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Dec. 19, 2023 - Dennis Prager Show
08:37
Leftist Parent Won't Buy Christmas Presents Because of Climate Change
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Daily Mail has a piece by a woman.
Why I refuse to buy any gifts this Christmas.
And doting grannies and aunties can't either.
So I'm going to ask my producer right now, since he has a good read on humanity, what do you think her reasoning is?
Her primary.
She has a number of reasons.
The primary reason.
Well, the safe answer is always to say global warming.
You're right.
That's it.
Well, no, I'll read it first.
All I want you to know is he got it right, and he prefaced it with, the safe answer is always to say...
Now, maybe people are thinking it's safe to say consumerism.
The left always has isms.
Everything is an ism.
Okay, but that's a secondary feature.
Last year, surrounded by wrapping paper and abandoned gifts, I suggested to my husband, Chris, that next time we shouldn't buy anything for each other or the children.
Not to buy kids gifts for Christmas?
Isn't our whole angel appeal that your incarcerated parent will give you a gift?
Oh my God.
Not buying anything for my husband is trivial because he can buy it for himself.
That's fair.
I don't think you need to buy it for your spouse.
I agree with that.
But not buying presents for our two girls, age 6 and 3, is a trickier proposition.
We're increasingly aware of the global impact of our purchases.
That's it.
You got it, man.
You know what?
What was your thing?
It's safe to say?
The safe answer.
The safe answer, yeah.
So, that may be true about anything.
Why not do X, Y, or Z in each case global warming?
The ruining of the quality of life of humanity, which is, you will see how dramatic it is within a decade, but it has already begun.
Look, the Netherlands wanted to close down its farms.
The greatest exporter of, isn't it the greatest exporter of food in Western Europe?
Yeah, for sure.
Second in the world?
Next to the U.S. They were going to shut down their farms.
That's why the Conservatives did so well in the elections in the Netherlands.
So let's see here.
We're increasingly aware of the global impact of our purchases.
Everything we buy the kids will go into landfill.
There you go.
No gifts, kids, because we're saving the planet.
No cars, folks, because we're saving the planet.
No electricity in great numbers.
We will charge you a vast sum of money and create what is known in Germany as energy poverty because of global warming to save the planet.
What if the planet is not in jeopardy?
Then you're a climate denier.
Notice they never actually answer your point.
We provide really prestigious climatologists and they're not heard.
Both my producer and I have beloved relatives who vote Democrat.
They don't hear any of this.
That's the issue.
As I always say, this is a fact.
Conservatives know what liberals and leftists, this is one time where liberals and leftists have a lot in common, don't know.
They don't read what we read.
They don't hear what we hear.
They don't watch what we watch.
They don't study under whom we study.
But we hear what they hear, we read what they read, we watch what they watch, and we study under them.
We know what they know.
They don't know what we know.
Concerns about material excess at Christmas are as old as the age of consumerism.
But with the planet on fire...
Did you know that the planet is on fire?
I just looked out the window.
Yeah, yes.
There's no sense of hyperbole that you can't exaggerate on the left.
There's no such thing.
That's why I called it existential threat.
In 1990, Al Gore told us we had 12 years, and then it's over.
That was by 2002. Then we had another 12 years.
That was 2014. Then we had another 12 years, and that'll be two years from January 1st.
But it doesn't matter.
that their predictions don't come true doesn't matter with what would the planet on fire and plastics everywhere plastics everywhere You know, they show you this...
Aren't they going back to plastic straws?
Didn't they flirt with paper straws, which is a joke?
You know what paper straws remind me of?
The old joke when I was a kid.
This joke is not said anymore.
No kids hear this.
We would insult each other, which is what boys do.
We would insult each other at summer camp.
One kid would tell a joke and he'd go, you're as funny as a screen door on a submarine.
There's a whole series of you're as funny as.
What was another one?
You're as funny...
Oh yes, you're as funny as a cigarette machine in a cancer ward.
Did you ever hear that one?
Yeah, it was pretty dark.
Yeah, it was pretty dark, yeah.
Anyway, you're as funny as a screen door on a submarine.
That's what, you're as funny as a plastic straw.
Excuse me, as a paper straw.
And so now they're back to plastic straws.
They show you this giant accumulation of plastics in the ocean.
However, they don't show you that in relation to the ocean.
Never.
So of course it looks humongous.
But then if you take a picture of, let's say, the Pacific Ocean, You can't see it.
If you actually see, it's barely a dot.
Yeah.
It seems like we are at a moment of reckoning and have been for some time.
So what do you tell your kids?
No gifts, Christmas kids, because we're worried about plastics and landfills.
What if years from now it turns out to have been wildly exaggerated, like the efficacy of the mRNA vaccine and its safety turned out to be wildly exaggerated, bordering on lies, and then what happens?
Nothing.
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