July 16, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
06:22
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| So let's begin with the first part of it. | |
| What is the panic part? | |
| So the panic part is really that people are vastly exaggerating the scares on climate change. | |
| So let's just get one thing real. | |
| Climate change is a real challenge, and it's one that we should fix smartly. | |
| But right now, and I think increasingly over the last couple of years, people have gone to extreme lengths of being worried. | |
| So we have a lot of young people. | |
| Who are desperately afraid. | |
| The Washington Post showed that 57% of all school kids or adolescents are now worried about climate change. | |
| They're afraid of climate change. | |
| And if you ask adults across the world, it turns out that almost half of all adults in 28 countries across the world believe that it's likely global warming will lead to the extinction of the human race. | |
| So remember, this is not saying global warming is a problem, which is true, and which is what the UN Climate Panel tells us. | |
| They're actually saying this is the end of the world. | |
| That's why, you know, so many are now saying it's an existential crisis. | |
| That's just simply rubbish, and it's not what the UN Climate Panel is telling us. | |
| And, of course, being scared witless doesn't make for good decision-making. | |
| I want to repeat that. | |
| You said 50% of adults. | |
| Did I get that right? | |
| 48% yes. | |
| 48% of adults worldwide? | |
| Yes, and 4 out of 10 in the US. So you guys are a little bit less worried, but not very much. | |
| Well, if it's 40% in the US, 40% of adults in the United States of America believe that there is an imminent doom to humanity because of the climate change. | |
| Among other things, it's hard to imagine that Joe Biden wouldn't win the election. | |
| I mean, just on that alone. | |
| I mean, vote for the man who will save humanity. | |
| And that's, of course, why politicians love climate change, because it gets you to say, not only is the world ending, but I will promise to save you. | |
| That's the most wonderful thing you can do when you're a politician, and then especially if you get to say, and in climate, you do. | |
| You get to say, I will save you, and the price tag is going to come in the next election cycle. | |
| So, when they quote IPCC, the UN Commission Council on the Climate Panel, are they quoting, they meaning the panic-inducers, that is politicians and media, are they quoting them accurately? | |
| Well, they quote a lot of stuff. | |
| So some of it they're quoting accurately, but clearly there is no mention in the U.N. climate panel about this being the end of the world. | |
| They actually and explicitly said that in about 50 years, so in the 2070s, the impact of global warming will be negative. | |
| That's why it's a problem. | |
| But it will be equivalent to each one of us losing somewhere between 0.2 The fundamental point here is to recognize this is a problem, but it's not the end of the world. | |
| And I think most people also fail to recognize that the UN expects each person on the planet to be 2.63 times richer than he or she is today by 2075. So what they're basically saying is instead of us being 2.63 times richer by 2075, we will only be 3.56 times richer. | |
| Yes, we'll be slightly less much richer in 2075 because of Global One. | |
| That is a problem, but that is not by any... | |
| Stretch of the imagination, the end of the world. | |
| It's not, shall we say, existential. | |
| The book, ladies and gentlemen, is False Alarm, and it's required reading. | |
| So what do you say? | |
| I want to throw at you the best-known arguments. | |
| Look at the glaciers in the Arctic and Antarctic. | |
| What do you say to that? | |
| Well, so glaciers are receding, not so much in much of the Antarctic, but they are receding in many places, and that shows global warming is real, and it also is, in the long term, a real problem. | |
| So this is what the UN Climate Panel is telling us. | |
| There is a problem, but we've got to stop saying, and then we're all going to die. | |
| Because making that leap, making that very, very simple story that obviously sells a lot more clicks. | |
| Basically makes it impossible to have a sensible conversation about what we should do. | |
| If you think the world is ending, you're going to throw everything in the kitchen sink at it. | |
| If you realize that it's a problem among many others, you also realize we need to conserve our scarce resources. | |
| We need to find smart solutions that are cost-effective, that will actually help the future rather than make it worse. | |
| All right. | |
| I will return with Bjorn Lomborg. | |
| The book is up at DennisPrager.com. | |
| And the book is False Alarm. | |
| 1-8 Prager 776. If you are an alarmist, why don't you make a call here? | |
| 1-8 Prager 776. When I think of what was done to the economies of America and the world because of the lockdown, added to what the next panic will do, If Joe Biden wins, I cannot see how the economy of this country can survive. | |
| We shall return momentarily. |
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