Juno News - August 17, 2020


A pause in climate alarmism


Episode Stats

Length

3 minutes

Words per Minute

194.92075

Word Count

701

Sentence Count

42

Misogynist Sentences

1


Summary


Transcript

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,
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?