Apocalypse Never Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

He wrote Apocalypse Never has done on fire. Ted talks ran for government or governor in California, but is not a hard partisan guy.

Here's a little bit from Michael Schellenberger, who's an honest journalist. He's I trust him implicitly. He's been he wrote the book Apocalypse Never on the environment. He started out on the left. He's he came to his views very honestly and he wrote the book San Francisco recently about the homeless crisis, homeless crisis out there, as well as the drug crisis linked, of course.

He wrote Apocalypse Never. He was this left wing activist who worked for Greenpeace, who just devoted his life to fighting climate change and preserving the environment.

He put out a bunch of facts. First of all, even The New York Times is admitting this week solar panels require 300 plus times as much land as conventional energy sources and could, quote, contaminate groundwater with toxic heavy metals such as lead, selenium and cadmium.

They're contaminating contaminating the groundwater. They're taking up way more land than conventional energy sources were.

They also require solar panels, forced labor, toxic materials and have terrible land use impacts.

The New York Times has finally come around to Schellenberger's articles from a year plus ago saying you need to understand that solar panels and batteries have a lot of toxicity associated with them.

This is from Michael Schellenberger who wrote the book Apocalypse Never, which is well worth the time. Number one, no nation has decarbonized its electricity supply with solar and wind. The only successful decarbonization efforts have been achieved with nuclear.

climate change does not threaten the existence of our planet. Deaths from hurricanes have declined 90 percent in 100 years. Deaths from natural disasters are at their lowest level in 120 years.

He's the one pushing for nuclear. He's a true expert. You're not. I've had him on the show repeatedly. You're not an expert on climate change.

He is the one who has written, for example, and I mean, I'll tell you this, climate change does not threaten the existence of our planet.

You know, I mean, I don't know how anybody could see Russian shelling of Ukrainian apartment buildings and the killing of civilians and not want to cut off economic ties with that country.

Europe should not have become so dependent on Russian oil, gas and other energy fuels.

Europe just consumes two to three times more energy than it produces. And Russia exports two to three times more than it produces, depending on the fuel.

Germany has spent lavishly on weather dependent renewables...to the tune of $36 billion a year, mainly solar panels and industrial wind turbines.

Germany produces six times more carbon emissions per unit of electricity as France.

He's the bestselling author of the book Apocalypse Never, which you really, really, really should read if you want to know what's what on climate change.

We've got an honest broker on the program today who wrote the book, Apocalypse Never, Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All.

I in Apocalypse Never I talk about how like has anybody been to the Netherlands?

I in my book I talk about the Amazon and the alarmism around the Amazon

I have a chapter on plastics and we got very close without quite explicitly saying that the reason for all the plastic waste in the ocean was because of rich world consumers trying to recycle their waste.

I'm often I'm in Arizona right now I do not need to stop wearing a sweater in Arizona ever there's really hardly any time where a sweater would ever not need to be worn to your example but in the Midwest that's a different case where I grew up.

And our guest is amazing. Walks you through it really clearly. He authored the book Apocalypse, never really cool character.

And Facebook appoints this group Climate Facts or something to be their police because the government's coming after them for all the nonsense that's on Facebook. So we want responsible scientists to police us and they pick these activists. And they labeled my story as we're not going to show this to many people because this doesn't tell the whole story.

I've viewed, writing, I viewed apocalypse never as cognitive behavioral therapy both for myself and for other people.

And in fact, the highest praise I received from people is to who's told me that they were very depressed about the environment and then they read apocalypse never and they felt much better.

That's one of the things I really liked about it was that in each sub-chapter you drill down at least to some degree to the level of actually actual implementable policy.

So you start with the story about this group and now I should ask you first, who are you exactly to write such a book? Like why do you know this? Why should people listen to you?

This is that's my apocalypse numbers, my second book.

I'm gonna read first apocalypse never

I read Michael Shellenberger's book and it's the only book that's ever, I was not for drug legalization. I still think I'm complicated on it.

It well the argument is that the point that we i start with is just that putin was not deterred by europe or the west from invading ukraine the he did not obviously fear economic sanctions and he would turn out to be right not to fear them because they carved out energy exports which is the main way that russia gets hard foreign currency so yes we've heard a lot about sanctions on banking but as long as europe as long as russia can sell its coal oil and natural gas to europe in the world it's going to continue to build a finance its war finance its economy and the reason for that i point out is that you know just 15 years ago europe produced three times more natural gas than russia currently exports those fortunes have shifted climate activists in europe prevented the expansion of natural gas production including by fracking turns out there's actually quite a bit of shale in europe that it could have been using and it just grew heavily dependent on russia and so in fact the role that russia has in its control over european energy supplies is only going to increase i believe that in the coming months i think it's possible if not probable that president biden will restrict oil exports if he does that that will further strengthen the hand of putin to be able to reward nations that are neutral or supportive of him with oil exports

the west's green delusions empowered putin

putin was not deterred by europe or the west from invading ukraine

climate activists in europe prevented the expansion of natural gas production including by fracking

putin is focused on real politic and i think europe like many in the west were caught up in delusions utopian fantasies of harmonizing human societies with nature through renewables

the whole world is reverting back to national to nationalism and national trading blocks

Michael is written a book Apocalypse Never it's about climate change energy policy and he just wrote a really interesting piece for beria wyce's substack called the west's green delusions empowered putin

I think that we're at the end of an era not just the end of the post-cult war era but really the end of the post-war era and i think putin saw that coming and the west did not