Juno News - March 28, 2020


We're living in a climate alarmist's dream world


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Length

3 minutes

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173.91766

Word Count

545

Sentence Count

18


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Our current situation with the coronavirus I think has a few things to
00:00:09.180 teach us about climate change and climate alarmism. For starters, one big
00:00:14.280 point that a lot of people, Greta Thunberg and Naomi Klein AOC, that they
00:00:18.600 have been making about climate change is we have to see people doing less, doing
00:00:23.520 less things, living life less fulsomely, less economic activity, and a number of
00:00:29.040 people have been running the math and saying, well I think if we actually do
00:00:32.520 what they're asking for, that leads to a recession. So let's reflect on the current
00:00:37.580 moment we're in right now, the great restrictions on our lives, the lockdowns
00:00:41.140 that we are in, and to a large degree some semblance of this is what would be
00:00:46.200 necessary if we brought in the measures the climate alarmists want to see.
00:00:50.160 Elizabeth May, Green Party of Canada leader, she has called for a whole of
00:00:53.880 society wartime mobilization to battle climate change. I mean I can't really
00:00:58.440 think what she's referring to other than some version of what we're seeing right
00:01:03.060 now. Very eerie, very alarming that we're actually getting a little bit of a
00:01:07.380 preview of what life could be like under the more draconian measures that the
00:01:12.040 climate alarmists would like to see introduced. Do you like the way we're
00:01:14.820 living right now? I do not, not one bit, and as the weeks progress we're gonna tire
00:01:19.680 of it ever more. But I think the other teachable moment that the coronavirus
00:01:24.440 response has for climate change is how you can actually tackle your problems in
00:01:30.060 life, not through government coercion, but through voluntary activity. Now we're
00:01:34.980 seeing a lot of top-down government responses to the coronavirus, most of
00:01:38.560 which people support, the financial support for people who are out of work
00:01:42.300 because of these forced closures, and of course the ramp up in medical
00:01:46.200 production, and getting medical equipment, and so forth. It's something that there is
00:01:49.760 widespread support for. But what we are also seeing is industrious and innovative
00:01:55.760 individuals, researchers, corporations come together not because they've been told
00:02:02.340 to by government, but because they want to, because they see the clear danger and they
00:02:07.800 want to respond to it. So many different independent researchers, experts, doing
00:02:12.820 remarkable things right now to try and get a vaccine as fast as possible. We see
00:02:17.240 companies retooling their manufacturing lines, their production schedule, so they
00:02:21.940 can create personal protective equipment for healthcare workers. It shows that
00:02:26.200 mobilization is possible when society, when community, wants to do it. It doesn't have
00:02:32.740 to come from human edict. It's in some sense very profound that there are so many
00:02:37.820 people who are rising to the call of duty right now because they believe it's an
00:02:42.460 important thing to do. Some lessons to put into perspective, because I guarantee
00:02:47.000 you when this is all over you're gonna see some voices out there, alarmists, who
00:02:51.080 don't realize and get perspective to see that these are the sorts of things that
00:02:55.460 really matter. They're gonna double down, triple down in their climate alarmism, and I
00:02:59.360 think one has to be prepared to respond to the things they're gonna say, and I
00:03:03.260 think just these are a couple responses to offer.