WEBVTT - The Late Debate | 13 February 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.720 Lately, Welcome the Late Debate. 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:08.879 Well, good evening and welcome to the Late Debate James 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:12.240 Macpherson with Liz stra and Caleb Bond coming up tonight. 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:16.200 If you've ever wondered whether we're sending our best into politics, 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:19.080 we've got a video that proves conclusively we are not. 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:21.959 We'll show you that a little later. Plus, when we 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:25.520 look at the papers, a Chinese fighter jet comes dangerously 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:29.120 close to an r DOAAF plane. The Albanzy government has 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:33.360 launched an official protest, and new data reveals just how 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:38.279 few Australians are watching the ABC. Surprise, surprise. We'll talk 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:40.400 about all of that when we get to tomorrow's news. 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:44.360 But first I thought there was like a climate emergency. 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:47.680 Haven't we been told there's a climate crisis? Haven't we 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:50.519 been warned that we only have a few short years 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:53.840 to save the planet. Didn't the Secretary General of the 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:57.400 United Nations tell us we're on a highway to climate hell. 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:00.520 And of course you'll remember in twenty twenty three said this, 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:06.559 the era of global warming has ended. 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:10.240 The eater of global boiling as arrived. 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:14.399 So it's a climate catastrophe. We've got to do something now, 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:17.560 which makes me wonder why out of one hundred and 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:21.440 ninety five countries that signed the Paris Agreement, where they 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:24.640 agreed to limit temperature rises to just one point five 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:28.280 degrees above pre industrial levels to save the planet, do 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:30.360 you know how many of those one hundred and ninety 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:36.240 five countries submitted in time their emission reduction plan to 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:39.280 say what they would do about those reductions by the 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:43.720 year twenty thirty five. Those plans were due in on Monday. 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.040 One hundred and ninety five countries have committed to this. 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:51.280 Ten ten countries got their plans in. One hundred and 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:54.640 eighty five out of one hundred ninety five countries that 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.360 just a bit late haven't got around to it. You know, 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:02.000 technical difficulties, some economic problem. It's coming. It's in the mail. 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:06.600 A dog ate my homework. Ninety five percent of the 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:10.880 countries that signed up to the Paris Agreement didn't bother 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:13.919 getting in their latest report that they all promised they 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:17.280 would on Monday. The thing that gets me about this 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:19.720 is you and I are told we can't eat meat, 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:22.800 We've got to eat bugs. We can't drive V eights anymore, 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:25.399 we've got to drive these electric things, and on and 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:29.000 on it goes to save the planet, and our politicians 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:33.200 demanding all of this from us. They can't even get 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.799 their reports on time, which begs the question how much 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:40.760 do they even really believe this stuff? Of the ten 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:44.600 countries that managed to submit their reports, the US got 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:47.400 theirs in, but only because it was done while Joe 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.440 Biden was still the president. But those that didn't. China, 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:52.760 the biggest emitter in the world, they didn't bother submitting 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.919 their report. India the third biggest emitter in the world, 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.920 they didn't bother but caleble Liz. Guess what other country 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:00.959 of those one hundred and eighty five countries it didn't bother. 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.600 Guess another country on that list of reculcitrants who haven't 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:06.440 quite got their homework in yet straight? 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.680 Would it be one. 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:14.880 Chris Bowen didn't get. Really, I thought. 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:16.440 We would have been on top of this. 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:19.040 I mean, the Uban easy government isn't on top of 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:22.639 much else. But you would have thought, since we're bleeding 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.600 out of very orifice to pay our energy bills in 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:28.560 this nation at the moment, you would have thought Chris 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.480 Bowen would be crossing the t's and dotting the eyes 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:34.440 when it came to handing in his report card to 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:37.920 the UN to say, look, how marvelously we're doing with 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:43.400 regards to our Paris agreements. Like, now that the US 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:47.320 has cooled out of this thing, it is such a 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:52.240 waste of time. How are you collectively going to ensure 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:55.840 that the temperature doesn't rise by two degrees instead of 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:57.160 one point five degrees? 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:59.560 How are you going to do that when the second 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:00.960 biggest emitter in. 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:03.880 The world has been like, you know what, We're not 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.040 participating in this BS anymore. 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.320 And not only have they pulled out of the Paris. 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:14.480 Agreement, but Trump is absolutely delivering on his drill baby, 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:19.480 drill promise. Oh yeah, the war on coal fired power 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:27.320 in America is over. Gas, It's over. Trump loves fossil fuels. 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.800 And we'll get to more from his US Energy secretary 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.960 Al Gore's worst nightmare in a bit. But when you 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:38.760 have the biggest military mit on the face of the planet, 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:42.520 the head honcho of the Western world say, we're not 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:43.880 playing this game anymore. 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:45.120 We don't give a toss. 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:48.120 And not only are we withdrawing, we are putting pedal 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:51.719 to the metal with regards to fossil fuel production. 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:52.440 In this country. 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:56.440 All we care about is cheap energy, No wonder, one 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:59.120 hundred and eighty five countries are just like you know what, 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:03.640 sodd Nothing we can do is going to make up 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:04.520 for that anyway. 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:07.040 Well, the reason we're bleeding out of every orifice, as 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:09.520 you say, is because Chris Bowen has rogered is so 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:12.479 hard with his pursuit of renewable energy. He's been on 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:14.719 top of something. It's just not getting this report in. 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.719 They don't call him Casanova Bowen for nothing. I've got 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:22.480 to go off on a slow because you mentioned V 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.479 eight cars before, and I was sitting here having a 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:29.159 little moment, and I'm sure Paul Murray, if he is watching, 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:32.279 will be having exactly the same moment. Nobody makes V 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:35.719 eight cars anymore. You can the only VA cars you 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:38.760 can buy a second hand. No one makes them, not 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.760 even Toyota, which used to put vates in their land 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.280 cruisers for grunts, not for speed, but even they have 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:46.599 yanked vates off the market, which. 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:49.239 Is in the city today. And this guy went past 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:53.760 in his V eight Commodore, a classic vehicle from boys. 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:54.400 I know. 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:56.520 I mean, an electric vehicle comes up behind you, it 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:58.120 would hit you before you even knew it was there. 0:05:58.120 --> 0:05:58.240 Well. 0:05:58.279 --> 0:05:59.880 I think that's part of the point, isn't it, Because 0:05:59.880 --> 0:06:01.680 of course, you know, too many people on the face 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:03.599 of the planets what's causing all this travel, So the 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:06.279 evs will just depopulate a little bit. I think that's 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:08.520 all part of the deal. But it shows what a 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:11.840 joke this whole thing is. I mean, the climate chief 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.800 at the un Simon Steele, said that this was the 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:21.000 most important policy document of this century. Wow, and only 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:23.840 ten of one hundred and ninety five actually bothered to 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:26.760 get it in. That's how important they clearly think it is. 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:29.080 Or more to the point, it proves that no one 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:32.600 has obeyed the rules that they themselves set down. And 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:35.000 this is the problem with the Paris Accord. I mean, 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.280 you know, we go, oh, well, we couldn't possibly pull 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:38.920 out of it, because you know, we've got to do 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:41.799 the right thing by the world. But clearly the rest 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.880 of the world is not doing the right thing by itself. 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.760 So why would we be foolish enough to go along 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.400 with this when clearly no one else is going along 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.680 with it. It's not worth the paper it's written on. 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:55.919 And of course when you're part of the Paris Agreement, 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:59.760 you can't revise your targets down. You're only allowed to 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:03.839 your targets up. But again, what does it matter. Because 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:06.279 we've got the targets, we know we're not going to 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:09.560 meet them exactly. Everyone in the energy sector has known 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:12.360 that we're not going to meet our zero targets for 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:14.720 twenty thirty So it's certainly not going to meet the 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:18.400 targets for twenty thirty five, and clearly no other country 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:21.440 thinks they can as well. While we're talking about matters 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:24.040 of the environment, littering now that this is one that 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:26.520 I really hate because I think of all the things 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:30.320 you could do to actually help save the environment, not 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.360 littering is one of them. And apart from that, it 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:35.560 just doesn't look good. I mean, you walk around, you 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.920 see crap strewn all over the footpath. It just doesn't 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.360 look good. Put your stuff in the bin. We should 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:44.200 go Singapore style on people. I think it start caning 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:48.640 their hands until they bleed if they're caught littering. But no, 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:51.320 I think it needs to be done. I'm all on 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.000 board with it. If it means a more beautiful Australia, 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:55.760 then I'm all on board with it. Of course, a 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:59.440 more beautiful Australia is what to keep Australia beautiful and 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.880 clean Up Ustralia have been saying four years now and 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.120 every year they do an audit to the litter that 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:08.840 they have picked up over the year previous. Well, they've 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:11.680 gone through all this litter and funnily enough, they found 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:17.200 a marked increase in litter being vapes, right, these single 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:19.679 use vapes which you can walk into a convenience store 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:23.360 and bat which seems very odd because I thought the 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:27.040 federal government banned them. I mean January the first last 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:31.360 year there was an importation ban on these vapes and 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:34.040 then from July the first there was a full on 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:37.559 ban on them being sold all together. And yet they 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:41.559 have found a one hundred and forty percent increase in 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:45.240 these things being littered and not only does it look bad, 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:47.839 clean Up Australia says these are literally the worst things 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:51.240 for the environment possible. This is their chair Pip Kanan. 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:53.480 She says, we call them the triple threat to the 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:56.840 environment because they're plastic waste, they're e waste because they've 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:58.840 got a battery in them, a lithium battery. And we 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:00.640 know what's been going on with those blowing up left 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:03.880 right and center, and mere handardous waste because of the 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:06.720 toxins in the liquid. They don't belong in the environment. 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:10.040 They also don't belong in the curb side bin. But 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.080 isn't it funny to these things which were banned and 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:14.920 we were told that would be the end of it, 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:19.520 all fixed, no one would be vaping anymore. Strike me pink. 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:22.240 The government banning it hasn't worked. 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.680 What a fool. I'm even hiding it though. 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:27.800 You can barely walk down the street without a grown 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:31.040 man blowing a cloud of blueberry mango in your face 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:35.280 and you're innocently walking along like that came out of 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:39.280 your lungs. Foul by the way, real men's smoke. Okay, 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:41.160 none of this vaping nonsense. 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:45.640 Get a life. But it's just out in the open. 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.480 I was behind someone in traffic the other day and 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:49.880 for a second I thought their. 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:54.360 Car was on the fire. It's just billows coming out 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:57.080 of the side and I'm like, God, Lord, what's happening. 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.920 No old mates just sitting in the front having I'm 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:04.680 massive chure off one is vape if it's so banned now, 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:07.360 I mean, there's no way the police actually believe that 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:09.360 all of these are the prescription veves. 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:13.320 Let's do ourselves a favor. These people are just taking 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:13.920 the mick. 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:15.680 That there is a problem here, and that is that 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:19.319 the clean Up Australia data was from the financial year 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:21.000 twenty twenty three to twenty twenty. 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.000 Four, which does take in when the band came. 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:24.720 Now, didn't you take in on the first of July, 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:25.559 But the. 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:29.520 Importation ban came on the first of January, right, so 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:32.920 effectively the supply should have been cut off from the 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:33.640 start of the year. 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.080 Clearly it wasn't right, and then from the middle of 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:38.640 last year then you had to go to a pharmacist 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:41.200 with a prescription. On that point you have to go 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:41.400 to that. 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:42.599 You don't have to go to that. 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:42.880 Well. 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:44.920 I asked my son about this today. I said, like, 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:46.959 if you want to get a vape, where would you 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:48.880 get it? And he laughed at me like I'm an idiot. 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:50.959 He said, from any convenience. 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:52.640 Extraly sandy Tobacca? 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:54.640 That illegal? He said, no, you just go and ask 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:56.680 and they've got them behind the counter. I said, do 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:58.800 they ask about your age or anything like that? Because 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:02.199 he looks reasonably young. Said no, he swears his friends 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:02.880 have never been. 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:07.079 Asked, oh, told me that you don't. 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:09.480 Care a friend of a friend of a cousin. 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:13.920 He knows the iron, right, is that the younger generation 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.360 is supposed to be really concerned about the environment, right, 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:19.920 and yet it seems they are the ones leaving vapes everywhere. 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:24.840 And of course government's are taxing the snot out of cigarettes, 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:28.760 but that's just driven everyone to vapes, which are less 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.120 healthy for you and worse for the environment. 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:33.080 But they've been so stupid as to think that by 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:35.360 banning them it will fix the issue, right. I mean, 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:38.800 prohibition worked really well when it came to alcohol, doesn't it. 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:42.240 It's so hard to take a product that already exists 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:44.440 in the market and then say, well, this is going 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.720 to be gonsky. And we know that vaping is far 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.800 less bad for you than smoking is. In the UK, 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:54.520 the NHS actually gives vapes out for free to people 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:57.480 who want to quit smoking. Is it is much better 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:00.880 for you, And yet the government says it's pertly okay 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:04.080 to go down to the supermarket and buy a packet 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.880 of fags over the counter, you know, apart from the 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:08.920 fact that the sort of hidden so you can't see 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:10.520 the front of the packet, but everyone knows you can 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:14.319 buy them legally at the supermarket, but it is literally 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:18.040 illegal to buy the product that is much safer for you, 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.360 that might stop you from smoking. I mean, yeah, it's 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:23.439 all about health though, isn't it. Please? 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:27.600 Of course it is to America now, where, like I said, 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:33.439 the war on coal powered gas coal rather is over. 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:35.800 In Trump's America. 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:41.280 His secretary of Energy, his name is Chris Right, is 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:45.200 Algare's worst nightmare. What we are seeing under the Trump 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:50.080 administration is him delivering on his promise to drill, baby, drill. 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:55.600 This administration only cares about affordable. 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:57.040 Reliable energy. 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:01.120 Here's Chris Right saying, Coal's going nowhere, baby. 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:03.160 The call has. 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:06.720 Been essential to the United States his energy system for 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:09.720 over one hundred years. It's been the largest source of 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:13.240 global electricity for nearly one hundred years, and it will 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:13.680 be for. 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:14.520 Decades to come. 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:17.760 So we need to be realistic about that now with coal, 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:20.160 are we going to see a renaissance in surging coal 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:23.520 production in the United States? Not likely, But we're on 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:28.640 a path to continually shrink the electricity we generate from coal. 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:32.200 That's made electricity more expensive in our grid less stable. 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:34.360 So I think the best we can hope for in 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.240 the short term is to stop the closure of coal 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:38.000 power plants. 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.120 No one has won by that action. 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:44.520 Mister wrid has announced that coal will remain the backbone 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:50.160 of America's reindustrialization. It's going absolutely nowhere. He even said 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:53.199 that some of the plants that have been shot down 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:58.680 will be reopened. Up to a quarter of US coal 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:02.400 fired power station are due to be retired by twenty 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:06.440 forty well not anymore, of course. This is a massive 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:10.360 backflip from all the green policies that the Biden Harris 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:16.360 administration pushed four years, which really trottled the American economy 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.200 and really limited America's companies. 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:19.560 There. 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:21.880 What do you need if you want to be a manufacturer, 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:26.640 You need power, cheap, reliable power, and lots of it. 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:28.400 Well, says Chris Wright. 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:32.480 Reliable energy is the goal, and that's what we're delivering on. 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:38.280 The goal is just affordable, reliable, secure energy from wherever 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:41.240 that comes from. Obviously there's going to be roles in 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:44.120 the long run for solar energy. There's places where it 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:47.480 makes tons of sense, where where the natural resources are 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:51.360 there and the infrastructure is benefited by adding. 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:52.160 More solar to the grid. 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:53.560 But I will say one. 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:55.520 Thing for sure, We're not going to go down the 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:58.800 road of Germany. You know, they spend half a trillion dollars. 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:02.320 They more than doubled their price of electricity. They actually 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:05.760 shrunk the total amount of electricity the country produces by 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:09.000 about twenty percent, and their industry is fleeing the country. 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:11.800 That's the path the United States was starting to go down. 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:15.800 But that's the wrong path. Thank god for this one eighty. 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:19.600 Hey, these guys are promising to do the exact opposite 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:23.280 of the Biden Harris administration, even going so far as 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:28.160 to say all that climate fear mongering, climate change, global 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:29.320 boiling nonsense. 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:32.600 Do your research. None of it's true. 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:36.400 When you hear crazy stuff today, check it out. 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:37.360 Dig a little deeper. 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:41.760 Hurricanes are not growing, that's in the IPCC report. Tornadoes 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:45.720 are actually on the decline. Floods, droughts, all of these 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.600 things you hear ceaselessly, they just simply aren't so. 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:50.760 It isn't even controversial that they're not so. 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:55.920 But media politicians just continually abuse these facts. 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:02.000 What you wouldn't do to hear an ossie politician, much 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:04.520 less our energy secretary. 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:06.200 Imagine if we had a Chris. 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:10.800 Bowen figure literally spitting facts like this. That's what Trump's 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:14.440 picked in Chris, right, this is the US Energy secretary. 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:16.480 Can't wait to see what he does over the next 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:19.080 four years. Meanwhile, we're still stuck with Chris Bone. 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:21.320 We don't even have to change the Chris bit. It's 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:23.960 just the Surley, just what Bowen for, right, And I 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:25.680 think we're on a winner here phone him. 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.440 I just keep having visions of remember Scott Morrison walking 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.960 into Parliament on that glorious day with a piece of coal, 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.840 saying it's coal. It's not going to hurt you. How 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:37.200 far we've fallen from those days. But I mean America, 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:39.520 we're on track to close over the next five years 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:43.440 one hundred and twenty coal fired power stations, and if 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:46.080 they were going to commit to that course of course, 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.800 it's very difficult doing that to then say we want 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.920 to be the world's leader in AI, because AI consumes 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:55.800 enormous amounts of power and they want to re establish 0:16:55.880 --> 0:17:00.280 a manufacturing base, which they've been outsourcing to China for 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:02.640 all of these years. So you can't have both, right, 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:06.560 You can't have world leading in AI and lots of 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:10.679 manufacturing if you don't have cheap, reliable power. And so 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:13.959 Trump's made the decision we want economic growth, we want productivity, 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:17.040 we want prosperity, so we'll use coal. And of course 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:22.159 China in twenty twenty two, we're building a brand new sorry, 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:25.920 two coal fide power stations every week cost And so 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.960 Trump just understands, if you want to compete, then you've 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:33.679 got to scrap ideology. As Chris Wright explained, the ideology 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:37.600 is bunk anyway, and get on with building a prosperous economy. 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:39.080 And coal got us to hear it'll get us to 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:39.480 the future. 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:41.560 And you know where the coal comes from. That they're 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:47.280 burning overseas US buying, we're maning it. They're buying it, 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:50.440 they're burning it. They're getting the cheap power, and we're 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:52.760 over here going, oh, look at us. We're saving the 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:56.240 planet because we're not burning coal. It's the same planet. 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:58.640 We all live on, the same planet. It doesn't matter 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:01.200 whether you're burn it in China or the US. It's 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:04.119 all the same environment that we live in, right And 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:06.760 you mentioned about AI. Of course, the other thing that's 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:08.960 going on in the United States at the moment is 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:12.480 companies like Microsoft are paying obscene amounts of money to 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:15.199 start up nuclear power plums because they know that that 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:18.120 will be reliable based load power that they can use 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:20.480 and have to run these big AI machines that they're 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:22.760 going to build because they need all that power. And 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:24.680 here we are saying, oh, we're going to have three 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:28.520 eyed fish and mutilated children if you talk about nuclear energy. 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:31.280 This is how ridiculous it is. And of course our 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:34.920 own governments are doing the same stuff that Chris Wright 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:36.639 is talking about here, but they do it in a 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:39.880 lamenting kind of way. I mean, you've had a Chris 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:42.520 Min stand up and say, oh, well, you know, we'll 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:46.200 have to keep a rearing open longer than planned because 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:49.119 we need to make sure that we have reliable power 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:52.120 available for New South Wales. And then down in Victoria, 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:54.560 jes Cinra Allen's had to do the same with loy 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:58.000 Yang out in the gipps Land, et cetera. So they're 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:01.879 all pain to keep culified power stations opened longer than 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:04.439 they were planned to be open. But they cry about 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:06.680 it when they do it, whereas Trump and his mob 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:09.080 are saying, no, actually, we're just going to do what's 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:11.520 good for the nation. What a strange idea. 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:14.120 It's quite amazing in just a few weeks how much 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:16.920 of a difference Trump has made to the debate being 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:19.119 had right around the Western world. All of a sudden 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:21.840 thoughts that we weren't allowed to think, conversations we weren't 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:25.800 supposed to have being had, and that includes around diversity, 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:30.840 equity and inclusion. Another major corporation has walked away from DEI, 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:34.439 this time Disney, which is a miracle because if anyone 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:37.840 was committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, it was Disney. 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:41.640 But their CEO, Bob Iiger, has said that Disney's primary 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:46.800 mission needs to be get this calibern Liz entertainment. He's 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:52.119 decided making movie is about entertaining people, not trying to 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:57.000 insert ideological propaganda into the minds of people. He said. 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:00.119 They don't want to any longer be a gender driven 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:03.040 they want to be entertainment driven. As I said. It's 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:06.119 a massive departure for Disney because just a couple of 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:10.600 years ago, one of their presidents, Casey Burke, boasted that 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:13.640 they had decided fifty percent of all of their movie 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:18.960 characters needed to be either LGBTQ community members or members 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:23.639 of an ethnic minority, and one of their executives boasted 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:29.600 that they were constantly adding queerness quote unquote to Disney 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:33.199 movies without any pushback at all. And how did that 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:36.360 work out for them? Well, it was a box office disaster. 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:40.960 Deis kryptonite when it comes to attracting audiences. In twenty 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:44.600 twenty three, Disney's biggest four movies lost a combined one 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:50.000 billion dollars because it turns out people aren't entertained by DEI. 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:53.959 It ruined their family reputation. I remember Pixar put out 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:59.160