Juno News - November 23, 2020


Green Hypocrisy ｜ Introduction


Episode Stats


Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

156.21022

Word count

859

Sentence count

42

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

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Hate speech

1

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Summary

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When it comes to the environment and climate change, it feels like we are constantly being lectured by journalists, politicians, and activists. We re told that our way of life is unsustainable, that we only have a few years to act, and that we re facing an existential crisis not just as a country but as a species and a planet.

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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. 0.54
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 1.00
00:02:29.860 and demand that we destroy everything about our society 0.82
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.