Leo D.M.J. Aurini - Environmentalism

00:00:00.000 let's start this video off with a quick trivia question what percentage of the

00:00:09.440 atmosphere is composed of carbon dioxide the answer is zero point zero three nine

00:00:21.120 percent environmentalism the funny thing about environmentalism is under the modern mythos you

00:00:33.180 have this idea that for all of human history we were just abusing and destroying and tearing apart

00:00:39.480 the earth you know maybe not those Romans because they only had bronze technology and bronze isn't

00:00:45.300 evil the way that plastic is evil but that somehow around the 60s or 70s conveniently that's when we

00:00:55.480 figured out that oh we should you know take care of the planet spaceship earth etc etc see these

00:01:04.280 pictures from the 1950s of these giant smokestacks just belching oh look at all that evil smoke going

00:01:11.100 into the the atmosphere they're killing the planet and yet those stories have very little bearing on

00:01:22.180 reality uh first of all if you've actually seen if you actually know those pictures of the smokestacks

00:01:27.680 and you know anything about anything you realize that that's water vapor that you're seeing when you

00:01:34.500 see exhaust coming out of a car yeah you used to see this a lot but when you see it it's primarily 0.98

00:01:39.420 water vapor that's one of those funny little science facts that these idiots don't get is that one of 0.94

00:01:48.760 the primary products of combustion is actually water you know the thing that puts out fires 0.96

00:01:54.420 so let's go back let's go way back to about 1100 AD or so now there's this method of fishing

00:02:07.440 fishing that most coastal peoples figured out when you're on the coast tide comes in tide goes out

00:02:17.080 regular basis so what you do is you set up nets that are just above below tide line so imagine you've

00:02:27.840 got your slope going down into the water here the water moves up the slope down the slope you put a net 0.97

00:02:33.500 right about here and when that tide's going up going out a whole bunch of stupid fish get caught in 0.97

00:02:41.260 your net and that's how you fish very simple very easy and most people figured this out 0.58

00:02:48.880 but let's go to 1180 thereabouts britannia

00:02:56.720 when the first the first state was beginning to form throughout the entire island uh since the the fall

00:03:07.220 of rome now this time people were using those techniques on the rivers

00:03:12.980 and you don't need to know that much about fish to understand why this would be a problem

00:03:19.680 salmon swim upstream to spawn

00:03:24.600 it's a vital part of the ecosystem if you are taking a a chokehold in the ecosystem

00:03:32.800 particularly one related to breeding

00:03:35.540 and eating all the fish or 99 of the fish that come through that

00:03:40.700 things are going to get a little bit 0.93

00:03:43.680 fucky 0.97

00:03:44.280 and these ancient britons noticed this 0.70

00:03:49.220 there are actually agreements reached

00:03:54.520 to not do this anymore

00:03:57.480 without without a complete super state

00:04:00.460 there's a lot of negotiation but everybody agreed

00:04:03.740 that this is not a good thing

00:04:06.040 i swear these

00:04:08.180 ecology kids they they read about

00:04:10.800 the tragedy of the commons and they think they're the first people to ever

00:04:14.200 ever hear of that

00:04:15.980 it's been something humanity's been dealing with

00:04:19.900 this since before recorded history

00:04:22.420 we know

00:04:24.260 how to deal with the tragedy of the commons

00:04:26.380 environmentalism

00:04:30.900 is very important

00:04:33.000 it is something that we should be concerned about

00:04:35.720 and it has always been around

00:04:37.340 so that's the first example

00:04:40.820 where you're

00:04:41.900 destroying

00:04:43.380 the natural resources in your environment

00:04:45.940 there'd be overfishing

00:04:47.280 in britain

00:04:48.380 a second major type of environmentalism

00:04:53.240 that you should be concerned about

00:04:54.700 is the

00:04:57.520 the subtler

00:04:58.520 aspects of what

00:05:00.380 our created environment

00:05:02.160 is doing on

00:05:03.500 upon ourselves

00:05:04.620 and the perfect example of this

00:05:07.160 look at the roman aqueducts

00:05:08.920 a brilliant engineering feat

00:05:11.660 that were lined with lead

00:05:14.220 so the entire roman populace

00:05:20.600 was suffering lead poisoning

00:05:23.040 and none of them realized it

00:05:27.700 none of them knew what was going on

00:05:29.500 if you want to take a modern day

00:05:31.860 crawlery

00:05:32.960 think of plastics

00:05:34.860 think of ziploc containers

00:05:37.120 in the microwave

00:05:38.280 are they bad for you?

00:05:42.560 possibly

00:05:43.100 is there any solid evidence?

00:05:46.640 no

00:05:46.860 there's a few hypotheses out there

00:05:48.880 that they mimic female hormones

00:05:51.160 but

00:05:54.700 it's probably a decent precaution

00:05:57.220 not to put ziploc

00:05:59.180 or plastic

00:06:00.280 in the microwave

00:06:01.540 maybe it doesn't do anything

00:06:03.940 but

00:06:05.200 or maybe it does

00:06:06.280 then you have other things

00:06:08.480 you have

00:06:08.960 catalytic converters

00:06:11.100 catalytic converters

00:06:13.240 have been proven to make a huge difference

00:06:15.040 you know

00:06:15.840 our environment

00:06:16.880 is something we should be

00:06:18.400 very very worried about

00:06:20.320 and I'll give you

00:06:21.680 one more modern example

00:06:23.960 because this is

00:06:25.460 one of those interesting things

00:06:27.000 that you pick up

00:06:28.120 working in the evil

00:06:30.020 evil

00:06:30.700 of alberto oil sands

00:06:32.280 aquifers

00:06:35.620 now what an aquifier is

00:06:38.620 it's a store of water

00:06:41.700 under the earth

00:06:42.720 and

00:06:43.720 most of our water

00:06:45.600 comes

00:06:46.780 from aquifers

00:06:47.900 throughout most of history

00:06:50.060 the way an aquifier works

00:06:54.380 is you have the

00:06:58.220 bedrock

00:06:59.340 of a planet

00:07:00.780 that's basically

00:07:02.100 impenetrable

00:07:03.080 it shifts around a bit

00:07:05.480 there's certainly

00:07:05.980 magma flows

00:07:06.980 that go through it

00:07:07.520 but the bedrock

00:07:08.080 is pretty bloody hard

00:07:09.660 not much goes through it

00:07:11.280 but above the bedrock

00:07:12.660 you have

00:07:13.480 regolith

00:07:14.120 and what regolith is

00:07:16.240 it's bedrock

00:07:18.060 that's been

00:07:19.220 chafed against

00:07:20.320 it's been

00:07:22.040 torn apart

00:07:22.960 into little

00:07:23.700 tiny bits

00:07:24.980 and the higher you get

00:07:26.800 the

00:07:27.700 the

00:07:28.040 more manipulable

00:07:29.460 manipulatable

00:07:30.460 the smaller the bits are

00:07:31.900 and then of course

00:07:34.580 on

00:07:34.780 planets like this

00:07:36.500 you get

00:07:36.900 soil

00:07:37.760 above them

00:07:38.560 and soil

00:07:39.260 is just

00:07:41.480 regolith

00:07:41.960 with

00:07:42.960 active

00:07:43.800 biological

00:07:44.700 processes

00:07:45.800 going on

00:07:46.760 inside of it

00:07:47.440 and so what an aquifer is

00:07:50.420 is you have the whole

00:07:52.300 rain cycle

00:07:53.400 rains down

00:07:55.220 it settles into

00:07:57.240 a place in the regolith

00:07:59.180 that's

00:08:00.660 particularly

00:08:01.720 good

00:08:03.080 for storing water

00:08:04.320 you'll have

00:08:05.620 alternating layers

00:08:07.040 of really hard stuff

00:08:08.160 and really loose stuff

00:08:09.160 with little tiny gaps

00:08:11.080 that you can get in it

00:08:12.640 and that's where

00:08:14.100 the water

00:08:14.460 stores itself

00:08:15.080 it's also where

00:08:15.840 the evil

00:08:16.520 evil 0.83

00:08:17.400 Alberta

00:08:18.200 tar sand oil

00:08:19.600 stores itself

00:08:20.600 and where that

00:08:21.340 evil

00:08:21.940 evil

00:08:22.680 fracking

00:08:24.580 natural gas

00:08:25.740 stores itself

00:08:27.040 and so when you

00:08:28.240 drill a well

00:08:29.500 into this

00:08:30.500 you're not going to get

00:08:31.900 all the water

00:08:32.540 at once

00:08:32.920 it's not some sort of

00:08:33.960 giant underground

00:08:34.860 lake

00:08:35.540 okay

00:08:36.580 it is

00:08:37.660 water built up

00:08:39.020 like around

00:08:39.640 in these tiny little

00:08:40.500 crevices all over the place

00:08:42.020 and it has a very

00:08:43.420 very slow flow rate

00:08:45.060 flow rate

00:08:46.020 varies of course

00:08:48.260 based upon what sort of

00:08:49.620 geology you're dealing

00:08:50.460 with there

00:08:50.900 in Australia

00:08:53.520 well I don't want to get

00:08:55.420 this wrong

00:08:55.900 but I believe they

00:08:57.260 actually have

00:08:58.040 water stored

00:08:59.240 since the Paleolithic

00:09:00.480 in Western Australia

00:09:02.240 there's a very

00:09:03.060 very slow drip

00:09:04.300 from east

00:09:05.020 to west

00:09:05.980 across the continent

00:09:06.840 in this gigantic

00:09:08.380 the largest aquifer

00:09:09.380 on earth

00:09:09.860 I do believe

00:09:10.460 so now that you know

00:09:15.060 what an aquifer is

00:09:16.300 you don't want to

00:09:21.040 over

00:09:21.520 well it

00:09:22.880 you don't want to

00:09:24.920 dig too many wells

00:09:25.700 and take out

00:09:26.200 too much water

00:09:27.460 because this aquifer

00:09:29.740 not only feeds

00:09:31.100 your well

00:09:31.580 it feeds

00:09:33.120 rivers

00:09:33.580 and streams

00:09:34.420 in your area

00:09:35.180 it can act

00:09:36.660 as a support

00:09:37.780 underneath

00:09:38.800 the city

00:09:39.760 that you live in

00:09:40.860 in fact

00:09:41.500 several American

00:09:42.240 cities have sunk

00:09:43.340 significant amounts

00:09:45.260 over the decades

00:09:47.220 and centuries

00:09:47.960 because

00:09:48.460 they've pulled

00:09:50.100 this water out

00:09:50.840 from underground

00:09:51.500 and also you

00:09:55.420 don't want to

00:09:56.540 deprive

00:09:57.040 the land

00:09:58.440 of this water

00:09:59.880 some of this

00:10:00.900 aquifer water

00:10:01.720 is what

00:10:02.860 trees use

00:10:03.640 especially

00:10:04.160 in arid regions

00:10:05.880 and if you

00:10:08.520 get

00:10:08.940 a plume

00:10:10.100 of pollutants

00:10:11.200 in this aquifer

00:10:12.620 you won't notice

00:10:15.000 anything at first

00:10:15.820 you'll have

00:10:16.840 this plume

00:10:17.540 shoot down

00:10:18.740 imagine

00:10:19.160 dropping a bit

00:10:20.740 of dye

00:10:21.580 into a glass

00:10:22.300 of water

00:10:22.720 it'll shoot

00:10:23.580 down

00:10:24.060 and the glass

00:10:25.100 of water

00:10:25.440 very slowly

00:10:26.440 expands

00:10:27.820 with aquifers

00:10:29.000 we're talking

00:10:29.460 about hundreds

00:10:30.320 hundreds

00:10:31.680 and thousands

00:10:32.440 of years

00:10:33.080 before the

00:10:34.200 pollutants

00:10:34.600 start coming

00:10:35.380 up

00:10:35.640 in our

00:10:36.560 drinking

00:10:36.840 water

00:10:37.240 that

00:10:40.200 is an

00:10:40.880 environmental

00:10:41.280 concern

00:10:41.880 and there's

00:10:43.140 some

00:10:43.420 very

00:10:44.640 loud

00:10:45.440 critics

00:10:45.940 that are

00:10:46.320 saying

00:10:46.720 that the

00:10:48.040 approach

00:10:48.600 in the

00:10:48.980 United

00:10:49.220 States

00:10:49.640 and

00:10:49.880 probably

00:10:50.760 Canada

00:10:51.280 Britain

00:10:52.420 Europe

00:10:52.920 is more

00:10:54.840 focused on

00:10:55.360 the election

00:10:55.840 cycle

00:10:56.280 is this

00:10:56.620 going to

00:10:56.820 cause a

00:10:57.200 problem

00:10:57.500 during my

00:10:58.040 election

00:10:58.440 cycle

00:10:58.860 no

00:10:59.620 well

00:11:00.300 it's not

00:11:00.700 really

00:11:00.980 a problem

00:11:01.620 then

00:11:02.020 that

00:11:06.540 is the

00:11:06.940 sort of

00:11:07.280 environmentalism

00:11:08.160 we should

00:11:09.140 care about

00:11:09.860 but what

00:11:13.120 what do

00:11:13.620 we hear

00:11:13.840 in the

00:11:14.020 mass media

00:11:14.500 what do

00:11:15.780 we have

00:11:16.180 shoved

00:11:16.660 down

00:11:17.000 our

00:11:17.260 throats

00:11:17.600 constantly

00:11:18.240 global

00:11:22.080 warming

00:11:23.700 folks

00:11:30.540 global

00:11:30.980 warming

00:11:31.420 is 0.98

00:11:33.760 asinine 0.98

00:11:34.440 it is

00:11:35.280 absolutely

00:11:36.000 and utterly 1.00

00:11:36.780 asinine 0.98

00:11:38.660 first of

00:11:39.940 let's

00:11:40.140 let's

00:11:40.400 take

00:11:40.600 this

00:11:40.840 supposed

00:11:41.260 threat

00:11:41.840 of

00:11:43.000 the

00:11:43.160 globe

00:11:43.420 warming

00:11:43.800 well

00:11:46.900 there's

00:11:47.080 a very

00:11:47.480 real

00:11:47.960 cause

00:11:49.120 for

00:11:49.280 concern

00:11:49.580 that

00:11:49.740 we

00:11:49.860 might

00:11:50.060 be

00:11:50.200 entering

00:11:50.500 an

00:11:50.660 ice

00:11:50.820 age

00:11:51.120 within

00:11:52.680 the

00:11:52.960 next

00:11:53.160 five

00:11:53.460 centuries

00:11:54.020 anytime

00:11:56.700 between

00:11:57.120 now

00:11:57.620 and

00:11:58.300 2500

00:11:58.920 AD

00:11:59.380 we're

00:12:00.000 due

00:12:00.140 for

00:12:00.340 an

00:12:00.460 ice

00:12:00.680 age

00:12:01.000 they

00:12:01.640 just

00:12:01.980 don't

00:12:03.100 really

00:12:03.320 tell

00:12:03.520 you

00:12:03.640 exactly

00:12:04.080 when

00:12:04.300 they're

00:12:04.440 coming

00:12:04.700 that

00:12:08.000 scares

00:12:08.320 me

00:12:08.560 not

00:12:08.900 global

00:12:09.180 warming

00:12:09.500 second

00:12:12.260 of all

00:12:12.680 what

00:12:14.720 has

00:12:14.860 happened

00:12:15.140 in the

00:12:15.420 past

00:12:15.900 during

00:12:16.700 recorded

00:12:17.180 history

00:12:17.720 when the

00:12:18.560 temperature

00:12:18.920 has gone

00:12:19.360 up

00:12:19.640 well

00:12:21.040 the

00:12:22.280 renaissance

00:12:22.740 and the

00:12:24.960 renaissance

00:12:25.200 wasn't just

00:12:26.020 a european

00:12:26.640 phenomenon

00:12:27.100 you can

00:12:27.460 find

00:12:27.700 corollaries

00:12:28.340 in

00:12:28.580 india

00:12:29.280 china

00:12:29.980 japan

00:12:30.780 when

00:12:31.980 the

00:12:32.180 climate

00:12:32.600 warms

00:12:33.200 up

00:12:33.540 there's

00:12:34.820 a

00:12:34.940 longer

00:12:35.160 growing

00:12:35.580 season

00:12:36.080 there's

00:12:37.240 more

00:12:38.260 free

00:12:38.700 energy

00:12:39.020 we're

00:12:39.240 not

00:12:39.420 trying

00:12:39.660 to

00:12:39.840 survive

00:12:40.360 during

00:12:40.700 this

00:12:40.880 terrible

00:12:41.640 winter

00:12:42.120 we

00:12:42.800 can

00:12:43.020 devote

00:12:44.220 more

00:12:44.660 of our

00:12:44.960 productive

00:12:45.320 energy

00:12:45.920 to

00:12:46.740 science

00:12:47.560 and the

00:12:47.860 arts

00:12:48.220 and

00:12:48.500 technology

00:12:49.540 and

00:12:49.840 civilization

00:12:50.360 i would

00:12:54.760 be

00:12:54.940 happy

00:12:55.400 if the

00:12:56.380 planet

00:12:56.600 were

00:12:56.880 five

00:12:57.680 degrees

00:12:58.160 ten

00:12:59.380 degrees

00:12:59.740 might

00:12:59.980 be

00:13:00.140 a

00:13:00.300 little

00:13:00.620 bit

00:13:00.820 interesting

00:13:01.400 but

00:13:02.360 it

00:13:02.480 certainly

00:13:02.840 wouldn't

00:13:03.180 kill

00:13:03.420 us 1.00

00:13:03.620 off

00:13:03.880 it

00:13:04.340 certainly

00:13:04.600 wouldn't

00:13:04.880 be

00:13:05.040 an

00:13:05.220 existential

00:13:05.620 threat

00:13:06.380 against

00:13:06.760 our

00:13:06.960 species

00:13:07.520 whereas

00:13:10.440 in

00:13:10.640 ice

00:13:11.280 age

00:13:11.620 our

00:13:15.060 species

00:13:15.420 will

00:13:15.620 survive

00:13:15.960 it

00:13:16.200 but

00:13:16.780 how

00:13:16.900 much

00:13:17.080 of

00:13:17.180 our

00:13:17.260 society

00:13:17.640 will

00:13:17.920 last

00:13:21.600 ice

00:13:21.860 age

00:13:22.120 we

00:13:22.620 got

00:13:22.760 knocked

00:13:23.000 down

00:13:23.180 to

00:13:23.320 10,000

00:13:24.000 individuals

00:13:24.900 and

00:13:28.500 we

00:13:28.640 had

00:13:28.860 much

00:13:29.120 bigger

00:13:29.420 brains

00:13:29.840 back

00:13:30.160 then

00:13:30.500 next

00:13:35.760 this

00:13:35.940 whole

00:13:36.320 co2

00:13:38.020 is a

00:13:38.920 pollutant

00:13:39.680 thing

00:13:40.220 it's just

00:13:41.480 another one

00:13:42.160 of these 1.00

00:13:42.500 asinine 1.00

00:13:43.420 environmentalist

00:13:46.380 calling cards

00:13:47.580 CO2

00:13:50.680 is a

00:13:50.900 natural

00:13:51.220 product

00:13:51.660 of the

00:13:52.060 environment

00:13:52.540 it's

00:13:53.260 a

00:13:53.680 critical

00:13:54.240 part

00:13:55.340 of the

00:13:55.920 biological

00:13:56.360 process

00:13:57.200 if you

00:13:59.580 increase

00:14:00.000 CO2

00:14:00.640 substantially

00:14:01.840 in the

00:14:02.040 atmosphere

00:14:02.500 do you

00:14:02.760 know what

00:14:02.940 would

00:14:03.080 happen

00:14:03.420 plants

00:14:04.920 would

00:14:05.140 grow

00:14:05.420 faster

00:14:06.120 and

00:14:09.820 there's

00:14:10.060 scientific

00:14:10.400 evidence

00:14:10.760 to

00:14:10.940 back

00:14:11.140 that

00:14:11.380 up

00:14:11.640 too

00:14:12.240 you'd

00:14:13.160 have

00:14:13.500 regions

00:14:14.760 that

00:14:15.000 formerly

00:14:15.620 you could

00:14:16.460 not

00:14:16.720 grow

00:14:17.220 commercially

00:14:17.760 viable

00:14:18.140 crops

00:14:18.640 all of a

00:14:20.040 sudden

00:14:20.260 with the

00:14:20.680 higher

00:14:20.880 CO2

00:14:21.340 levels

00:14:21.740 they'd be

00:14:22.360 commercially

00:14:22.740 viable

00:14:23.200 and

00:14:26.320 finally

00:14:26.660 the

00:14:27.000 last

00:14:28.600 linchpin 1.00

00:14:29.600 in this 1.00

00:14:30.480 idiotic 1.00

00:14:31.740 CO2 1.00

00:14:32.160 argument

00:14:32.620 I'm

00:14:35.800 sure

00:14:35.980 you've

00:14:36.240 all

00:14:36.720 seen

00:14:37.360 the

00:14:37.600 graph

00:14:38.040 this

00:14:39.780 is

00:14:39.860 actually

00:14:40.080 what

00:14:40.260 turned

00:14:40.580 me

00:14:40.860 off

00:14:41.180 of the

00:14:41.440 whole

00:14:41.600 environmental

00:14:42.040 movement

00:14:42.440 in the

00:14:42.740 first

00:14:42.980 place

00:14:43.260 was

00:14:43.480 Al Gore

00:14:44.100 and

00:14:44.800 his 1.00

00:14:45.000 ridiculous 0.99

00:14:45.760 little 1.00

00:14:46.140 movie

00:14:46.480 where he

00:14:48.560 had to

00:14:48.920 get that

00:14:49.280 little

00:14:49.520 electronic

00:14:50.340 accordion

00:14:51.660 to lift

00:14:52.160 him up

00:14:52.540 on his

00:14:53.080 giant

00:14:53.440 graph

00:14:53.820 to point

00:14:54.360 at it

00:14:54.960 yeah

00:14:55.360 you're

00:14:55.660 you're

00:14:56.240 a good

00:14:56.680 showman

00:14:57.120 you're

00:14:57.340 not a

00:14:57.740 good

00:14:57.900 scientist

00:14:58.360 Al Gore

00:14:58.940 you did

00:14:59.580 not

00:14:59.840 invent

00:15:00.220 the 1.00

00:15:00.420 fucking 1.00

00:15:00.740 intern 1.00

00:15:01.140 this

00:15:04.360 graph

00:15:04.760 of

00:15:05.080 temperature

00:15:07.000 levels

00:15:07.520 versus

00:15:08.860 CO2

00:15:10.120 levels

00:15:10.600 guess

00:15:13.360 what

00:15:13.580 there's

00:15:14.000 a gap

00:15:15.200 they don't

00:15:15.500 want you

00:15:15.800 to know

00:15:16.040 about

00:15:16.360 between

00:15:16.780 the

00:15:17.060 CO2

00:15:17.640 and

00:15:17.960 the

00:15:18.120 temperature

00:15:18.520 the

00:15:20.720 warm

00:15:20.980 temperature

00:15:21.420 happens

00:15:21.840 first

00:15:22.300 then

00:15:23.540 about

00:15:23.760 50 or

00:15:24.280 100

00:15:24.500 years

00:15:24.860 later

00:15:25.200 the

00:15:26.100 CO2

00:15:26.660 level

00:15:26.920 follows

00:15:27.380 it

00:15:27.620 because

00:15:29.240 you know

00:15:30.120 that thing

00:15:30.620 that covers

00:15:31.120 70%

00:15:31.780 of our

00:15:32.060 planet

00:15:32.440 the

00:15:33.040 ocean

00:15:33.440 CO2

00:15:36.240 is

00:15:36.420 water

00:15:36.720 soluble

00:15:37.280 when the

00:15:39.960 planet

00:15:40.220 warms up

00:15:40.880 the

00:15:41.840 oceans

00:15:42.400 slowly

00:15:43.980 release

00:15:44.840 CO2

00:15:45.640 into

00:15:45.880 the

00:15:46.100 atmosphere

00:15:46.660 thus

00:15:48.480 the

00:15:48.680 connection

00:15:49.100 between

00:15:49.640 temperature

00:15:50.520 and

00:15:51.280 CO2

00:15:52.100 these

00:15:56.560 people

00:15:56.760 know

00:15:56.980 this

00:15:57.300 these

00:15:58.180 people

00:15:58.420 have

00:15:58.760 the

00:15:58.920 data

00:15:59.200 they

00:16:00.360 study

00:16:00.760 this

00:16:00.980 in

00:16:01.140 school

00:16:01.500 but

00:16:03.900 they

00:16:04.000 don't

00:16:04.300 tell

00:16:05.740 that

00:16:06.000 to us

00:16:06.580 in the

00:16:06.780 media

00:16:07.060 so

00:16:12.080 what drives

00:16:12.540 climate

00:16:12.860 change

00:16:13.360 well

00:16:14.640 there's

00:16:14.780 two

00:16:14.920 interesting

00:16:15.400 theories

00:16:15.960 right

00:16:16.380 now

00:16:16.720 the

00:16:18.460 one

00:16:18.820 the

00:16:20.080 most

00:16:20.620 self-evident

00:16:21.120 one

00:16:21.520 is

00:16:22.140 you know

00:16:22.340 that

00:16:22.520 giant

00:16:23.320 ball

00:16:24.040 of

00:16:24.340 fusion

00:16:24.900 that

00:16:26.000 we're

00:16:26.300 locked

00:16:27.040 into

00:16:27.240 orbit

00:16:27.580 around

00:16:27.980 it's

00:16:28.280 roughly

00:16:28.720 in

00:16:29.320 that

00:16:29.620 direction

00:16:30.060 for

00:16:30.340 me

00:16:30.500 right

00:16:30.700 now

00:16:31.040 yeah

00:16:34.620 maybe

00:16:35.820 that

00:16:36.140 thing

00:16:36.460 causes

00:16:37.700 climate

00:16:38.180 change

00:16:38.860 it

00:16:40.200 goes

00:16:40.520 through

00:16:40.800 periods

00:16:41.580 where it

00:16:42.340 gets

00:16:42.480 hotter

00:16:42.820 and colder

00:16:43.380 and

00:16:44.560 there's

00:16:44.960 some

00:16:45.240 worrying

00:16:45.640 signs

00:16:46.120 that

00:16:46.340 it's

00:16:46.580 getting

00:16:46.820 colder

00:16:47.280 right

00:16:47.660 now

00:16:48.040 it

00:16:48.900 might

00:16:49.160 be

00:16:49.360 what

00:16:49.580 causes

00:16:49.980 ice

00:16:50.400 ages

00:16:50.900 it's

00:16:51.600 certainly

00:16:51.980 what

00:16:52.740 causes

00:16:53.220 winter

00:16:53.760 in the

00:16:54.720 north

00:16:55.020 and

00:16:55.240 south

00:16:55.460 hemispheres

00:16:56.160 and

00:17:00.160 there's

00:17:00.320 one

00:17:00.600 more

00:17:01.700 interesting

00:17:02.380 theory

00:17:03.260 that is

00:17:03.600 so

00:17:03.960 bloody

00:17:04.460 weird

00:17:04.900 that

00:17:05.280 I

00:17:05.580 think

00:17:05.840 it

00:17:05.980 might

00:17:06.140 actually

00:17:06.440 be

00:17:06.640 true

00:17:07.000 is

00:17:08.580 that

00:17:08.740 high

00:17:09.000 energy

00:17:09.320 particles

00:17:09.820 from

00:17:10.080 supernovas

00:17:11.140 trigger

00:17:12.820 cloud

00:17:13.300 formation

00:17:13.900 and

00:17:16.220 when you

00:17:16.460 have

00:17:16.620 more

00:17:16.820 clouds

00:17:17.380 you

00:17:18.020 have

00:17:18.260 less

00:17:18.500 light

00:17:18.920 more

00:17:19.680 light

00:17:19.940 reflecting

00:17:20.420 back

00:17:20.780 out

00:17:21.020 into

00:17:21.300 outer

00:17:21.520 space

00:17:21.980 so

00:17:22.580 you

00:17:22.660 get

00:17:22.780 less

00:17:23.000 temperature

00:17:23.420 and

00:17:25.980 it

00:17:26.160 is

00:17:26.320 so

00:17:26.600 bloody

00:17:27.360 weird

00:17:27.740 that

00:17:27.940 I

00:17:28.080 think

00:17:28.400 it

00:17:28.780 just

00:17:29.020 has

00:17:29.240 to

00:17:29.340 be

00:17:29.460 true

00:17:29.680 but

00:17:31.080 either

00:17:31.240 way

00:17:31.380 these

00:17:31.720 are

00:17:31.840 two

00:17:32.040 workable

00:17:32.520 and

00:17:32.720 interesting

00:17:33.240 theories

00:17:33.720 that

00:17:33.880 are

00:17:33.980 plausible

00:17:34.520 this

00:17:35.620 CO2

00:17:36.720 myth

00:17:37.140 that

00:17:37.860 somehow

00:17:38.120 driving

00:17:38.620 your

00:17:38.840 car

00:17:39.280 is

00:17:39.860 bad

00:17:40.160 for

00:17:40.320 the

00:17:40.440 planet

00:17:40.800 is

00:17:42.400 absolutely 1.00

00:17:43.360 asinine 0.93

00:17:44.040 there's

00:17:45.960 a

00:17:46.320 saying

00:17:46.980 and

00:17:47.760 nobody

00:17:47.980 knows

00:17:48.280 quite who

00:17:48.840 invented

00:17:49.220 it

00:17:49.380 there's

00:17:49.620 a

00:17:49.780 few

00:17:50.180 different

00:17:50.520 people

00:17:50.820 in the

00:17:51.060 ring

00:17:51.260 contending

00:17:52.600 for being

00:17:53.200 the inventor

00:17:53.620 but the

00:17:54.300 watermelon

00:17:54.840 green on the

00:17:57.140 outside

00:17:57.780 red

00:17:59.360 on the

00:18:00.280 inside

00:18:00.740 and that's

00:18:02.140 what you see

00:18:02.500 with all of

00:18:02.960 these

00:18:03.100 environmentalists

00:18:03.900 is they

00:18:04.640 don't actually

00:18:05.600 want a

00:18:06.780 solution

00:18:07.180 they want

00:18:08.100 to create

00:18:08.780 problems

00:18:09.780 they want

00:18:13.040 sustainable

00:18:13.620 energy

00:18:14.140 and

00:18:15.840 as you

00:18:17.380 all know

00:18:17.700 I'm

00:18:17.960 actually

00:18:18.180 quite

00:18:18.440 worried

00:18:18.880 about

00:18:19.700 peak

00:18:20.360 oil

00:18:20.660 about

00:18:20.960 energy

00:18:21.840 consumption

00:18:22.440 about

00:18:23.300 how we're

00:18:24.580 going to

00:18:24.740 keep

00:18:24.920 surviving

00:18:25.320 because

00:18:25.680 oil

00:18:25.980 is

00:18:26.400 ultimately

00:18:26.920 a

00:18:27.640 non-renewable

00:18:28.320 resource

00:18:28.980 though

00:18:30.840 one of my

00:18:31.840 viewers

00:18:32.140 a geologist

00:18:32.780 did send

00:18:33.300 me some

00:18:33.640 very

00:18:34.060 interesting

00:18:35.100 information

00:18:35.640 that

00:18:36.380 what I

00:18:37.560 said about

00:18:37.900 peak

00:18:38.140 oil

00:18:38.520 might be

00:18:39.840 a very

00:18:40.140 biased

00:18:40.840 and incorrect

00:18:41.840 assertion

00:18:43.840 I'm

00:18:44.440 certainly

00:18:44.640 going to

00:18:44.900 do a

00:18:45.260 hell of

00:18:45.560 a lot

00:18:45.720 more

00:18:45.900 reading

00:18:46.140 before I

00:18:46.640 write

00:18:46.940 anything

00:18:47.320 significant

00:18:47.820 about

00:18:48.080 this

00:18:48.420 but

00:18:50.020 regardless

00:18:50.380 energy

00:18:51.080 is a

00:18:51.360 concern

00:18:51.660 we need

00:18:52.440 energy

00:18:52.880 we need

00:18:53.680 energy

00:18:54.040 to

00:18:54.660 survive

00:18:55.480 so

00:19:00.080 why not

00:19:00.400 nuclear

00:19:00.840 the

00:19:02.640 environmentalists

00:19:03.520 are up in

00:19:04.220 arms

00:19:04.640 about

00:19:05.280 nuclear

00:19:05.800 there

00:19:07.160 hasn't been

00:19:07.600 a nuclear

00:19:08.120 plant built

00:19:09.300 in the

00:19:09.660 United States

00:19:10.200 in four

00:19:10.660 years

00:19:11.100 the

00:19:12.740 United States

00:19:13.320 is using

00:19:14.240 technology

00:19:15.520 from the

00:19:16.080 60s and

00:19:16.880 70s

00:19:17.560 in their

00:19:18.080 nuclear

00:19:18.440 plants

00:19:18.920 and you

00:19:20.020 think we

00:19:20.320 haven't

00:19:20.540 learned a

00:19:20.920 few things

00:19:21.320 since then

00:19:21.780 you think

00:19:22.240 we haven't

00:19:23.000 designed

00:19:23.740 better

00:19:24.660 nuclear

00:19:25.160 plants

00:19:25.620 more

00:19:26.060 advanced

00:19:26.620 nuclear

00:19:27.340 plants

00:19:27.840 thank God

00:19:31.520 here in

00:19:31.900 Canada

00:19:32.220 we actually

00:19:33.740 have them

00:19:34.320 this good

00:19:35.420 old red

00:19:35.880 Toryism

00:19:36.640 that

00:19:37.040 sometimes

00:19:37.940 the government

00:19:38.320 doesn't give a 0.99

00:19:38.940 fuck with the 1.00

00:19:39.480 idiot voters 1.00

00:19:40.120 think about 1.00

00:19:41.100 things

00:19:41.380 and so we

00:19:41.720 do have

00:19:42.100 nuclear

00:19:42.460 plants

00:19:42.840 they're trying

00:19:43.520 to build

00:19:43.900 one north

00:19:44.460 of Calgary

00:19:45.340 right now

00:19:45.940 and there's

00:19:46.800 just this

00:19:47.280 huge

00:19:48.720 brouhaha

00:19:49.580 over it

00:19:50.560 why

00:19:51.860 it doesn't

00:19:53.580 pollute

00:19:54.000 it creates

00:19:55.980 energy

00:19:56.500 it's

00:19:59.280 renewable

00:20:00.500 unlike oil

00:20:02.320 we're

00:20:06.100 we're not

00:20:06.740 we're not

00:20:06.760 in danger

00:20:07.900 of running

00:20:08.540 out of

00:20:09.180 nuclear

00:20:09.780 materials

00:20:10.920 fissionable

00:20:11.680 materials

00:20:12.380 for at

00:20:13.860 least

00:20:14.320 the next

00:20:15.260 10 million

00:20:15.740 years

00:20:16.180 okay

00:20:16.480 like this

00:20:17.280 is not

00:20:17.920 a pressing

00:20:18.480 concern

00:20:18.920 right now

00:20:19.660 and what do

00:20:22.980 the environmentalists

00:20:23.720 do

00:20:23.920 they want

00:20:25.580 subsidies

00:20:26.360 for solar

00:20:28.260 panel companies

00:20:29.180 and wind

00:20:30.260 farms

00:20:30.920 and

00:20:31.480 banning

00:20:33.800 banning oil

00:20:35.420 banning natural

00:20:36.220 gas

00:20:36.580 banning coal

00:20:37.640 these people

00:20:44.820 do not

00:20:45.540 care about

00:20:46.020 the environment

00:20:46.600 they do not

00:20:47.780 care about

00:20:48.280 aquifers

00:20:49.120 they don't

00:20:50.580 care about

00:20:50.940 mining

00:20:51.520 either

00:20:52.440 funny thing

00:20:54.220 about

00:20:54.440 mining

00:20:55.320 versus oil

00:20:56.260 mining is

00:20:57.720 actually far

00:20:58.560 more destructive

00:20:59.680 of the local

00:21:00.640 environment

00:21:01.200 but it's

00:21:02.960 such a cutthroat

00:21:03.600 industry

00:21:04.120 that there's

00:21:05.320 very little

00:21:05.880 money to be

00:21:06.360 made in it

00:21:06.860 so they go

00:21:08.240 after the guys

00:21:08.940 with money

00:21:10.200 the guys

00:21:11.520 getting oil

00:21:12.220 out of the

00:21:12.860 ground

00:21:13.220 it's

00:21:16.860 terrible

00:21:18.200 it's absolutely

00:21:19.280 terrible

00:21:19.660 because environmentalism

00:21:20.840 true environmentalism

00:21:22.540 is such

00:21:23.580 an important

00:21:24.880 thing

00:21:25.600 and we have

00:21:28.960 a bunch

00:21:29.860 of these 0.99

00:21:30.820 sick 1.00

00:21:31.380 Marxists 0.99

00:21:32.440 running the show

00:21:33.560 so don't go

00:21:39.180 overboard

00:21:39.800 and be all

00:21:41.200 anti-environment

00:21:42.200 because you're

00:21:42.660 right wing

00:21:43.300 and lol

00:21:44.120 I threw a

00:21:44.740 plastic cup

00:21:45.400 out the

00:21:45.720 window

00:21:46.080 but don't

00:21:48.820 fall

00:21:49.220 for this 1.00

00:21:50.640 bullshit 1.00

00:21:53.640 being peddled 1.00

00:21:55.380 by the

00:21:55.940 quote unquote

00:21:56.760 environmental

00:21:57.900 scientists

00:21:58.900 I dated

00:22:01.420 an environmental

00:22:02.040 scientist

00:22:02.660 she did not

00:22:04.640 believe

00:22:05.880 in IQ

00:22:07.100 even though

00:22:08.700 she believed

00:22:09.420 that her

00:22:09.940 burrowing owls

00:22:10.980 were the 1.00

00:22:11.420 stupidest 1.00

00:22:12.080 type of owl 1.00

00:22:13.660 out there

00:22:15.020 but IQ's a myth

00:22:17.080 Irini out folks 1.00

00:22:19.640 are

00:22:34.800 In

00:22:35.380 In

00:22:39.540 In

00:22:40.340 In

00:22:41.820 in

00:22:43.180 in

00:22:43.520 In

00:22:44.260 In

00:22:44.800 In

00:22:45.100 In

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Leo D.M.J. Aurini - November 17, 2012

Environmentalism

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