Polling On Climate Change Is Nonsense： Canadians Care About The Economy
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about the overinflowing nature of climate change in Canada, and why the Green Party is the worst party in the polls when it comes to climate change. I also talk about why I don't believe that climate change is actually the most important issue for most people.
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One of the most annoyingly overinflated issues in Canadian politics has to be environment and
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climate change. It's one of those discussions where it seems like almost all of the discourse
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around it is purely artificial. It's even true that a lot of the publications that do a lot of
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focus on climate change and renewable energy reporting are effectively just funded by
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renewable lobbying firms and different green energy companies. It's a very artificial part
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of the Canadian political discourse. And one of the most annoying things, at least to me,
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is just the way that polling has also inflated the issue. It makes it seem like it's the biggest
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issue in Canada for a lot of people, when really what I think happens whenever we see polls that
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come out supposedly demonstrating that climate change and environment are as the biggest issue
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for people, it just demonstrates that there's an unseriousness that has been baked into a lot of
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Canadian politics these days, that there's a sort of subsection of upper middle class people
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who, when they're asked to name their top issue, they're more likely to not think about all the
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actual concerns they have in life, but to think, what should I say that makes it sound like I
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really, you know, I'm a deep thinker on Canadian politics. I really care about something like on a
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moral level, like I have moral views on things, but not like those pro-life people, because, you know,
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that's not the kind of moral stances I want to take. I want to take, you know, very, you know,
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granola and earthy positions on issues. But so that's where I think that when you, whenever you
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see climate change and environment being rated the top issue, it's not because there's actually a
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large amount of people who care about climate change, it's because there's a lot of people
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who think that it's, that they should be caring a lot about climate change, but, you know, they don't
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live it day to day. So I just wanted to highlight this poll that came up from Nanos Research that
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showed that supposedly 16.4% of Canadians as of August 18th, think that climate change and
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environment is the top issue category in the country right now. And that's followed by inflation
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at 13.8%, jobs and economy at 13.3, healthcare at 11, and, you know, housing and cost of housing at 5.9.
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It's absurd. Considering how big the issue of housing is right now, I don't believe that the actual
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top issue for people is environment and climate change. Yes, maybe it's the top issue for people
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who make over $500,000 a year. But why is the Green Party always so far down in the polls
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if supposedly everyone really cares about climate change? And you could say, well, well, the liberals
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and NDP also take climate change seriously. Like, yeah, but if there's 50, if there's like 16.8% of
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people who take the issue very seriously, you think that the Green Party wouldn't be struggling to
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hold on to their two seats right now? Because like, I just want to go back to some of the polling,
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like the polling right now, like this is the Main Street poll, like you go to the Nanos one has it
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much closer to be fair. But like the Green Party wouldn't be pulling at 4% if climate change was a
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real hot button issue in this country, especially because smaller parties actually usually have a
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good time of getting an outsized rating in the polls, just simply because their members tend to
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be much more politically active. Like you don't join a small party as a casual voter, you tend to join it
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as someone who's very into politics. But the Green Party, everywhere you look, it's just, you know,
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4%, 3%, sometimes they get 5%. But considering the party most closely associated with taking
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climate change, like deathly seriously, they would probably be able to pull a lot more votes
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if they actually, you know, they did genuinely, if they like the climate change issue was genuinely
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one of the top issues in the country, but it's simply not. And really what I think when you look
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at that 16.8% number, I think that the actual number of people who think it's their top issue
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is probably around 5%, if not 3%. Most people who are struggling to like afford housing, who are,
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you know, worried about losing their jobs, have lost their jobs, or are being really battered by
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inflation, especially with their savings. Those are obviously the top issues. And of course,
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in that Nanos poll, if you aggregated all the issues that are very much economic based,
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it probably way outweighs the environment. But you know, the way that they sort of stagnate,
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they sort of separate out all of the issues involving the economy and the way that they
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concentrate everything to do with environment climate change into just the environment category
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makes it seem more important. But even then, I think it's been overinflated. But yeah, it's like
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even even the Nanos poll when I if I just quickly go back to it, like, there's not a social issue on
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there. There's not, you know, abortion as an issue on there. There's no sort of like, you know,
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opposition to wokeism, or, you know, support for the progressive agenda on there. It's just not
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there. So I think that a lot of these polls have effectively been designed in order to sort of
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remove some hot button issues. And then just put in a bunch of when I say boring, I don't mean not
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important. But I mean, it's not like a hot blooded issue to talk about. But when you add economic issues,
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and then you have environment there, you're going to have a lot of progressive people just saying
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environment, because it's the most sort of high minded of the issues on that list. But in reality,
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when they go out and vote, I guarantee that they're not voting based on the environment. Again,
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even if I'm to move away from the Green Party example, why is the Green Party polling solo,
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let's just pretend most of the people who vote for the environment option in these polls think,
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well, the Green Party can't get elected, so I'll vote NDP or Liberal. But again, when I go through
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all the recent polls, the Conservatives are up like 12 or 13%, some like anywhere from seven to 13.
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That's a pretty decent lead. And if supposedly the biggest issue in the country is environment,
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you think that the Liberal and NDP polling numbers would be a little bit more stable
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if they're, you know, really taking the biggest issue in the country seriously. But it's just not
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the biggest issue in the country. Again, like all the reporting on in renewable energy and green
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energy, it tends to be very artificial part of Canadian politics. There's a lot of money behind
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people pretending to take the climate change environment issue seriously. Not that people
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online who say that they take it seriously are lying. But there's a lot of, you know, overheating
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of that topic. Not like how many people are really reading article after article every day about
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renewable energy and, you know, different sort of discourses on coal power and nuclear energy.
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It's a very niche part of the, it's very niche part of Canadian politics. Yet somehow there's
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millions of dollars to operate entire news publications just based off this topic. It's
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not because people actually can't like go to another issue that wasn't even, didn't even make
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that NATO's poll pro-life issues. There's like a dozen pro-life groups in Canada and they're all
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fully funded through their donors. It's not that they're not getting artificially inflated budgets
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from some sort of big corporation that is like invested in pro-life issues. That's something like that
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doesn't really exist. It's that people genuinely care about it. So they give their money towards
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it. But when you see, you know, people like David Musk up on, on Twitter, constantly championing the
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climate change issue, it's not because people that really care that much, it's just because there's
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a lot of money in championing the renewable side of the energy issue at the moment. But that's pretty
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much it for me today. I just just got on my nerves because I always hate whenever like people,
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whenever there's discourse about Canadian politics and the conservatives are ahead and then like
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people fold their arms and they're like, well, I guess, well, they're going to fail in this next
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election because they don't take climate change seriously. No one cares. No one cares. People
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just want their lives to be better. I guess this is a quick aside. I'm not going to end the video
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as fast as I thought, but I guarantee you, if you took the people who said that they think
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environment is their top issue, and then you pulled them saying, if we reintroduce coal onto the power
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grid in our province, we could reduce power bills by 40%. I, I guarantee three quarters of them would
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probably maybe not admit it, but three quarters of them would say, yeah, it's reasonable to bring
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back coal for that. You know, people are really struggling. They should, they should be able to
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have some more money in their pockets to be able to pay for other things, but just their inflated
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power bills. At the end of the day, people care about things that actually affect their lives.
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And while climate change can affect your life in an abstract way, most people do not live in fear of
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climate change day to day. They actually live in fear of the things that really are going to hurt
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them, like inflation, like the ability to afford a house, like, you know, the inflation of food
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