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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I just got done walking my kid to school and
walking back with the other one while riding his bicycle.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
You can hear all the traffic and the kid.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
God bless moms, Yes, God bless moms. Oh, my gosh,
speaking of moms. God bless Mother Earth. It's Earth Day
and I don't care. I don't care. I love this planet.
I want to care for it. I want clean air,
I want clean water. But this glorification of a planet
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as some sort of deity is absurd. Man has dominion
over the Earth and the planets and the animals that
inhabit it, and we should be good stewards. But I
think we ought to stop with the worshiping.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
But we won't.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
A renewable resource. You don't want to waste a renewable
resource that you know for you know, Warehouser plants trees
all the time. We got tree we got and there's
even non tree paper out now. Earth Day, Oh my gosh,
why do we do this? What is it about Earth Day?
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When the first Earth Day was held, you know that
April twenty second, nineteen seventy. The founders were US Senator
gay Lord Nelson, a Democrat from Wisconsin, and an environmental
activists Environmental Waco one of the original cognents of the
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Church of the Climate Activists, Dennis Hayes, and they said
that its purpose was to draw public attention to what
was at the time the deteriorating environment in the United States.
We just be fair in making that assessment of this
country's environmental situation fifty five years ago. Nelson and Hayes
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probably weren't entirely wrong, because compared to today, the air
and the water were, Yeah, probably I'm filt, not filthy,
but maybe dirty, not as clean as it could be,
not perfect, because they'll never be perfect. Cars at the
time nineteen seventy still ran on leted gasoline. They spewed
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massive amounts of particulate matter into the air every time
you drove them. The Cuihoga River, which ran through Pittsburgh,
it really was so filthy with pollution from all the
oil refineries and all the raw sewage that it literally
did catch fire in nineteen sixty nine, and that set
off a blaze that provided I kind of remember this.
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Weeks of visuals on the networks. Oh no, there were
no cable channels but CBS, NBC, and ABC every evening
on the evening news when we all gathered around generally
at the same time and watched the same you know,
twenty two minutes of news coverage saw the Cuyahoga River
burning up. Then in January of that same year, an
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oil platform offshore Santa Barbara caused a major oil spill.
It leaked I think around three million gallons of oil
into the Pacific. It ultimately washed up on all the
adjacent beaches and at that time was the largest single
oil spill in US history. In nineteen seventy was also
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the era of Richard Nixon, and we had, Honestly, I'm
trying to be objective here, we really did have lax
environmental regulations. We had lax air quality. We had poor
air quality throughout the United States. It wasn't it wasn't
deadly like it is in some countries, but it was
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poor and it was a horror show in many parts
of the country, especially areas that were home to oil refineries,
coal fire power plants, heavy industrial plants, manufacturing plants. And
that was the reality. And in addition to that reality,
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force were truly disappearing because of overlogging. There was an
array of major animal species recognizable to most Americans, bald eagles, grizzlies,
gray wolves, whooping cranes, others. I can't think of all
of them that had been not extinct, but they were
being depleted to the point where their survival as a
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species had become truly endangered. So amid all of that
environmental degradation, that was the first Earth Day. Unfortunately, the
Earth Day movement quickly fell prey to the congregants of
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the Climate Active Church, of the Climate activists. And what
were they doing, Well, they were looking to sell books.
They were uh, there were there were all these conflict
groups that were organized. They were just wanting to raise
millions of dollars some naive donors by and they would
do that by promoting the most scary, frightening filled scenarios
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that they could possibly concoct. For example, some of the
most absurd claims were cataloged by Mark Perry, a senior
follow at the American Enterprise Institute, in April of twenty twenty.
Some some of those absurd claims. When when you when
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you think about absurdity, I'm talking about true absurdity, he wrote.
Let's see here are some examples. Harvard biologists George Wald
estimated that now, remember this is written in twenty twenty
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based on the claims made in nineteen seventy. This is
twenty twenty five. Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that civilization
will end within fifteen or thirty years unless immediate action
is taken against problems facing mankind. Yep, here we are.
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It's a gorgeous day out too. And I drove a
gas guzzling BMWM sport that got me here in a zip.
Washington University biologists Very Commoner wrote in the Earth Day
issue of the journal Environment, quote, we are in an
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environmental crisis that threatens the survival of this nation and
of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.
I don't know, dragon, Have you stepped out on the
balcony this morning?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Not yet, No, but I have seen and it looks beautiful.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
It's beautiful out today.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Probably it's on the cool side, since it's still early.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Yeah, by the time I go walk the dogs, it'll
be in the seventies again, it'll be gorgeous, and then
we'll have a blizzard tomorrow. So you know, maybe this
typical April and.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Colorida, Colorado.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Yeah. The New York Times got in on the Act
in an editorial, man must stop pollution and conserve his resources,
not merely to enhance our existence, but to save the
human race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction. I find
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that one kind of funny because I kind of think
that's kind of what the congregants in the Church of
the Climate activists really want, and that is human extinction.
But I digress. The fourth one he wrote about was
and this came from the April nineteen seventy issue of
Mademoiselle Dragon. Do you still get Mademoiselle?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Say it again?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Do you still get the magazine Mademoiselle? Does missus Redbeard
read Mademoiselle?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I've never heard of that one.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
You've never heard of Mademoiselle?
Speaker 4 (08:32):
No? Is it like, is it a Playboy or something?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Right there? No, it's a it's a it's a it's
a woman's fashion and beauty magazine.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Good Housekeeping?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
No, No, it's it's it's I mean, that's kind of
what I would expect you to read as Good Housekeeping.
If you were more upity, you'd read in Mademoiselle. Oh,
and I don't even know if it's still in existence anymore.
But In nineteen seventy, Mademoiselle wrote, quoting Paul, or population
will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies.
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We can make the death right really increase until at
least one to two hundred, one hundred to two hundred
million people per year will be starving to death during
the next ten years. Well that was way off, wasn't it.
Let's see. Paul Erlick also write in an essay titled
Eco Catastrophe, most of the people are going to die
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in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have
already been born by nineteen seventy five, just five years
from when he wrote this. Some experts feel that feel, oh,
they feel they feel that food shortages will have escalated
the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines
of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate
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food populition population collision will not occur until the decade
of the nineteen eighties. But it was but that food
population collision didn't really occur until Dragon started putting on weight,
and then he realized what he was doing to the earth,
and he decided to drop the weight and save the planet.
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You're welcome, Thank you welcome, Yes, thank you for saving
the planet. Let's see Dennis Hayes, one of the organizers
along with the Senator this.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Article jump into peak oil too, because that was a
really big thing in the seventies that were going.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I don't remember where the peak oils in the in
the list here, Well, look, maybe it is. Let's see
Dennis Hayes, one of the chief organizers of Earth Day,
in the spring issue of The Living Wilderness wrote it's
already too late to avoid mass starvation. Now let's pause
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for a moment, because remember this is the nineteen seventies,
when your news came from your daily newspaper, sometimes of
morning daily and an afternoon daily. It came from the
New York Times, of the Washington Post and the La Times.
It came from the major newspapers. It came from the
magazines that you got in the mail once a week,
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and it came from the three networks. So everybody was
getting exactly the same information, the same bull craft, the
same propaganda. It's already too late to avoid mass starvation.
I ate pretty damn well over Easter, ate pretty well
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yesterday too. Peter Gunter Who's north Texas State University professor
wrote in nineteen seventy this. Demographers agree almost unanimously on
the following Graham timetable. All Right, you ready, I remember,
just in case you're asleep, today is Tuesday, April twenty second,
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Earth Day twenty twenty five, so, this professor wrote in
nineteen seventy these these are so funny. Demographers agree almost
unanimously on the following Grim timetable. By nineteen seventy five,
widespread famines will begin in India. These will spread by
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nineteen ninety fifteen years later to include all of India, Pakistan, China,
the Near East Africa, and then just a mere decade later,
by the year two thousand, or conceivably sooner, South and
Central America will exist under famine conditions. And then by
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the year two thousand, twenty five years ago or thirty
years from then, the entire world, with the exception of
Western Europe, North America and Australia, will be in famine.
How's Europe doing? How's Japan doing? South Korea? Well, North
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Korea will forget about North Korea. How's China doing? China
seems to Vietnam's doing pretty well, South America, they're doing
quite well. Yeah, let's see Life magazine, which everybody got.
Life Magazine reported in January of nineteen seventy the first
Earth year or Earth Day year. Scientists have solid, solid,
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experimental and theoretical evidence. Do you get those adjtives experimental
and theoretical evidence to support the following predictions? In a
decade or by nineteen eighty, urban dwellers will have to
wear gas mask simply to survive air pollution. Did you
wear your gas mask this morning on the way to work?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I completely forgotten. I nearly died.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
That's why you sound. Yeah, see I wore because I
keep redundant gas masks around.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Two are just better than one.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
You know what, That's exactly right. Have blue gas masks.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Those common sense?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
You've got thicse little blue gas mask?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
All right?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Where was I they that threw me off? In a decade, so,
by nineteen eighty, urban dwellers will have to wear gas
masks to serve air so to survive air pollution. By
nineteen eighty five, air pollution will have reduced the amount
of sunlight reaching Earth by one half. Damn. It's right
out there for the sun to be half gone. Ecologist
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Kenneth Walt told Time magazine, another magazine that everybody got,
you know, once a week, you got Time magazine. At
the present rate of nitrogen build up, it's only a
matter of time before light will be filtered out of
the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.
My god, it's like dystopian future in the nineteen seventies,
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and here we are twenty twenty five, fifty five years later,
pretty damn nice outside today. Barry Commoner predicted that decaying
organic pollutants will use up all of the oxygen in
America's rivers, causing fresh water fish to suffocate.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
So when you go to Whole.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Foods today to buy your fresh fish, there won't be
any because it's all John and then Paul Early chimed in,
predicting in nineteen seventy that air pollution is certainly going
to take hundreds of thousands of lives just in the next.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Few years alone.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
By nineteen seventy three, two hundred thousand Americans would die
during small disasters, solely in LA and New York.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
So what is the truth?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Where are we now?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Good morning, Michael, Good morning Dragon, Michael. I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I really like the way you're talking. Right now. We
all know that we have to trust the science, and
scientists are always right.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I just thought i'd remind you, all right, see you.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Do you hear that noise?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Who's calling you a tax? A?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Text? Was that? Is that your Is that.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Your ankle monitor going off?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
The ankle monitor going off? Your ring tone? What?
Speaker 4 (16:21):
What?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
What was it? What was it?
Speaker 5 (16:23):
What was it?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
I believe it's not because remember it was they feel
that this is true. They believe this is true. So
I tried to find any statements so far from the
President of the United States of America, but I couldn't
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find anything. So instead I went to the only one
that I could find that's recent. There's nothing, there's nothing
we can't do together because we are the United States
of America. Don't you missing? Don't you miss the old
part or the United Nations?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
On birthday? We must stand for all planets.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
A planet is threatened by climate change, by pollution, by
biodiversity loss, A planet that needs to be rescued.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
So we must unite and we must mobilize.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I went to a planet that must be rescued. I
don't I'm sorry to say I don't have a Bible
here in the studio. I'm embarrassed by that. But God
created the heavens and the earth and all that dwell
with therein. And somehow this heathen seems to think that
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man can rescue that which God has created, that it's
not set in motion, that the planet will you know,
the planet wis devour us. I would play the George
Carlin clip that he does about Earth Day about how
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you know, the Earth doesn't care about us, The Earth
doesn't care at all. The Earth will swallow us up.
It does it all the time. How many you know,
I'm always fascinated by the number of people that are
killed in the back country. You know, they get killed
by an avalanche. They're cross country skiing, or or they're
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downhill skiing and they're they're from Kansas and they go
slamming into a tree you know, sixty miles an hour
and break their you know, they break their neck and
die out there on the slope somewhere. Or we've got
you know, the wolves that are hungry, so they're going
to go eat a cow, or you watch you know
anything about nature and the earth is just it's going
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to do what What's going to do, and if it
had the chance, he would swallow us up in a heartbeat.
And George Carlin puts it so well. But the arrogance
to think that somehow we are going to rescue God's creation.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
So we must unite and we must mobilize all our
efforts for climate action, to protect biodiversity, and to support
all those namely the indigenous communities that are teaching us
how to take care of planet persons.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Brought to you by the United Nations in that special
makes me feel so good when the United Nations tells
me what I need to do so not to be
So you're going through all of these predictions.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Real click.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Speaking of predictions, I do love some of these text
messages that came in from Oh yes, ninety two thirty two, Mike,
we survived acid rain.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
That's right. I forgot about it. And then that was Yeah,
that's interesting because I wasn't listed in one of the
fifteen yeah that the American Enterprise Institute wrote about in
twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Because I was a significant was a scary thing. Yeah,
I was a kid. I was afraid. It's like, if
it's raining outside, I cannot go outside.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Because I'm just burned off right.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Uh, then this one's also a good one. From seventeen thirteen.
I still remember when we were able to live above ground.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Wow, those were the days where those were the days? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yeah, But thank goodness Elon Musk came along with his boring,
boring comedy. Yeah, and now we can just travel underground
wherever we need to go. Or if you live in Minneapolis,
you can go outside in the winter all the time.
Just go from building the building and never and never
be exposed to the elements. Downtown Oklahoma City the same
thing they got the underground in Oklahoma City. It's it's
amazing how we just have learned to live outside or
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to even condition the inside that we live in. So
fifty years later we're doing pretty good. In fact, here
we are fifty five years later and most of the
species remain among the living, which is a blessing. We
discover new species all the time. They may not be
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like giant wooly mammoths, but we discover new species. And
it often gets left unsaid. But that and the other
improvements to Americas in the world's environment can be in
part attributed to at least give some credit to the
attention raising efforts that were spurred into action by that
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very first Earth Day. See, I can be objective because
our air and water are vastly cleaner than they were
in nineteen seventy and anybody that says otherwise is frankly
lying to you. It is cleaner out there. If you've
lived in Colorado for as long as I have or longer,
you know that the brown cloud has pretty much dissipated.
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And that's because, thank goodness, we've got the air Check
Colorado that checks, you know, the tailpipe emissions, which, for
you know, ninety nine point of all cars always pass.
So I'm not sure why we're testing emissions anymore, but
it certainly makes you feel better, doesn't it. And then
Dragon mentioned recycling, and your point about recycling I thought
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was well, not brilliant, but let's just say it was interesting.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yeah, I brought it off off air, and I was
curious as to why all of us gen xers haven't
even revolted and rised up against this, because we were
told from a very young age if we do not recycle,
we are all doomed. So we've been doing that. We've
been conditioned to do so, and apparently we're still all doomed,
still all doomed.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
And now the dirty little secret about recycling has come
out and we know that well it's not really recycled.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
But it makes me feel good.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
It makes you feel good. It's like everything. It's like
it's like TSA's Kubooki security. It makes you feel.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Good, it feels safe.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Yeah, it's all about our feelings. At our feelings. So
we do have cleaner air and cleaner water. It's not
even close. In fact, let's put it in perspective. Our
air and water are so much cleaner that the hucksters,
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the congregates in the Church, of the climate activists, the
conflict groups, they were actually forced to draw advocacy about
what I would consider to be real pollution and shift
over to what CO two because they got to keep
the money, They got to keep the drift going. They
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got to make certain that we still remain afraid that
now a naturally occurring gas necessary for the very existence
of life on this planet is a pollutant and we've
got to eliminate it. I watched I didn't even think
to look this up, but last night on the news
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they had Mayor Mike Johnston, I had no clue why
he was talking about this, but he was. You know,
he's got his big buffoon hair and he's, you know,
talking all excited about how we're converting everything to electricity
because that's how Denver is going to reduce emissions. And
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I thought, Dear God, please let a reporter ask, well,
where's the electricity coming from? Did you not just shift
the emissions out to the eastern plane somewhere or to
rural Colorado? And because electricity still requires something to create
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the electricity, and even the items that you claim are
renewables still require fossil fuels to create the solar panels
to create the wind turbines. So shut up and sit down,
because the grift keeps on going. So while we and
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I do I love to make fun of birthday, I
really do enjoy doing it. But the reality is we've
actually cleaned things up.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Now.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Wouldn't it be nice if we could just convince all
of the congregants in the Church of the climate activists
that hey, you know what, there's clean and then there's
the perfect that we will never attain. So why don't
we just be happy where we are and let innovation
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and new technology take let the free market determine how
clean is clean?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Can you get Goober's like me who grew up in
middle and no Or Nebraska, and we didn't have trash service,
so we just put it in the burn barrel and
burn trash once a week. So recycling was a foreign
concept to us until like college.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Interestingly, we used to do that in New Mexico at
the Endisclosed location. We had a fifty five gallon drum,
you know, like an old you know, barrel oil barrel
oil drum that we kept in back up against the river,
and we would take all the trash out and it
was the grandkids all loved Hey, kids, you want to
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go out and burn the trash.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
It was bonfire tome, it was.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
And it was you know, the smoke would just billow
up out of that barrel and you know, the plastics
and everything would just burn, and I'd say, stick your
head in there and just inhale all that, all those tops,
and it'll be good for you when you grow up.
And then at some point they said you can't do
that anymore, and they gave us lousy, crappy trash service
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that's like, you know, two miles near the end of
the road and they have yet to put really good
bear proof bends in. In fact, I've written a letter
of the county commissioners that have as if it's it
is an empty threat. I'm not going to pay my
bill to the county until you put bear proof trash
bends in. Of course I get no response, and then
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I'm reminded of since its Earthday, I checked on the
I finally checked on the other day because I've been
carrying a stupid note my pocket for a week now.
After I gave my speech in Chicago, this little tiny
professor walks up to me, and of course she has
her mask on dragon because you know, you never know,
you never know. And she gets up to me and
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she goes because she's the one that said, you know,
since climate change is causing disasters to occur more often
and be more severe, and she was directing it me,
and I said, as I've tried to teach all of you,
I said to her quite bluntly, well, I disagree with
the premise of your question. Climate change is not making
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disasters more intense or more frequent. Although I do believe
the climate change is, I just don't think it's anthropogenic.
So she came up to me afterwards, as as I
told you last week, and she handed me this little
tip of paper with this professor's name on it and
a course that I should take about how it will
teach me and convince me that climate change indeed is
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anthropaginny and it's mostly caused by man and only a
small tiny amount is is natural. So yesterday, in preparing
for Earth Day today, I decided to look up so
I googled the professor and the course, and I looked
it up and it is It's an online course that
you can take, and so I went through the syllabus
and everything else, and it's just like, oh my god,
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I could rip that apart so easily with just just
Google stats, just pure old Google stats. Yet that's the
kind of crap that continues the grift. Do I go
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back to my point earlier. In many ways, what we've
done to clean up the mess that we were making
has been wonderful. But at some point it's like us
facing the question, you know, discussing, well, what if there's
a dirty bomb that goes off, you know, post nine
to eleven on the mall in d C. And my
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question to the EPA was well, depending on the prevailing winds,
how long before we could you know, reinhabit that area.
And of course they start talking about cleanliness and how
how much radiation can we accept and I'm like, well,
how much radiation is naturally occurring and any amount above that,
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how much is actually dangerous to us? And they couldn't
give an answer, mean that it would never be clean
enough to ever inhabit again in the in the history
of mankind. And I just looked at them like, you're
just you're idiots, You're just idiots. To celebrate our day
to day, Yeah, go out and drive your car. Are
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next to block
I just got done walking my kid to school and
walking back with the other one while riding his bicycle.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
You can hear all the traffic and the kid.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
God bless moms, Yes, God bless moms. Oh, my gosh,
speaking of moms. God bless Mother Earth. It's Earth Day
and I don't care. I don't care. I love this planet.
I want to care for it. I want clean air,
I want clean water. But this glorification of a planet
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as some sort of deity is absurd. Man has dominion
over the Earth and the planets and the animals that
inhabit it, and we should be good stewards. But I
think we ought to stop with the worshiping.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
But we won't.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
A renewable resource. You don't want to waste a renewable
resource that you know for you know, Warehouser plants trees
all the time. We got tree we got and there's
even non tree paper out now. Earth Day, Oh my gosh,
why do we do this? What is it about Earth Day?
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When the first Earth Day was held, you know that
April twenty second, nineteen seventy. The founders were US Senator
gay Lord Nelson, a Democrat from Wisconsin, and an environmental
activists Environmental Waco one of the original cognents of the
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Church of the Climate Activists, Dennis Hayes, and they said
that its purpose was to draw public attention to what
was at the time the deteriorating environment in the United States.
We just be fair in making that assessment of this
country's environmental situation fifty five years ago. Nelson and Hayes
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probably weren't entirely wrong, because compared to today, the air
and the water were, Yeah, probably I'm filt, not filthy,
but maybe dirty, not as clean as it could be,
not perfect, because they'll never be perfect. Cars at the
time nineteen seventy still ran on leted gasoline. They spewed
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massive amounts of particulate matter into the air every time
you drove them. The Cuihoga River, which ran through Pittsburgh,
it really was so filthy with pollution from all the
oil refineries and all the raw sewage that it literally
did catch fire in nineteen sixty nine, and that set
off a blaze that provided I kind of remember this.
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Weeks of visuals on the networks. Oh no, there were
no cable channels but CBS, NBC, and ABC every evening
on the evening news when we all gathered around generally
at the same time and watched the same you know,
twenty two minutes of news coverage saw the Cuyahoga River
burning up. Then in January of that same year, an
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oil platform offshore Santa Barbara caused a major oil spill.
It leaked I think around three million gallons of oil
into the Pacific. It ultimately washed up on all the
adjacent beaches and at that time was the largest single
oil spill in US history. In nineteen seventy was also
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the era of Richard Nixon, and we had, Honestly, I'm
trying to be objective here, we really did have lax
environmental regulations. We had lax air quality. We had poor
air quality throughout the United States. It wasn't it wasn't
deadly like it is in some countries, but it was
(04:03):
poor and it was a horror show in many parts
of the country, especially areas that were home to oil refineries,
coal fire power plants, heavy industrial plants, manufacturing plants. And
that was the reality. And in addition to that reality,
(04:24):
force were truly disappearing because of overlogging. There was an
array of major animal species recognizable to most Americans, bald eagles, grizzlies,
gray wolves, whooping cranes, others. I can't think of all
of them that had been not extinct, but they were
being depleted to the point where their survival as a
(04:47):
species had become truly endangered. So amid all of that
environmental degradation, that was the first Earth Day. Unfortunately, the
Earth Day movement quickly fell prey to the congregants of
(05:10):
the Climate Active Church, of the Climate activists. And what
were they doing, Well, they were looking to sell books.
They were uh, there were there were all these conflict
groups that were organized. They were just wanting to raise
millions of dollars some naive donors by and they would
do that by promoting the most scary, frightening filled scenarios
(05:33):
that they could possibly concoct. For example, some of the
most absurd claims were cataloged by Mark Perry, a senior
follow at the American Enterprise Institute, in April of twenty twenty.
Some some of those absurd claims. When when you when
(05:56):
you think about absurdity, I'm talking about true absurdity, he wrote.
Let's see here are some examples. Harvard biologists George Wald
estimated that now, remember this is written in twenty twenty
(06:22):
based on the claims made in nineteen seventy. This is
twenty twenty five. Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that civilization
will end within fifteen or thirty years unless immediate action
is taken against problems facing mankind. Yep, here we are.
(06:44):
It's a gorgeous day out too. And I drove a
gas guzzling BMWM sport that got me here in a zip.
Washington University biologists Very Commoner wrote in the Earth Day
issue of the journal Environment, quote, we are in an
(07:08):
environmental crisis that threatens the survival of this nation and
of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.
I don't know, dragon, Have you stepped out on the
balcony this morning?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Not yet, No, but I have seen and it looks beautiful.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
It's beautiful out today.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Probably it's on the cool side, since it's still early.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Yeah, by the time I go walk the dogs, it'll
be in the seventies again, it'll be gorgeous, and then
we'll have a blizzard tomorrow. So you know, maybe this
typical April and.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Colorida, Colorado.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Yeah. The New York Times got in on the Act
in an editorial, man must stop pollution and conserve his resources,
not merely to enhance our existence, but to save the
human race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction. I find
(08:01):
that one kind of funny because I kind of think
that's kind of what the congregants in the Church of
the Climate activists really want, and that is human extinction.
But I digress. The fourth one he wrote about was
and this came from the April nineteen seventy issue of
Mademoiselle Dragon. Do you still get Mademoiselle?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Say it again?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Do you still get the magazine Mademoiselle? Does missus Redbeard
read Mademoiselle?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I've never heard of that one.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
You've never heard of Mademoiselle?
Speaker 4 (08:32):
No? Is it like, is it a Playboy or something?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Right there? No, it's a it's a it's a it's
a woman's fashion and beauty magazine.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Good Housekeeping?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
No, No, it's it's it's I mean, that's kind of
what I would expect you to read as Good Housekeeping.
If you were more upity, you'd read in Mademoiselle. Oh,
and I don't even know if it's still in existence anymore.
But In nineteen seventy, Mademoiselle wrote, quoting Paul, or population
will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies.
(09:06):
We can make the death right really increase until at
least one to two hundred, one hundred to two hundred
million people per year will be starving to death during
the next ten years. Well that was way off, wasn't it.
Let's see. Paul Erlick also write in an essay titled
Eco Catastrophe, most of the people are going to die
(09:30):
in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have
already been born by nineteen seventy five, just five years
from when he wrote this. Some experts feel that feel, oh,
they feel they feel that food shortages will have escalated
the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines
of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate
(09:54):
food populition population collision will not occur until the decade
of the nineteen eighties. But it was but that food
population collision didn't really occur until Dragon started putting on weight,
and then he realized what he was doing to the earth,
and he decided to drop the weight and save the planet.
(10:14):
You're welcome, Thank you welcome, Yes, thank you for saving
the planet. Let's see Dennis Hayes, one of the organizers
along with the Senator this.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Article jump into peak oil too, because that was a
really big thing in the seventies that were going.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I don't remember where the peak oils in the in
the list here, Well, look, maybe it is. Let's see
Dennis Hayes, one of the chief organizers of Earth Day,
in the spring issue of The Living Wilderness wrote it's
already too late to avoid mass starvation. Now let's pause
(10:51):
for a moment, because remember this is the nineteen seventies,
when your news came from your daily newspaper, sometimes of
morning daily and an afternoon daily. It came from the
New York Times, of the Washington Post and the La Times.
It came from the major newspapers. It came from the
magazines that you got in the mail once a week,
(11:14):
and it came from the three networks. So everybody was
getting exactly the same information, the same bull craft, the
same propaganda. It's already too late to avoid mass starvation.
I ate pretty damn well over Easter, ate pretty well
(11:36):
yesterday too. Peter Gunter Who's north Texas State University professor
wrote in nineteen seventy this. Demographers agree almost unanimously on
the following Graham timetable. All Right, you ready, I remember,
just in case you're asleep, today is Tuesday, April twenty second,
(11:56):
Earth Day twenty twenty five, so, this professor wrote in
nineteen seventy these these are so funny. Demographers agree almost
unanimously on the following Grim timetable. By nineteen seventy five,
widespread famines will begin in India. These will spread by
(12:17):
nineteen ninety fifteen years later to include all of India, Pakistan, China,
the Near East Africa, and then just a mere decade later,
by the year two thousand, or conceivably sooner, South and
Central America will exist under famine conditions. And then by
(12:37):
the year two thousand, twenty five years ago or thirty
years from then, the entire world, with the exception of
Western Europe, North America and Australia, will be in famine.
How's Europe doing? How's Japan doing? South Korea? Well, North
(12:59):
Korea will forget about North Korea. How's China doing? China
seems to Vietnam's doing pretty well, South America, they're doing
quite well. Yeah, let's see Life magazine, which everybody got.
Life Magazine reported in January of nineteen seventy the first
Earth year or Earth Day year. Scientists have solid, solid,
(13:21):
experimental and theoretical evidence. Do you get those adjtives experimental
and theoretical evidence to support the following predictions? In a
decade or by nineteen eighty, urban dwellers will have to
wear gas mask simply to survive air pollution. Did you
wear your gas mask this morning on the way to work?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I completely forgotten. I nearly died.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
That's why you sound. Yeah, see I wore because I
keep redundant gas masks around.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Two are just better than one.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
You know what, That's exactly right. Have blue gas masks.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Those common sense?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
You've got thicse little blue gas mask?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
All right?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Where was I they that threw me off? In a decade, so,
by nineteen eighty, urban dwellers will have to wear gas
masks to serve air so to survive air pollution. By
nineteen eighty five, air pollution will have reduced the amount
of sunlight reaching Earth by one half. Damn. It's right
out there for the sun to be half gone. Ecologist
(14:30):
Kenneth Walt told Time magazine, another magazine that everybody got,
you know, once a week, you got Time magazine. At
the present rate of nitrogen build up, it's only a
matter of time before light will be filtered out of
the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.
My god, it's like dystopian future in the nineteen seventies,
(14:54):
and here we are twenty twenty five, fifty five years later,
pretty damn nice outside today. Barry Commoner predicted that decaying
organic pollutants will use up all of the oxygen in
America's rivers, causing fresh water fish to suffocate.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
So when you go to Whole.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Foods today to buy your fresh fish, there won't be
any because it's all John and then Paul Early chimed in,
predicting in nineteen seventy that air pollution is certainly going
to take hundreds of thousands of lives just in the next.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Few years alone.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
By nineteen seventy three, two hundred thousand Americans would die
during small disasters, solely in LA and New York.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
So what is the truth?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Where are we now?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Good morning, Michael, Good morning Dragon, Michael. I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I really like the way you're talking. Right now. We
all know that we have to trust the science, and
scientists are always right.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I just thought i'd remind you, all right, see you.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Do you hear that noise?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Who's calling you a tax? A?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Text? Was that? Is that your Is that.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Your ankle monitor going off?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
The ankle monitor going off? Your ring tone? What?
Speaker 4 (16:21):
What?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
What was it? What was it?
Speaker 5 (16:23):
What was it?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
I believe it's not because remember it was they feel
that this is true. They believe this is true. So
I tried to find any statements so far from the
President of the United States of America, but I couldn't
(16:46):
find anything. So instead I went to the only one
that I could find that's recent. There's nothing, there's nothing
we can't do together because we are the United States
of America. Don't you missing? Don't you miss the old
part or the United Nations?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
On birthday? We must stand for all planets.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
A planet is threatened by climate change, by pollution, by
biodiversity loss, A planet that needs to be rescued.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
So we must unite and we must mobilize.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I went to a planet that must be rescued. I
don't I'm sorry to say I don't have a Bible
here in the studio. I'm embarrassed by that. But God
created the heavens and the earth and all that dwell
with therein. And somehow this heathen seems to think that
(17:53):
man can rescue that which God has created, that it's
not set in motion, that the planet will you know,
the planet wis devour us. I would play the George
Carlin clip that he does about Earth Day about how
(18:14):
you know, the Earth doesn't care about us, The Earth
doesn't care at all. The Earth will swallow us up.
It does it all the time. How many you know,
I'm always fascinated by the number of people that are
killed in the back country. You know, they get killed
by an avalanche. They're cross country skiing, or or they're
(18:35):
downhill skiing and they're they're from Kansas and they go
slamming into a tree you know, sixty miles an hour
and break their you know, they break their neck and
die out there on the slope somewhere. Or we've got
you know, the wolves that are hungry, so they're going
to go eat a cow, or you watch you know
anything about nature and the earth is just it's going
(18:59):
to do what What's going to do, and if it
had the chance, he would swallow us up in a heartbeat.
And George Carlin puts it so well. But the arrogance
to think that somehow we are going to rescue God's creation.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
So we must unite and we must mobilize all our
efforts for climate action, to protect biodiversity, and to support
all those namely the indigenous communities that are teaching us
how to take care of planet persons.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Brought to you by the United Nations in that special
makes me feel so good when the United Nations tells
me what I need to do so not to be
So you're going through all of these predictions.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Real click.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Speaking of predictions, I do love some of these text
messages that came in from Oh yes, ninety two thirty two, Mike,
we survived acid rain.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
That's right. I forgot about it. And then that was Yeah,
that's interesting because I wasn't listed in one of the
fifteen yeah that the American Enterprise Institute wrote about in
twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Because I was a significant was a scary thing. Yeah,
I was a kid. I was afraid. It's like, if
it's raining outside, I cannot go outside.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Because I'm just burned off right.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Uh, then this one's also a good one. From seventeen thirteen.
I still remember when we were able to live above ground.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Wow, those were the days where those were the days? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yeah, But thank goodness Elon Musk came along with his boring,
boring comedy. Yeah, and now we can just travel underground
wherever we need to go. Or if you live in Minneapolis,
you can go outside in the winter all the time.
Just go from building the building and never and never
be exposed to the elements. Downtown Oklahoma City the same
thing they got the underground in Oklahoma City. It's it's
amazing how we just have learned to live outside or
(20:53):
to even condition the inside that we live in. So
fifty years later we're doing pretty good. In fact, here
we are fifty five years later and most of the
species remain among the living, which is a blessing. We
discover new species all the time. They may not be
(21:15):
like giant wooly mammoths, but we discover new species. And
it often gets left unsaid. But that and the other
improvements to Americas in the world's environment can be in
part attributed to at least give some credit to the
attention raising efforts that were spurred into action by that
(21:37):
very first Earth Day. See, I can be objective because
our air and water are vastly cleaner than they were
in nineteen seventy and anybody that says otherwise is frankly
lying to you. It is cleaner out there. If you've
lived in Colorado for as long as I have or longer,
you know that the brown cloud has pretty much dissipated.
(21:58):
And that's because, thank goodness, we've got the air Check
Colorado that checks, you know, the tailpipe emissions, which, for
you know, ninety nine point of all cars always pass.
So I'm not sure why we're testing emissions anymore, but
it certainly makes you feel better, doesn't it. And then
Dragon mentioned recycling, and your point about recycling I thought
(22:20):
was well, not brilliant, but let's just say it was interesting.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yeah, I brought it off off air, and I was
curious as to why all of us gen xers haven't
even revolted and rised up against this, because we were
told from a very young age if we do not recycle,
we are all doomed. So we've been doing that. We've
been conditioned to do so, and apparently we're still all doomed,
still all doomed.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
And now the dirty little secret about recycling has come
out and we know that well it's not really recycled.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
But it makes me feel good.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
It makes you feel good. It's like everything. It's like
it's like TSA's Kubooki security. It makes you feel.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Good, it feels safe.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Yeah, it's all about our feelings. At our feelings. So
we do have cleaner air and cleaner water. It's not
even close. In fact, let's put it in perspective. Our
air and water are so much cleaner that the hucksters,
(23:20):
the congregates in the Church, of the climate activists, the
conflict groups, they were actually forced to draw advocacy about
what I would consider to be real pollution and shift
over to what CO two because they got to keep
the money, They got to keep the drift going. They
(23:41):
got to make certain that we still remain afraid that
now a naturally occurring gas necessary for the very existence
of life on this planet is a pollutant and we've
got to eliminate it. I watched I didn't even think
to look this up, but last night on the news
(24:02):
they had Mayor Mike Johnston, I had no clue why
he was talking about this, but he was. You know,
he's got his big buffoon hair and he's, you know,
talking all excited about how we're converting everything to electricity
because that's how Denver is going to reduce emissions. And
(24:23):
I thought, Dear God, please let a reporter ask, well,
where's the electricity coming from? Did you not just shift
the emissions out to the eastern plane somewhere or to
rural Colorado? And because electricity still requires something to create
(24:47):
the electricity, and even the items that you claim are
renewables still require fossil fuels to create the solar panels
to create the wind turbines. So shut up and sit down,
because the grift keeps on going. So while we and
(25:09):
I do I love to make fun of birthday, I
really do enjoy doing it. But the reality is we've
actually cleaned things up.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Now.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Wouldn't it be nice if we could just convince all
of the congregants in the Church of the climate activists
that hey, you know what, there's clean and then there's
the perfect that we will never attain. So why don't
we just be happy where we are and let innovation
(25:37):
and new technology take let the free market determine how
clean is clean?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Can you get Goober's like me who grew up in
middle and no Or Nebraska, and we didn't have trash service,
so we just put it in the burn barrel and
burn trash once a week. So recycling was a foreign
concept to us until like college.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Interestingly, we used to do that in New Mexico at
the Endisclosed location. We had a fifty five gallon drum,
you know, like an old you know, barrel oil barrel
oil drum that we kept in back up against the river,
and we would take all the trash out and it
was the grandkids all loved Hey, kids, you want to
(26:20):
go out and burn the trash.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
It was bonfire tome, it was.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
And it was you know, the smoke would just billow
up out of that barrel and you know, the plastics
and everything would just burn, and I'd say, stick your
head in there and just inhale all that, all those tops,
and it'll be good for you when you grow up.
And then at some point they said you can't do
that anymore, and they gave us lousy, crappy trash service
(26:44):
that's like, you know, two miles near the end of
the road and they have yet to put really good
bear proof bends in. In fact, I've written a letter
of the county commissioners that have as if it's it
is an empty threat. I'm not going to pay my
bill to the county until you put bear proof trash
bends in. Of course I get no response, and then
(27:08):
I'm reminded of since its Earthday, I checked on the
I finally checked on the other day because I've been
carrying a stupid note my pocket for a week now.
After I gave my speech in Chicago, this little tiny
professor walks up to me, and of course she has
her mask on dragon because you know, you never know,
you never know. And she gets up to me and
(27:30):
she goes because she's the one that said, you know,
since climate change is causing disasters to occur more often
and be more severe, and she was directing it me,
and I said, as I've tried to teach all of you,
I said to her quite bluntly, well, I disagree with
the premise of your question. Climate change is not making
(27:52):
disasters more intense or more frequent. Although I do believe
the climate change is, I just don't think it's anthropogenic.
So she came up to me afterwards, as as I
told you last week, and she handed me this little
tip of paper with this professor's name on it and
a course that I should take about how it will
teach me and convince me that climate change indeed is
(28:15):
anthropaginny and it's mostly caused by man and only a
small tiny amount is is natural. So yesterday, in preparing
for Earth Day today, I decided to look up so
I googled the professor and the course, and I looked
it up and it is It's an online course that
you can take, and so I went through the syllabus
and everything else, and it's just like, oh my god,
(28:37):
I could rip that apart so easily with just just
Google stats, just pure old Google stats. Yet that's the
kind of crap that continues the grift. Do I go
(28:57):
back to my point earlier. In many ways, what we've
done to clean up the mess that we were making
has been wonderful. But at some point it's like us
facing the question, you know, discussing, well, what if there's
a dirty bomb that goes off, you know, post nine
to eleven on the mall in d C. And my
(29:18):
question to the EPA was well, depending on the prevailing winds,
how long before we could you know, reinhabit that area.
And of course they start talking about cleanliness and how
how much radiation can we accept and I'm like, well,
how much radiation is naturally occurring and any amount above that,
(29:39):
how much is actually dangerous to us? And they couldn't
give an answer, mean that it would never be clean
enough to ever inhabit again in the in the history
of mankind. And I just looked at them like, you're
just you're idiots, You're just idiots. To celebrate our day
to day, Yeah, go out and drive your car. Are
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