Juno News - September 30, 2019


Climate alarmists don't have any viable solutions


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In the wake of the global climate strikes across Canada on Friday, I have a question about the tone of the climate alarmists' claims that people are dying because of climate change. Is there a political agenda at work here? Or is there something more to it than that?

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00:00:00.000 I've got one very important very pressing question after observing the
00:00:12.960 global climate strike rallies that took place in cities all across Canada and by
00:00:17.680 observing I don't just mean watching the different ones on television on social
00:00:21.660 media watching the ones in Ottawa the one in Montreal where Prime Minister
00:00:25.560 Justin Trudeau was at I mean observing firsthand in person the one that
00:00:29.760 happened in downtown Toronto in Queen's Park and spilling over to the adjacent
00:00:33.960 streets I went down to take a look at what was going on well it really did
00:00:37.320 spill over into many streets this this thing was massive I haven't seen a
00:00:41.040 public protest like this in Toronto in many many years and my question is about
00:00:47.640 the tone of what they're saying of what's happening the the frenzied energy the
00:00:54.000 manic energy that is taking place at these rallies the claims that are being
00:00:59.460 made being made with a lot of emotional fervor we saw Greta Thunberg a couple 1.00
00:01:04.980 days ago at the United Nations thundering that people are dying she said at the
00:01:10.980 rallies on Friday she was at the one in Montreal and she condemned Justin Trudeau
00:01:14.580 for not doing enough even though this is one of the main issues he talks about the
00:01:19.140 most it seems like there's very little that he and Catherine McKenna do that
00:01:22.540 isn't related to this file people are dying she said I'm not so sure send me
00:01:29.140 emails write to me if I'm mistaken but I don't know if there's a single example of
00:01:33.700 an individual dying because of climate change that one can isolate as climate
00:01:38.860 change being the cause we hear about there being extreme weather events but
00:01:42.580 even the very documents that a lot of climate alarmists cite these
00:01:45.980 intergovernmental panels and climate change their reports and so forth they even say well
00:01:50.380 there's no slam dunk correlation proving that for instance this extreme weather
00:01:54.820 event was in fact caused by climate change so what is she actually talking about but
00:02:01.060 very few people chose to raise their hand and say hold on I have a problem with
00:02:05.380 what Greta Thunberg is saying I have a concern in fact some people were
00:02:08.800 publicly chastised lambasted even even some people let go from their
00:02:13.840 commentator positions for saying critical things about her I think perhaps they were
00:02:18.220 more personal attacks on her but you get the point the idea was don't say much
00:02:22.660 critical about what this young woman is saying and now many young people are
00:02:27.400 being encouraged to say this themselves some of them perhaps through self
00:02:31.300 motivation they decide I want to do this as well others because their school
00:02:35.260 boards and I've seen the permission slips so this is definitely happening their
00:02:38.460 school boards sent home permission slips to take these kids to these protests to
00:02:43.900 take them down in buses or to take them via public transit and so forth so they can
00:02:48.340 be up these rallies where they say the world is on fire I saw those signs saying
00:02:53.200 that where they said down with capitalism I saw those signs as well that could
00:02:57.820 maybe suggest to you that there's a bit of a political ideology involved in these
00:03:02.380 events as well where they say that people are dying even though that is a
00:03:06.580 rather rather dodgy sentence there and when you're focused on those extremes can you
00:03:11.920 bring yourself back and just talk more reasonably about how can we deal with
00:03:17.620 environmental issues being responsible stewards of the land and so forth talking
00:03:22.440 about these things in moderate ways that bring everyone together and work towards
00:03:26.900 solutions what were the proposed solutions I didn't hear much I heard a lot of a lot
00:03:32.900 of people yelling very dire urgent things but when you're so caught up in this
00:03:38.600 mania how do you step back and how do you then talk about public policy issues how
00:03:44.300 do you talk about these incredibly dense reports put out by various organizations
00:03:48.640 United Nations groups other scientists and stuff how do you go from the world is
00:03:53.420 burning to then sitting down and really putting on your reading glasses if you need
00:03:57.420 them and flipping through and waiting through these reports that take many many hours to get
00:04:01.060 through and and try and understand you know it's interesting I was reading the new
00:04:05.360 introduction and conclusion to Naomi Klein's latest book and she is one of the most passionate
00:04:09.920 climate alarmists out there Canadian activist who is working behind the scenes with people
00:04:14.700 like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and I had to chuckle because she knows a lot of things she sort of
00:04:20.620 knows what she's talking about I don't agree with her in a lot of conclusions but in this essay
00:04:25.080 she actually gives us a few keys to other things we can do that are not massive carbon taxes and not a
00:04:31.800 socialist takeover of all governments to to bring about a green new deal which is of course
00:04:36.560 what she wants but she acknowledges in the essay as more people should acknowledge that planting
00:04:41.460 trees is actually a great way to do carbon capture why don't we talk about planting trees more she 0.96
00:04:46.460 acknowledged she acknowledges that a lot of these new green energy initiatives that private companies
00:04:51.300 are doing of their own volition and through their own hard work and ingenuity and just
00:04:55.900 the human capacity to be innovative they are actually creating a better mousetrap a new green
00:05:02.200 mousetrap and as the years go by they're creating more and more affordable models meaning the free
00:05:07.300 marketplace of ideas is actually working meaning a lot of these doomsday scenarios are perhaps not
00:05:13.840 going to come about because of just human beings independently doing things some of it even driven by
00:05:19.680 capitalism desire to build a an electric vehicle that is going to be cheaper than an internal
00:05:25.620 combustion engine wow these are actually really impressive things that we should be talking
00:05:30.020 about but we're not talking about them because we're too caught up in this frenzy that we've seen
00:05:35.440 at these climate rallies