Dennis Prager Show - To Stop Climate Change: Cut Energy Use 90% and Fly Once Every 3 Years
Aired: 2021-07-06
Duration: 02:16


=== Cut Energy Use by 90% (02:14) ===

[00:00:01]  Okay, 1-8 Prager 776. Most defrightening article of the weekend, and that's saying something.
[00:00:13]  It's from Reason Magazine.
[00:00:16]  To stop climate change, Americans must cut energy use by 90%, live in 640 square feet, and fly once every three years, says the study.
[00:00:32]  There are a lot of people who would sign on to this.
[00:00:36]  Needless to say, it starts in academia.
[00:00:39]  In order to save the planet from catastrophic climate change, Americans will have to cut their energy use by more than 90%.
[00:00:46]  And families of four should live in housing no larger than 640 square feet.
[00:00:54]  640 square feet is 20 by 30. Family of four should live in a place 20 by 30. So 4 into 600 is 150. So per person, it's 150 square feet.
[00:01:14]  So it's pretty much a jail cell of space.
[00:01:19]  Are these people serious?
[00:01:21]  You read this article.
[00:01:23]  You think they're serious?
[00:01:26]  So the professors who came up with this, they would like that?
[00:01:31]  To live with three others in 650 square feet?
[00:01:41]  That's according to a team of European researchers led by University of Leeds.
[00:01:45]  By the way, I attended University of Leeds.
[00:01:48]  Sustainability researcher Yefim Vogel.
[00:01:52]  In their new study, socioeconomic conditions for satisfying human needs at low energy use, in global environmental change, they calculate that public transportation should account for most travel.
[00:02:05]  They hate the car.
[00:02:07]  The left hates the car.
[00:02:10]  Yeah, it uses energy, and worst of all, gives people freedom.