Juno News - August 17, 2020


A pause in climate alarmism


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3 minutes

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Word count

701

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42

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In this episode, I talk about why we don't need to be so obsessed with climate change alarmism right now, and why we should be grateful that it's not as prevalent as it is right now. I also talk about the impact of the economic shutdown and how it might be a wake-up call for climate activists.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Most of these big changes we've seen to our daily lives and to our politics because of
00:00:09.440 the pandemic, I could do without, and I'm sure you feel the same. But there is one change that
00:00:14.120 I'm quite happy about. Do you notice we're not hearing all that much about climate alarmism
00:00:18.960 right now? The non-stop, 24-7, reporting, tearing out of hair, anger, irate postings,
00:00:25.920 demands that extreme imminent action must happen at all times. It was kind of maddening. It was kind
00:00:31.980 of exhausting. And for a large part, it's been put on hold. And isn't that refreshing? It's great.
00:00:38.340 Let's hope it stays this way. Probably not. But there are a number of reasons for this. We've
00:00:42.900 seen reports that tell us that emissions have obviously dropped down because planes aren't up
00:00:47.100 in the air. A lot of the economy has ground to a halt. There's been different reports about it
00:00:51.820 over the past few months discussing the exact percentage that has gone down. And climate
00:00:56.180 alarmists, they're not too sure what to do about this because they are already saying behind the
00:01:00.360 scenes, well, it's not enough. We need more and so forth. But I think there's no political capital
00:01:05.260 for that right now. No social capital for people to hear all of that complaining. Elizabeth May, 1.00
00:01:10.740 she actually originally said a few months ago that this stuff we're seeing right now, the economic
00:01:15.400 shutdown, and I don't mean now as in July and August when everything was shut down, she actually
00:01:20.300 gave a press release saying, we got to keep things like this for the benefit of climate
00:01:24.280 change. Wow. I think one thing that climate alarmists are realizing that all this sort of
00:01:29.220 stuff that they were saying we needed to do, we need like a war effort to deal with climate
00:01:33.160 change. Well, they're seeing that that is how we're living right now. And people don't like
00:01:38.900 it. Regular folks of all walks of life, all political backgrounds, they want to go back
00:01:43.920 to some semblance of the way things were before. So I think the climate alarmists need to look
00:01:49.520 around and see a number of things. They need to see that, one, people don't want to live under
00:01:54.120 these tight restrictions that they inevitably want to bring about. Because a lot of them basically
00:01:58.860 admit, whether it's Elizabeth May or Naomi Klein or Greta Thunberg, that we need to really bring
00:02:04.780 economic activity to a considerable reduction to see the emissions reductions that they want to bring
00:02:10.520 about. And people aren't up for that. And the other thing that's really interesting that I think
00:02:15.020 they should reflect on as well is we don't need to be in this ever-maddening state of climate alarmism.
00:02:21.200 I mean, we were reading all of these unfortunate stories about climate change alarmism causing
00:02:27.280 depression and anxiety and people had to be medicated and so forth, and children actually
00:02:31.680 getting really upset about it. Hearing it talked about in the schools, this whole, we have seven
00:02:36.000 years left or 12 years or whatever it is to save the planet statistics that, by the way,
00:02:40.060 the intergovernmental panel on climate change. They themselves have been stepping forward and
00:02:45.620 telling all of these alarmists and activists, calm down. You guys are going over the top.
00:02:51.340 So I think what we have right now is kind of a pause moment for climate activists to kind of
00:02:56.180 grab their bearings and realize, guys, relax. You want to talk about being responsible stewards for
00:03:01.920 the environment and dealing with different industry standards and emissions protocols and all that?
00:03:05.920 Okay, fine. Go right ahead. But this constant, nonstop, maddening din, we don't need it. And quite
00:03:12.780 frankly, we've seen we're a lot better off from it. And when we're actually faced with really
00:03:18.220 difficult circumstances, like we're in right now, the challenge just kind of pales in comparison.
00:03:24.040 And a lot of people, they just don't have patience for it. So this whole thing has been something of a
00:03:28.080 lesson for the climate alarmists. And I'm quite frankly happy to have spent six months
00:03:32.340 while hearing from them nonstop every single day. Aren't you?