#071 - Rupert Read - Politics Broke the Climate Change Debate

Shockingly bad from this 'philosopher'. Facts, he says, ignoring the fact that we were all supposed to be under water by now.

Ooof, someone’s got the moral high ground again. He always keep on referencing „the majority“. 9 out of 10 people agree it’s not gang rape. The majority is heavily influenced by all this climate catastrophism. There’s no such thing as settled science. Every fundamental building block of modern science is just one well-designed experiment away from its total collapse. If there‘s no argument to be made and no opposition to be heard, it’s not science, it’s propaganda.

This guy sucks don't waste your time.

Great to see a bit more variation in opinions on the show! I think Rupert’s right on a lot of things and definitely coming at the issue with a smarter perspective around building more resilience in our communities and not getting distracted by arbitrary targets. Some of his takes ( such as on AI and nuclear) were pretty awful IMO. Climate change as a physical phenomenon is very real and measured, and ultimately the result is more volatility in the climate, which means more volatility in weather extremes. At the end of the day that is it. In my perspective it is important to treat as a key issue for the future but it’s perhaps in the top 20 issues amongst many other things, it’s not the dramatic end of civilisation that seems to be creeping in under certain ideological lenses. It doesn’t mean severe weather events will get worse, there’s more nuance to it. It means that the probability of severe weather events could increase. Severe weather is already a risk and has been for all of our existence. We DO need to improve our resilience to them as a species, same way we improve our livelihood in myriad other ways with technology. As Rupert touched on, the answer is to focus on improving community resilience to all sorts of potential future scenarios, whether that’s increasing local energy security, local food security, local flood resilience etc, but not because of a fear of an abstract future of climate but because it is sensible and beneficial today to do that. I don’t agree that we should be trying to get rid of fossil fuel sources in favour of wind and solar, I think as a species we should be trying to harness all energy sources as aggressively as possible. Building strong, energy dense, powerful, advanced civilisations will naturally make us more resilient to the impacts of bad floods or changing climate.

Couldnt help but disconnect as soon as he tried to make a relation between Valencia floods and climate change as if the exact same thing hadnt happened 50 years ago, Valencia was redesigned to deal better with floods back then and all the flooded area was knowm for the posibility to have floods. If you are right on your claims there is no need to lie.

Hahaha, still spouting the climate bullshit. I taught Science 25 years ago, told the kids that Pacific islands would all be underwater within 15 years. What a load of crap. They don't want to control climate change, you can't. They just want us poor so we welcome communism.