March 20, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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| Alright, welcome back to the CounterThink edition of the Health Ranger Report here on TalkNetwork.com. | |
| I'm Mike Adams of the Health Rangers. | |
| My job to get you to open your mind and think differently, challenge your own beliefs, think differently about the things that you have long believed to be true. | |
| In this segment, we're going to talk about... | |
| False environmentalism. | |
| And you know what got me thinking about this? | |
| I was watching an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm with Larry David. | |
| It's a great show. | |
| Larry David's a comic genius and he always pushes the envelope of societal politeness and social contracts and social norms by challenging them playing a character who's sort of naive about all these rules. | |
| Now in the show and in real life, Larry David is a big time Welcome to my show! | |
| What he portrays is himself and other characters who are always taking part in raising money for the NRDC, which is a big environmental group. | |
| I think it's the National Resources Defense Council, right? | |
| And the NRDC is all about trying to save nature, protect the planet, these kinds of things, protect wildlife habitat ecosystems, and so on. | |
| Noble goals, right? | |
| Yeah. | |
| However, the contradiction that I want to point out here, and this is the counter-think angle of this, is that you've got these wealthy people in really nice, upscale homes, large homes. | |
| They used to be called probably mansions. | |
| Who are living, you know, an opulent lifestyle. | |
| They're eating at fancy restaurants. | |
| They're driving expensive cars. | |
| They're wearing very expensive clothes. | |
| And they have servants. | |
| They have gardeners. | |
| And they have, you know, home cleaners, maids, whatever. | |
| Chefs, cooks, you name it. | |
| And they're all... | |
| In order to be socially acceptable in their group, they're all raising money for the NRDC and they're going to the NRDC fundraisers and dinners and giving donations and having a benefit and so on. | |
| And you see this in New York too and East Coast. | |
| You see all these wealthy elite people who are living these lifestyles in opulent houses and cars and so on. | |
| And they're giving money, they're raising money for their benefits to be socially accepted in their peer group. | |
| I'm here to tell you they're all phonies, and here's why. | |
| And by the way, a real environmentalist is someone who lives in nature, lives out in the country in a more humble setting and doesn't live in a mansion, doesn't drive a big fancy car, doesn't import food into the cities just so they can have fancy doesn't import food into the cities just so they can have fancy food and A real environmentalist is someone who, I mean, the ultimate expression of an environmentalist is someone who has a very, very tiny ecological footprint. | |
| In other words, someone who lives in a mud hut, who grows most of their own food, doesn't use air conditioning, air conditioning, who doesn't import their food from a thousand miles away just so they can enjoy something that's exotic and, you know, special fancy food. | |
| These wealthy elite environmentalists are nothing like a real environmentalist. | |
| They do not have small ecological footprints. | |
| They have huge ecological footprints. | |
| Their homes take enormous resources to heat and cool. | |
| They often fly on private jets, which are very inefficient in terms of the amount of fuel expended per passenger mile. | |
| They Again, their food is imported from very, very far away. | |
| Their clothing is very, very high-end expensive clothing that's also usually imported. | |
| And, you know, just on and on and on. | |
| These people are false environmentalists. | |
| And what they miss, what they don't get is the idea that if you live an opulent lifestyle, the mere fact of you being alive is displacing nature. | |
| You are displacing nature. | |
| If you live in a house that is, I don't know, a 4,000 square foot house for just two people, let's say, you are displacing nature. | |
| There is some cost of lives in nature that had to have been paid slash extracted in order for you to have that house. | |
| Think about the wood that went into the house, the building materials, the chemicals that went into the insulation, the tile flooring, how it was mined somewhere else in a fancy marble house. | |
| A rock quarry of some kind and transported to you, to your home using fossil fuels. | |
| All of these fancy materials are imported using fossil fuels into your fancy home. | |
| big thick stone countertops for your kitchen, all these things, burning a lot of fuel, using a lot of low end labor to get those to these fancy homes so these people can live an opulent lifestyle. | |
| And then they support the NRDC because they have, well, they should have guilt about living such an opulent anti-environmentalist lifestyle. | |
| So they think they can compensate for that by giving money. | |
| And that's really what they're trying to do. | |
| They're They're trying to buy off the guilt for living a non-ecological lifestyle as if they could just spend fiat currency money to buy off the bad karma that they're actually building up every day that they live their lives in this opulent lifestyle. | |
| A true environmentalist is someone who lives with a very tiny ecological footprint, who does not tear down an acre of forest to build their homestead house. | |
| You know, who does not displace all of the indigenous life in the local area to have a large lawn that they spray with herbicides to make it look green and clean and fancy. | |
| A real environmentalist does not eat food imported from hundreds or thousands of miles away. | |
| They eat local and they grow a lot of their own food. | |
| A real environmentalist, by the way, looks a lot like a hippie farmer. | |
| If you really want to get down to it, someone who's growing their own food, raising some of their own chicken eggs, their own cattle, their own sheep, maybe they're milking the cow, doing their own cheese. | |
| Basically, the Amish are damn good environmentalists. | |
| They're the real environmentalists, and they don't even have to raise money to do it. | |
| They're living an ecologically sound lifestyle as an extension of just the way they live. | |
| They don't have to go out of their way. | |
| They don't even drive cars, much less have to drive a Prius to try to act like they're environmentalists. | |
| So, when you really think about who supports the environment, you can't listen to just the words that they say. | |
| You can't listen to just how much money they donated. | |
| You have to look at what is their lifestyle. | |
| Are they living a lifestyle that has a very small ecological footprint? | |
| Or are they living a lifestyle that displaces nature at a very large scale? | |
| And what you'll find, most of these elitist leftist environmentalists, people probably like Larry David, by the way, are living a very high footprint lifestyle, even as they're giving money in this effort to buy off the guilt or the shame that they experience to try to save the planet with their dollars, even though they're destroying it with their lifestyle. | |
| And by the way, I'm not against people donating money to the NRDCs, so don't get me wrong. | |
| I think it's great to support non-profit causes that you believe in, but it's more important to be authentic in the way you live. | |
| And I'll even tell you, I don't live a perfectly environmental lifestyle either, but I'm a lot closer to it than those people I just described. | |
| I don't live in a big mansion. | |
| I've barely put any miles on a vehicle. | |
| I don't burn a lot of fossil fuels. | |
| Driving up and down the roads. | |
| I don't wipe out nature to build a big homestead. | |
| I don't spray pesticides on the lawn. | |
| I grow a considerable portion of my own food, not as much as I'd like to, but I developed a food-rising food system. | |
| We grow our own lettuce. | |
| We've got fruit trees and nut trees, figs. | |
| We grow a lot of our own figs as well, pomegranates, things like that. | |
| Even some citrus, by the way. | |
| We live a lifestyle that is authentic in growing a lot of our own food and avoiding the chemical pesticides and herbicides and so on. | |
| And Yet, it's not good enough, in my mind, to be a true environmentalist. | |
| In other words, a true environmentalist wouldn't even be online. | |
| They wouldn't have a computer. | |
| Because the computer contains circuit boards that are made with toxic heavy metals. | |
| So if you're listening to this online, you're in the same boat with me. | |
| Neither one of us are perfect environmentalists. | |
| We can't be because we own computers. | |
| If you have an iPhone... | |
| Forget it. | |
| You have a little toxic device there made in a slave labor camp in China with probably all kinds of toxic pollutants coming out of those factories and foundries over there. | |
| You're not an environmentalist either. | |
| You can't be. | |
| Not really. | |
| You can fake like it. | |
| You can kind of move in that direction, but you can't really say you're a true environmentalist if you're walking around with an iPhone and driving a car around Los Angeles or New York, living in a big house, eating food that's brought in from South America. | |
| You know, sorry, I don't buy it. | |
| You don't qualify. | |
| Again, we can all try to move in that direction, and none of us are ever going to be perfect in that direction, but let's be honest and realize that just to be alive and be a human today means you are displacing some amount of nature just by existing. | |
| Just by eating your lunch, you're displacing some amount of nature. | |
| So I hope you make an effort to protect nature and protect life, which is what I do to the greatest extent I can. | |
| That's really the philosophy of environmentalism. | |
| All right. | |
| More to come here on the Health Ranger Report, the Counterthink edition. | |
| Stay with me. |
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