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


Environmentalism


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22 minutes

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112.366936

Word Count

2,565

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1

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary

In this episode, we take a look at environmentalism and how it has been around for a very long time, and how we should be worried about it. Let's start with a quick trivia question: what percentage of the atmosphere is composed of carbon dioxide? The answer is zero.


Transcript

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
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
00:01:48.760 the primary products of combustion is actually water you know the thing that puts out fires
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
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
00:02:41.260 your net and that's how you fish very simple very easy and most people figured this out
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
00:03:43.680 fucky
00:03:44.280 and these ancient britons noticed this
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
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
00:11:33.760 asinine
00:11:34.440 it is
00:11:35.280 absolutely
00:11:36.000 and utterly
00:11:36.780 asinine
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
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
00:13:42.500 asinine
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
00:14:29.600 in this
00:14:30.480 idiotic
00:14:31.740 CO2
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
00:14:45.000 ridiculous
00:14:45.760 little
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
00:15:00.420 fucking
00:15:00.740 intern
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
00:17:43.360 asinine
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
00:19:38.940 fuck with the
00:19:39.480 idiot voters
00:19:40.120 think about
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
00:21:30.820 sick
00:21:31.380 Marxists
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
00:21:50.640 bullshit
00:21:53.640 being peddled
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
00:22:11.420 stupidest
00:22:12.080 type of owl
00:22:13.660 out there
00:22:15.020 but IQ's a myth
00:22:17.080 Irini out folks
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
00:22:45.660 In
00:22:46.060 In
00:22:48.940 In
00:22:49.440 In
00:22:49.500 In
00:22:49.540 In