 So we're not that far into summer yet, but already there's a lot of cost for concern I mean here in the Pacific Northwest We just got over a record-breaking heatwave where power cables were melting and some roads We're literally buckling under the heat and I want to share this photograph taken from my mom's backyard So as you can see there's this tree and the bushes it looks like they were hit with a flamethrower I mean all of this is the aftermath of multiple days of triple digit heat in an area where this isn't very common and Let me remind you that it was less than a year ago when the Pacific Northwest also experienced insane wildfires Where our air quality was literally hazardous as a result of said wildfires for multiple days And I remember being indoors and you know not wanting to open the door at all But still regardless if you stayed inside you could smell the smoke through your home So all of this in the Pacific Northwest is climate related, but that's just what's happening here If you zoom out and see the broader impact of climate change abroad the picture gets a lot more grim Climate change is now cited as a likely cause for animals shrinking. Yes, you heard that correctly I said shrinking which is very likely going to push certain species towards extinction Scientists in British Columbia attribute the death of approximately one billion title creatures to a climate induced heat wave Ocean acidification and marine heat waves are killing off coral reefs at alarming rates And just last week the Gulf of Mexico was on fire As a result of an underwater pipeline bursting climate change is Destroying our planet and yes, it is anthropogenic it is being accelerated by human activity And just a hundred global corporations account for the overwhelming majority of greenhouse gas emissions And I really want to put this into perspective for people This is our only home Earth is the only habitable planet that human beings have access to we're not going to be able to terraform mars fast enough to save ourselves We're not going to terraform venus Before we terraform earth We're not going to be able to find a different planet in some distant solar system This is what we have if we lose this planet We lose everything It's over for humanity and a lot of other species So the time to act is long overdue But yet as all of the evidence is right in front of us as we see the impact of climate change in our own lives now You have fossil fuel funded ideologues on the right who are actually claiming you know what all of this that we're seeing It's not that big of a deal. In fact global warming is good actually because it saves lives This is what denis prager right wing propagandist said with a straight face on his radio show And um, let's take a look and see what he has to say because he actually does maintain that climate change global warming specifically is good Hey, denis great great observations your question. Are they serious? Um about tiny houses or men and the women's room or degrowth or depopulation I had a conversation with a guy this weekend an atheist who believes the world is overpopulated And I asked him that same question. Are you serious? Are you sincere? What is your level of commitment because if you're committed to degrowth and depopulation You need to off yourself to show me that you're truly committed and he laughed at me They just want everyone else to live by these standards and they themselves will fly in jet planes live in large houses and reproduce While their centralized command and control by intellectuals Continues to be a failure. Well, that's al gore. You've just described al gore with his And a lot of these leading environmentalists Flying in private jets using far more energy than anybody else. I happen not to care If there's one one piece I'd like you to read From the year 2021 it's Bjorn Lomborg's piece that just came out In the la times amazingly. No no usa today amazingly and how So many fewer people are dying because of climate than ever before Because the the great killer is cold not heat So global warming has actually been saving lives But the left doesn't care about saving lives They care about disrupting civilization Because of the deep boredom in their soul That comes from the religionless Lives that they were raised with That's what it is Give me purpose I was raised with none I'm sorry, but who listens to this? Dennis Prager nearly put himself to sleep with this dry partisan drivel And he's saying things just nonchalantly that are deeply deeply destructive. He's getting his viewers to think Oh, well this global warming thing I keep hearing about actually. It's good So understand how conservatives keep moving the goalpost at first they say climate change isn't real Then they say it's real, but you know, it's uh, it's not man-made then they say yeah, it's real and it's probably man-made But you know what it's good There's a reason why they keep moving the goalpost. It's because they're wrong and what we saw there Was not an argument All republicans Do is they try to what about is a everything right or they try to hypocrisy burn People who are actually concerned with climate change or real issues I mean listen to what the caller said he said he talked to an atheist who was concerned with overpopulation And he said that the atheist wasn't actually serious about overpopulation because he hadn't killed himself Is this someone who we're supposed to take seriously Dennis Prager didn't point out how idiotic that was no because Dennis Prager thinks that that's actually a really persuasive way to argue What's this you care about climate change? Oh, well, I see that you drive a car. I see that you ride in airplanes Gotcha, you participate in society. Therefore you can't critique society Again, it's not like individual decision-making is what's going to change Anything with regretted climate change when just a small handful of corporations are the ones who are driving this phenomenon But still the way that republicans think about this and and speak about this is incredibly incredibly dangerous and irresponsible And it's not because Dennis Prager actually believes that global warming is good because he would be a stupid person to believe that He is funded by the fossil fuel industry. Therefore his views have been corrupted By the fossil fuel industry If you accept millions of dollars from fossil fuel oligarchs and oil barons Then yeah, that might have a little bit of an influence on your opinions as it relates to climate change And then he adds in The left doesn't care about saving lives the person who thinks global warming is good says this The left doesn't care about saving lives. They care about disrupting society Because of the deep boredom in their soul and notice the irony here He talks about the boredom that the left feels as he's like almost asleep as he describes How global warming is good. What a fucking idiot And he claims that the reason why we're bored and we have boredom in our souls is because we live Religionless lives that we're raised with and to advocate for climate change and to want to basically disrupt society Is our way of getting some sense of purpose Okay Well The same is true for you except substitute disrupting society with getting money because You're literally parroting the talking points of people who fund your program So does the money give you purpose? I mean, I don't know what it is I don't need to actually address motives to me. That's a non sequitur here The issue is that global warming is not good. Actually global warming is going to kill everyone But old fucks like danis prager He's not going to be around to see the worst of what climate change has to offer His grandchildren will if he has any all of the children who he's trying to indoctrinate Now well, and they'll realize once it's probably too late that everything that he's saying is a lie But this is deeply harmful To say that this destructive thing that we're desperately fighting against to save the species and many species not just humans is good Is so beyond the pale that nobody should take this lunatic seriously You can tell he doesn't even take himself seriously because he almost put himself to sleep there I did I did I did recovery mode my brain I did Recovery mode my brain I did