upon trillions of dollars to try to change the weather and the climate.
00:08:27.920 The people who push this climate cultism are monsters.
00:08:32.580 All of these people, millions if not billions of people, could have been helped
00:08:36.440 if we can only get these people the help they really need and the money they need to change their lives significantly.
00:08:43.780 Now, what do all of these things we've just talked about have in common?
00:08:48.060 Sanitation, education, health care, malnutrition, water, energy.
00:08:54.300 The thing they have in common is poverty.
00:08:56.880 Here is Bjorn Lomborg, who is the president of the Copenhagen Consensus on PragerU.
00:09:02.420 If you want a better world for the environment, cleaner air and water, more forests,
00:09:08.200 encourage the whole world to break free of poverty.
00:09:12.460 And if you want a world better for people, less disease, hunger, and better education,
00:09:17.960 again, encourage the whole world to break free of poverty.
00:09:22.220 This requires much more energy, much of it, from fossil fuels.
00:09:27.120 It's easy in the rich world to think the poor just need a solar panel.
00:09:31.740 But even green Germany gets 79% of its energy from fossil fuels.
00:09:37.940 The average German uses 200 times as much fossil fuel energy
00:09:41.640 as the average person in the poor Democratic Republic of Congo.
00:09:46.240 Africans want to live like Germans do.
00:09:48.960 Of the money dedicated to help poor nations,
00:09:51.620 the World Bank and similar organizations
00:09:53.440 now tragically waste almost half on financing climate projects.
00:09:58.660 We can do so much better.
00:10:00.640 We can do so much better.
00:10:02.960 Think of all the lives we could change, all the lives we could save.
00:10:06.280 But will we do better? Well, not if we keep listening to these people. Do you listen to
00:10:13.380 these people? Do you believe these people? Do you follow these people? Do you support
00:10:21.320 the monsters of climate change? Well, then, what does that make you?
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