 Early in November, the United Nations had COP26 on climate change. And one of the things I find particularly shocking about it is the argument that basically, well, everybody knows this is a problem. So we just have to do something. Yeah. And in the economist, Zannie Minton, Beto's editor in chief wrote it this way. What's more, the science diplomacy, activism and public opinion that support cops make them the best mechanism in the world has to come to terms with a fundamental truth. The dream of a planet of almost 8 billion people all living in material comfort will be unachievable if it is based on economy powered by coal, oil and natural gas. Until that message sinks in the task is to bring about bold prompt action from willing countries in Europe and elsewhere that others cannot fuss frustrate. Forget the science. Just slap it to, you know, I just, I'm shocked that that they're convinced, even without evidence that we have to go. I don't know. It makes no sense that intelligent people, as I think the economist writers are. It makes no sense that intelligent people like that can't see the complete put aside again put aside the science even if you agree with their science can see the unbelievable fallacy that is involved here. The idea just just in terms of science and in terms of economics idea that you can go off fossil fuels fast enough to make a difference by the standard of their models. Not suffer massively economically is just voodoo. It's just wishful thinking. It's it's it's it's completely making stuff up. It has no connection to reality zero. It's just not tenable. You know, if you look at the Great Britain right now, they are going to struggle to to to warm the cities in winter this year and prices are going to go through the roof. And they've got real problems and they're becoming going to become more and more dependent on the Russians and all of that, all the bad stuff. They're sitting there at the economists magazine and saying, No, we're still using too much fossil fuel. We need to use this and what's the alternative more windmills in the North Sea, which we've shown that the wind actually doesn't blow quite that much more solar panels in one of the places on earth that is most cloudy. And of course solar panels don't work at night. And of course, the batteries to store the electricity so you can get it at night by their own standards use more carbon to produce and to create then then it does burning, burning natural gas. So by every standard, by their own standards by their own math by their own science by their own technology by their own everything, they're they're completely out of liars or completely blinded by the need to fit in and and say what's expected and be like everybody else and not get Greta to wag her finger at them. I mean, they admit that they're having problems because of this windmill policy. Yeah, they say we need more windmills. Yeah, but this is, look, it's like, it's like, you know, it's like politicians in America saying, Yeah, I mean, there's no question that if you think about it, the national debt is a dragon economy. Let's increase it. You know, the national debt is unsustainable. But let's increase it. I mean, both Republicans and Democrats say that. Democrats who are more centrist to think the national debt actually matters still vote to spend more and more and more Republicans who when they're in the opposition think the national debt is a real problem. As soon as they get into power, spend more and raise the national debt. So the ability of people to completely evade reality in order to fit in or in order to sustain power, or in order to satisfy the whims, or in order to just, I don't know, you know, it's hard for me to understand how a mind like that works is just, is just infinite because here we have smart people that have to know that what the saying is complete nonsense. I mean, there was a really good op-ed somewhere. It might have been the mostly general somewhere else by I think the president of Kenya, Uganda, one of those African countries basically saying, look people, if you force us to move to so-called renewable energy, or as Alex Epstein likes to call them unreliable energy sources, we're going to stay poor forever. There's no way an African country can rise up from poverty using unreliables. This is the Africans telling them this. It doesn't matter. They just are blind to it. They don't want to hear it. They don't want to listen to it. They completely self-belued themselves, completely. In their quest, I don't know to what, to fit in, to follow the religion, I guess. It's a religion now, the religion of climate change, the religion of hatred of fossil fuels. And there must be voters within the UK who hate what's going on, but everyone supports that policy. So what do you do? I mean, it's not like you vote for the guy that says, hey, tear the windmills down and let's bring in all the coal we can. I think Brits was surprised that Boris Johnson was as far left as he was in these issues. And his whole party voted with him. So these are the conservatives who are bringing about the death of energy in the UK. The UK is becoming a net importer of energy from France, because the French of all people have the common sense, the decency to use nuclear power. And they have a surplus and therefore they can export electricity to the UK. But it's not particularly efficient under the channel to export electricity, but that's actually what they're doing. So it's just bizarre. The Germans doubling up on, so they shut down the nuclear power plants, which caused them to have to restart coal power plants, all with the goal of going to windmills and solar panels. That resulted in increased CO2 emissions, not decreased. And they're doubling up on that. And the biggest up poser of nuclear power in the world right now are the Germans, who's just lived through a failed experiment at every political party who ran for the German election recently was against using nuclear power. So it's like reality doesn't matter to these people. It has no standing in their mind. It's mind boggling. There's just no reality. Facts don't matter. This is Plato on steroids in some politicized, weird, unnatural combination. You know, I don't know. It's just bizarre. I cannot really cannot explain it. I agree with you completely. All I can say is I know he may not have a lot to say. Bring Alex back again. It's a message that just isn't out there very much. No, no. Well, the next thing is as Alex has pointed out is there is an attire seems to be an attire movement now talking about this. A lot of people talking about nuclear. There are a lot of new authors talking about the impossibility of getting rid of fossil fuels. So there are more authors that are picked up on the themes that Alex is proposing. There are more CEOs of relatively small oil companies and oil and gas companies who are standing up. There is an impact. It's just, you know, it's just tiny at this point relative to everything else. It's very difficult to compete with every school and every university and every intellectual and every politician. And that's the real problem. They're right. They're training the kids before they have any idea what any of it means they're brainwashing them in effect to say, oh, you know, climate change is going to kill us. They're training kids to do two things. 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