Juno News - November 23, 2020


Green Hypocrisy ｜ Introduction


Episode Stats

Length

5 minutes

Words per Minute

156.21022

Word Count

859

Sentence Count

42

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

1


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Climate change has huge costs now.
00:00:01.520 I have no time for folks who are like,
00:00:04.240 we shouldn't take action.
00:00:05.700 The loss of human civilization
00:00:07.600 is not a far-fetched threat.
00:00:09.760 The facts around climate change
00:00:11.140 are fairly well established.
00:00:13.440 It's not a debate.
00:00:14.500 You have stolen my dreams and my childhood
00:00:17.760 with your empty words.
00:00:19.660 How dare you?
00:00:21.420 When it comes to the environment and climate change,
00:00:23.820 it feels like we're constantly being lectured
00:00:25.820 by journalists, politicians, and activists.
00:00:28.480 We're told that our way of life is unsustainable,
00:00:30.920 that we only have a few years to act,
00:00:32.680 and that we're facing an existential crisis,
00:00:35.340 not just as a country, but as a species and a planet.
00:00:38.680 We're told that the science is settled,
00:00:40.300 that any dissident thinking is akin to Holocaust denial.
00:00:44.700 It goes something like this.
00:00:46.720 The Earth's temperature is rapidly rising.
00:00:49.160 This is caused by human activity,
00:00:51.220 namely the burning of fossil fuels
00:00:52.980 which produce carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
00:00:55.860 The solution, therefore, must be to stop producing CO2.
00:01:00.320 Not to try to mitigate the damage,
00:01:02.220 adapt to our changing surroundings,
00:01:04.140 or create the economic conditions
00:01:05.760 to allow scientists and innovators
00:01:07.540 to do what they do best and start solving the problem.
00:01:10.580 No.
00:01:11.420 Instead, the settled solution
00:01:13.680 is for authoritative top-down action from governments.
00:01:16.840 And some activists don't just call for reducing emissions
00:01:19.780 or becoming carbon neutral.
00:01:21.560 They call for a complete ban on CO2.
00:01:24.660 To have a 67% chance of staying below
00:01:28.200 a 1.5 degrees of global temperature rise,
00:01:31.340 the best odds given by the IPCC,
00:01:34.060 the world had 420 gigatons of CO2 left to emit
00:01:39.120 back on January 1st, 2018.
00:01:41.740 Today, that figure is already down to less than 350 gigatons.
00:01:49.080 How dare you pretend that this can be sold
00:01:52.120 with just business as usual and some technical solutions?
00:01:57.080 With today's emissions levels,
00:02:00.200 that remaining CO2 budget will be entirely gone
00:02:04.040 within less than eight and a half years.
00:02:07.620 Just to be clear about what she's calling for,
00:02:10.380 this would be an end to our civilization as we know it,
00:02:13.660 an end to everything we use to power it.
00:02:17.220 Keep that in mind when you see journalists celebrating Greta
00:02:19.840 or politicians groveling at her feet.
00:02:22.380 She is one of the most radical voices in our society,
00:02:25.480 and she's been given an enormous platform
00:02:28.060 to throw her temper tantrum
00:02:29.860 and demand that we destroy everything about our society
00:02:33.140 simply because she believes it's bad.
00:02:36.220 In Canada, this ideology has led governments
00:02:38.720 to shut down coal plants,
00:02:40.540 introduce heavy-handed regulations
00:02:42.460 that destroy jobs and industry,
00:02:44.100 and impose a national carbon tax.
00:02:46.420 And those who oppose any of this
00:02:48.520 get their name dragged through the mud
00:02:50.520 and become the victim of character assassinations
00:02:53.160 and vicious name-calling.
00:02:54.720 When information comes out that challenges this narrative,
00:02:57.620 it's buried and hidden.
00:02:59.620 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
00:03:01.780 known as the IPCC, has gotten it wrong in the past.
00:03:05.560 The reports predict apocalyptic consequences for mankind,
00:03:09.320 but these reports are often riddled with errors
00:03:11.560 and have flawed modeling that vastly overestimate the problem.
00:03:16.280 The IPCC, much like other global institutions,
00:03:19.320 has become a highly charged political organization,
00:03:22.740 pushing its own ideology and manipulating the debate.
00:03:26.660 So what could be done about all this?
00:03:28.420 Where does this leave those of us who care about the environment,
00:03:31.240 believe in conservation,
00:03:32.780 and want to protect the planet from pollution and degradation,
00:03:36.160 but we don't quite subscribe to the hysteria, alarmism,
00:03:39.880 and environmentalist ideology?
00:03:41.680 The theme that kept repeating itself throughout our research
00:03:44.280 was the hypocrisy,
00:03:45.740 the do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do mentality,
00:03:48.620 that is so prevalent in the movement,
00:03:51.260 which is why we decided to call this series Green Hypocrisy.
00:03:54.720 In the first episode, we explore the origins of the carbon tax
00:03:58.180 and seek to understand its purpose
00:03:59.940 and how effective it is at reducing emissions.
00:04:02.480 Episode two takes a closer look at the environmental movement,
00:04:05.540 the activists themselves, who is funding them,
00:04:08.020 and how the movement has evolved
00:04:09.660 from the early days of environmentalism.
00:04:11.780 Episode three looks at a case study
00:04:13.780 exposing jaw-dropping corruption, pollution,
00:04:17.120 and the poisoning of the natural environment,
00:04:19.240 and how these actions have been enabled and funded
00:04:22.120 by the government of Canada
00:04:23.620 and other international institutions.
00:04:26.120 Finally, episode four explores green energy policies,
00:04:29.980 so-called clean energy initiatives,
00:04:32.440 and the industries and individuals profiting
00:04:35.280 off of ideological politicians
00:04:37.360 and their elusive quests for energy utopia.
00:04:40.260 Well, that's what this investigative documentary series
00:04:43.060 is all about.
00:04:44.120 We explore the policies, the activists,
00:04:46.240 the organizations, the governments,
00:04:47.980 the international institutions,
00:04:49.880 and the global climate lobby
00:04:52.040 to try to understand whether they are actually working
00:04:54.700 for the good of the planet
00:04:56.120 or whether they're motivated by something else altogether.
00:04:59.080 This original series features investigative reporting,
00:05:02.580 new information, exclusive interviews,
00:05:05.200 and bombshell revelations
00:05:07.060 about the industry behind the climate change movement.
00:05:10.700 During this series,
00:05:11.580 we peel back the layers of the onion
00:05:13.820 and expose to you, the viewer,
00:05:15.760 why it is okay to be skeptical of the climate alarmists.
00:05:19.260 It's okay to challenge their ideology
00:05:21.640 and to oppose their heavy-handed prescriptions.
00:05:24.200 And it's okay to stand up for our industries
00:05:27.360 and be proud of the energy we produce.