 What you're gonna see is in the Western world you're gonna see people Starting to suffer because of an agenda they don't quite understand They can handle the heat They can handle changes in the weather The ancestors have been handling changes in the weather for a long time and as we'll talk about we're better suited to handle those Changes now than ever in all of history But they're gonna expect it to suffer they're gonna be expected to sacrifice for whom? For the quote climate For people in Africa supposedly who might have a too hot for the residents of the Maldives Who might be flooded although they haven't been yet, but might be maybe one day who knows For Some vague notion of it's gonna get warmer It's gonna get hot you all gonna boil to death in the name of millennial hysteria panic Armageddon type thinking and most people unfortunately Accept that Until it really starts biting it still till it really starts hurting their pocketbook until they realize that they are expected to bear the cost of theories and ideas and Consequences that they don't really understand and that are being pitched and being articulated by You know elites in the country by the wealthy and primarily the educated in the country that Will only bear a small part of the cost of this because or Maybe that's not right. They'll bear a cost that they can afford to pay the cost To them. It's a slight hit To the lower middle class in the working class It's a devastating hit and This really drove the yellow jackets if you remember in France, it was a cost of gasoline a Cost of gasoline because of new restrictions around climate change that the French government is imposed and these people saying look we We live in a country we drive a lot You're wiping out our profits You're wiping out our livelihood. We can't survive if we have to pay this much for gasoline for our trucks for our tractors for traveling and You high-falutely intellectuals in powers. You might not feel it You don't drive that much, but we do this is a livelihood and as The Western world adopts more and more and more of these kind of suicidal high-cost low-growth or negative growth policies more and more and more of its poorest I mean when we're not talking about the welfare poor we're talking about the working Middle-class low middle-class working class people people who work for living They're gonna start looking around saying wait a minute. Why are we being sacrificed? For whom and for what? We're not buying this And this is why you get the rise of kind of right-wing populism all over the world Why you get the rise of the working class are going from being leftist to being rightists? Because you know people on the right, you know have lots of problems But at least on many of these environmental issues at least so far They seem to be better and the popularity of populist rightist movements is Growing among the lower middle class among the working class because of this and that's why by the way the the right is Moving left and economic issues Because that's what its constituency this new constituency this working-class low middle class wants them to be pro welfare state pro you know Govern intervention They're not a capitalist that they much more close to the socialist But on social issues and certainly on environmental issues they tend to be more on the right So it's this complete realignment of our politics We saw this in America with with a lot of people used to vote Republican now voting Democrat A lot of people used to vote Democrat primarily working-class people voting Republican post Trump We saw it in the UK. We're now the North the industrial North the working-class North Used to be the stronghold of labor the stronghold of the of the socialists It is now the stronghold of Brexit not because those people change their minds in terms of the economic policy Now because they change their minds in terms of the role of government in the economy but because they changed their minds about immigrants because Because they they didn't identify with the left with regard to immigrants and they don't identify with the left with regard to environmentalism although The conservative movement has moved so far to the left on environmentalism. I'm not sure there's a difference between left and right in the UK on that issue I Am I'm starting to like the idea of Liz trust trust I think her name is as being the next Prime Minister. She at the very least admires Margaret Thatcher and claims that she wants to have policies like her. I say give her a chance. I mean the other guy Sunek I think Is too much of a moderate middle-of-the-road stand for nothing guy trust at least claims. She's gonna rule She's gonna govern From a Margaret Thatcher perspective. So that's let's give her a chance. She says that let's see Okay back to Holland to the Netherlands Did you know did you know that the Netherlands have a hundred million hundred million? Cattle chickens and pigs. I mean how many of you've ever I know how many of you've lived Being to the Netherlands being to Amsterdam or driven around the Netherlands. I mean the Netherlands a tiny country I know it's the size of Rhode Island. Maybe it's a little bit bigger than Rhode Island. It's a small country flat much of it Below sea what is sea sea level? That's where they have dykes Justin says he's in from the Netherlands. Is he in the Netherlands or is he from the Netherlands? He's trying to have it both ways Netherlands has a hundred million Cattle chicken and pigs Justin how many people live in the Netherlands? He's from the Netherlands, but I guess you don't live there anymore. Justin. Where do you live now? So now there's this tiny right Netherlands is tiny Danny's also from the Netherlands so Danny What's the population there the 17 million chef said you have basically you have what? Six Cow's chickens and pigs to every human being in the Netherlands like I always make fun of New Zealand because there's so many more Sheep than human beings when you see it is nothing as compared to As compared to the Netherlands where it's not cheap it's cattle chickens and pigs, but a hundred million God. That's a big number Anyway, it turns out that When the cattle chicken and pigs Poop is that the technical term when they poop and the manure Is sped around and then if they when they urinate on that manure What happens and I hope nobody's eating dinner right now, but what happens when you do that when you urine you combine urine and manure What you get is ammonia Which is a nitrogen compound? Deficates that's a that's a that's a good one when they defecate and then they piss on that what they defecated something like that Anyway, what you get is this nitrogen compound and ammonium, right? Unfortunately, this you know this excess nitrogen this nitrogen By the way very good for the soil. I think it's a good. It's a good fertilizer, but it runs off into the rivers and lakes and supposedly damages sensitive natural habitats Who is natural habitat? Okay Netherlands is sixteen thousand square miles. I don't know how big that is, right? So you get the some onia and it runs off into the into the rivers and Sensitive, you know, it supposedly damages sensitive natural habitats now. I wonder is it the natural habitat of human beings is The natural habitat of snails Is it that I don't know who's natural habitats it is, but it's natural habitat It turns out that there's a court ruling that says that In order for new housing units to be built in the Netherlands in order for them to be new developments The economic real estate development in the Netherlands this Nitrogen has to be cleaned has to be reduced and I guess the government has passed a law that you know This has to happen the courts have appellated no new construction until this happens So the government has decided that they are going to they demand that the farmers shrink the size of their animal light livestock Population by 30% 30% All right, sorry, so Netherlands is 10 times larger than Rhode Island It's still smaller like I've driven through it. I've driven from Amsterdam to Brussels. How long is that two and a half hours? I mean, it's it's So that's from the Netherlands into into Belgium It's a small country Although, you know, Maastricht is like that away. So yeah, I mean, it's I don't know For our drive in every direction five hour drive in every direction and you cover the whole thing It's also by the way has the highest Density What did I read this? Right as a highest livestock density in in in the world in Europe in Europe. All right Yeah, it's wow Puerto Rico is is double the size of Rhode Island Yeah, well, you can do you can do the whole of Puerto Rico in a day. You can suck them never get the island in a day Anyway, so the farmers have to reduce the the livestock by 30% in order to reduce the flow of nitrogen a few reduced the flow of ammonia and the farmers are saying And I have to do it now Not in 10 years not by 20 30 have to do it now and they're like you people are nuts the fact is The fact is that you will destroy our livelihood We can't survive under those terms and That's what the demonstrations That's the demonstrations now You know, this is consistent Across Europe you're gonna see more and more of these kind of things You know Netherlands is a farming place They say more than half of livestock farms are either gonna have to shut down or they're gonna slim down significantly and The government is just saying tough You know, we've got we have to shrink by 30% you guys do it you guys You guys are responsible for for the nitrogen you have to do it. I'm sure you know The farmers are saying some industry they should participate. Is anybody really challenging the whole idea of doing this? I also wonder sometimes why is the Netherlands? Why does it have so much livestock? What if that has to do with government policy? That would be interesting It would be interesting to dig deep into kind of the agricultural policy in the Netherlands and how much of it is really This is the comparative advantage and and note that Netherlands is a is a an amazing country I don't know how much of the history of the Netherlands, you know, but but the Netherlands were really the first Country I'm stemming the first city. Well, not the first the first in the modern times To really be based on trade based on Free trade Based on letting people, you know make money. It was the first environment in which Making money was viewed positively in in the Christian era I you know the rich was celebrated if you look at Art Dutch art from the 16th and 17th century You see merchants being painted you see still lives that that present as these glorious You know layouts of stuff People were in compared to people everywhere else in the world including elsewhere in Europe was super rich Emstam was the place that had probably the most freedom of speech most of the Radical books that were published in Europe were published in the Netherlands and then distributed to other countries from there often through a kind of underground of Forbidden books That's better for all of Europe, but the hub was the Netherlands. I mean Amsterdam is this amazing amazing place I know some of you can't get beyond the prostitutes, but Prostitution is legal in in many places in Europe. There's nothing unique about Amsterdam in that respect Amsterdam has this unique feature of having the prostitutes sit in windows so you can choose them in advance. It's weird fairly disgusting But kind of weird in a you know interesting kind of way It's it's worth going to see because it's so strange, but as time is definitely Was the bastion of kind of free thought free publishing free speech? Not that it wasn't repressive. I mean just a spinosa But you could get away with it and and they weren't gonna burn you to stake it was It was a place that you escaped to like lock escaped there when he was afraid of persecution in England It but it was also a trading place in in a sense one of the first cities that embraced markets embraced capital, you know speculative markets embraced insurance markets and embraced global trade. It was the first place to completely embrace globalization from a trade perspective and and with a positive attitude towards it not as We're gonna go to these countries and get as much gold out of them like the Spanish and Portuguese basically went and Their primary focus was on war materials and particularly gold and silver The Dutch were traders and they they were the facilitators of trade throughout the world so what happened in the end is that Spain in spite of discovering all that gold got poorer and poorer and All the money all the gold Actually flowed to the free markets of the time relative free markets of the time and that was to Holland in England They got super rich a Spain and Portugal got relatively poor Just interesting natural resources don't make you rich Tell that to Putin and the Russians they still haven't learned that this Anyway, I digress why did I got into the history of the Netherlands because Netherlands is a beautiful country an amazing country But I wonder why it's so agricultural. I wonder if there's some Something in the regulations something in the way Agriculture is regulated in the Netherlands that makes it maybe it's subsidized Maybe they don't allow corporate farming. I you know, it's just interesting anyway massive demonstrations thousands of farmers in front of the Hague are all through this year So this started in February and he's been continuing and yet You know, there's There's little Little that the government is willing to do and a lot of farmers are gonna go bankrupt A lot of farms are gonna shut down and the remaining farmers are gonna are gonna have a harder time making a living It's interesting that 70% of the product that is that is grown On these farms including the chickens the beef and the and the and the prigs In the milk and the cheese 70% of that is for export and And part of the thing that the environmentalists are saying right is the attitude that we export 70% we export the goods And we keep the rubbish wait. We keep the pollution but of course, you know you manufacture manufacturing has waste But manufacturing bring in brings in capital it brings in livelihood so I Mean this perspective is that's always the case The waste is where the stuff is made, but there's a big push now for agriculture to be local Not to export not to import food should be local Part of the big move against globalization and global trade so Farmers are protesting and again, we're gonna see more and more of this because The environmentalist movement is not interested in human beings It's not interested in our prosperity. It's not interested in our livelihood It's not interested in making our lives better. It's not interested Ultimately in making the word cleaner for us or safer for us What they want to do and and you can see this in Germany, and I think the most the most I Mean the most strongest expression of this The strongest expression of the fact that environmentalists don't care about human beings. They don't care about Electricity they don't care About a quality of life in our standard living They don't care how many people are gonna have to die of starvation How many people I have to die because of weather-related causes? They don't care about any of these things and the biggest indication of that is That they're anti-nuclear Because think about it right now There's that big there was a heat wave that went through Europe and a lot of people died of heat stroke By the way, I think it's like five times more people maybe ten times more people die every year Because of exposure to the cold then due from exposure to the heat It's even though a lot of people died this year because of the heat in Spain and in France In other places around Europe many many many more of them will die if there is a You know really really cold front and a real blizzard cold for human beings is far more dangerous than heat But what is the solution? To heat and and look even if even we do everything in the environment is safe And let's accept all their models and let's accept that the world is heating and we have to stop using fossil fuel Let's say we stop fossil fuels tomorrow Their models don't predict that we're gonna get a lot harder So what about all those people who are going to die from the excess heat? Do they care? Of course not They don't care one aorta. They don't care about human beings Because they did they would be the biggest pushes the biggest cheerleaders for nuclear power For massive investment in nuclear power in nuclear power in enough nuclear power To be able to provide a conditioning to every human being on the planet earth At least in Europe where they live the Europeans of them I Mean the solution to heat waves is a AC It's a see everywhere. Let's get electricity cost down. Let's make them cheap and let's make the electricity ubiquitous. Let's make it electricity so abundant That everybody has as much as they want of it and then everybody has a see So why is it then a problem of the globe warms a little bit or a little bit more? I mean as I've said before people live in Las Vegas in Phoenix, Arizona in Tijuana and Guadalajara, Mexico places that are hot really hot so innovate in the production of electricity not solar and wind intermittent Unreliable don't work at night Which is absurd Thank you for listening or watching the Iran book show if you'd like to support the show We make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening. You get value from watching Show your appreciation. 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