WEBVTT - Prince Charles Issues Dire Climate Warning (Again)

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<v Speaker 1>Back to Charlottesville, Virginia. Shelly. Great to have you on

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<v Speaker 1>the program. Hello Rush, Hey, Um yeah, Shelly from Charlottesville, Virginia.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm just wondering, Rush, I've been around for about over

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<v Speaker 1>six decades saying a lot of politics either way. God's

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<v Speaker 1>are a lot of presidents, had a lot of I'm Republicans,

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<v Speaker 1>but I've had a lot of Democratic friends. Um, where

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<v Speaker 1>did these crazy super mental cases come from? I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>it's like they just come out of the woodwork one

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<v Speaker 1>day and all of a sudden, all this crazy stuff

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<v Speaker 1>starts happening. When did that happen? And and and where

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<v Speaker 1>did they come from? Well, you know, I'm actually glad

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<v Speaker 1>you called out there, Shelley, because I myself had this

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<v Speaker 1>reaction that you're having within three months of Obama being inaugurated.

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<v Speaker 1>All through the Bush ears, I mean, we saw radical

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<v Speaker 1>leftists out there, the anti war people, but it was

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<v Speaker 1>primarily in the media. Uh. And I mean during the

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<v Speaker 1>Bush with George W. Bush elected twice. John Kerry was

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<v Speaker 1>a joke running in two thousand four, never really seriously

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<v Speaker 1>a contender. Um Our problems then was that that Bush

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<v Speaker 1>was not reacting to the media that the destruction the

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<v Speaker 1>attempts to sabotage his regime in the wars and and

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<v Speaker 1>all this. Then Obama gets elected. All of a sudden

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<v Speaker 1>it hit me the same way you have just described

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<v Speaker 1>to here. All of a sudden, it seemed like half

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<v Speaker 1>of this country mainstream radical left. I said, where did

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<v Speaker 1>these people come from? Where has this been? I had

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<v Speaker 1>to conclude that I knew the answer that they had

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<v Speaker 1>been lurking out there all along. Where they came from

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<v Speaker 1>as the American education system primarily. There are other avenues

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<v Speaker 1>pop culture, but the American education system and the Democrat

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<v Speaker 1>Party or primarily it. And if I wanted to even

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<v Speaker 1>get more specific, I could, because a lot of this

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<v Speaker 1>radical leftism that you're talking about, Tyler millennials is cultural

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<v Speaker 1>as well, and I think with Obama's election somehow it

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<v Speaker 1>just it's surfaced. And I had the exact same reaction

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<v Speaker 1>you did. And for a while I was telling myself

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<v Speaker 1>that it can't be mainstream. There aren't enough. We can't

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<v Speaker 1>have lost this ground. Ian. We know these people have

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<v Speaker 1>always been there, but they've always been considered to be

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<v Speaker 1>a really really small minority troublemaking and loud, violent, dangerous

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<v Speaker 1>public protest. This kind of thing. But to me, it

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<v Speaker 1>did seem like the election of Obama just brought a

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<v Speaker 1>bunch of people out from hiding from behind the woodwork.

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<v Speaker 1>And then, like you, it became abundantly apparent that many

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<v Speaker 1>of these people were young millennials. So that to me

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<v Speaker 1>has to be the education system. And I think you're

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<v Speaker 1>probably a list of things that you could attribute to this.

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<v Speaker 1>I actually believe that one of the primary, one of

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<v Speaker 1>the main issues that has led to this is the

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<v Speaker 1>radical interpretation and presentation of climate change. I think that

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<v Speaker 1>snuck up on us. We saw the polling data that

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<v Speaker 1>shows it's not important to ten percent of the country.

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<v Speaker 1>Nobody was believing it. The millennial explosion after Obama's inauguration

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<v Speaker 1>featured a lot of radical liberalism, but climate change I

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<v Speaker 1>think was one of the primary educational tools for indoctrination

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<v Speaker 1>that was being used. And look, it goes back even

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<v Speaker 1>to Ted Turner's Saturday morning cartoon show called Captain Planet

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<v Speaker 1>as Superpower are a superhero trying to destroy all corporations

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<v Speaker 1>because they're destroying the planet. And in anticipation of this

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<v Speaker 1>subject coming up today, I have two stories here. One

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<v Speaker 1>of them, you know, Prince Charles is a loon. Prince

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<v Speaker 1>Charles has got to be well. It is a nice guy,

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<v Speaker 1>it does a lot for charity, but the guy is

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<v Speaker 1>a loon. And you would be too. If you were

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<v Speaker 1>born to be the future king and here you are

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<v Speaker 1>s and your mother has no intention of getting out

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<v Speaker 1>of the way and handing it to you. May die

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<v Speaker 1>before you become king. You'd have to do something to

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<v Speaker 1>make your life meaningful to I mean, imagine the last

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<v Speaker 1>fifty years thinking you're gonna be king, and not the

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<v Speaker 1>last five thinking by the time I'm king, I won't

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<v Speaker 1>even know I'm king. You're gonna put me in a home. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>Prince Charles has always been one of these guys that

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<v Speaker 1>thinks climate change is going to destroy us. And one

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<v Speaker 1>year he will say we've got two days. The next

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<v Speaker 1>year he'll say we've got a reprieve. We've got about

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<v Speaker 1>thirty years now. Well, now he's back. The Prince of

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<v Speaker 1>Wales has warned global leaders that if we don't tackle

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<v Speaker 1>climate change in the next year and a half, the

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<v Speaker 1>human race will go extinct. He made these comments in

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<v Speaker 1>a speech in London yesterday to foreign ministers from throughout

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<v Speaker 1>the Commonwealth. He said, I am firmly of the view

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<v Speaker 1>that the next eighteen month will decide our ability to

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<v Speaker 1>keep climate change to survivable levels and to restore nature

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<v Speaker 1>to the equilibrium we need for our survival. In two

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<v Speaker 1>thousand and fifteen, Prince Charles gave the world thirty five years.

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<v Speaker 1>Alexandria Cortez says, we have twelve years. But then when

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<v Speaker 1>people actually acted on that, well, you know, it's a generality.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a it's a ballpark. How many times in all

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<v Speaker 1>of these recent years have we've been told we've got

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<v Speaker 1>ten years, We've got twelve years, we've got five years,

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<v Speaker 1>we've got fifty years. We don't have any time. We're

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<v Speaker 1>beyond our ability to do anything about it. These people

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<v Speaker 1>are all over the ballpark now, Prince Charles in an

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<v Speaker 1>official speech eighteen months The scary thing is, I can

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<v Speaker 1>show you mass numbers of nils who believe it takes

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<v Speaker 1>me to my second story. There are actually three. This

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<v Speaker 1>is the Boston Herald and Editorial yesterday. Carbon emissions are

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<v Speaker 1>soon to become the latest portal the state of Massachusetts

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<v Speaker 1>uses to reach the wallet of Massachusetts taxpayers. A bill

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<v Speaker 1>is gaming Momentum on Beacon Hill that would place a

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<v Speaker 1>fee on carbon emissions produced by fossil fuels. Executive director

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<v Speaker 1>Michael Green of Climate Exchange, a nonprofit of course with

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<v Speaker 1>a mission to fight climate change, counter that the study

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<v Speaker 1>does not include the cost of climate inaction. In other words,

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<v Speaker 1>doing a dumb thing is still better than doing nothing,

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<v Speaker 1>and those are absolutely are only two choices. You either

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<v Speaker 1>want a carbon tax, a ban on plastic straws or

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<v Speaker 1>plastic water bottle band a band on styrofoam, or you

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<v Speaker 1>are a climate denier if you don't agree with banning

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<v Speaker 1>plastic straws. If you don't agree with banning plastic water

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<v Speaker 1>bottles or styrofoam, you are a climate denier. Furthermore, since

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<v Speaker 1>climate change is purportedly the new World War two, if

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<v Speaker 1>you are not all in, you are allied with the

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<v Speaker 1>Axis forces. You are a Nazi and a denier. At

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<v Speaker 1>the same time, the Boston Herald is editorializing against the

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<v Speaker 1>carbon tax, and I think people are tired of being bullied.

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<v Speaker 1>The third story is the p s that is this

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<v Speaker 1>it ran in Where did this run? A vice website

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<v Speaker 1>called Vice Climate Despair is making people give up on life.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a piece and I folks, there's no doubt that

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<v Speaker 1>this is true. There are a few people who are

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<v Speaker 1>getting suicidally despondent over this. This is what the left

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<v Speaker 1>has been doing two millennials and young people for twenty

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<v Speaker 1>years on this or longer. In the summer of it

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<v Speaker 1>was literally heat that got to Meg Routan Walker, thirty

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<v Speaker 1>seven year old former teacher in Ontario. I think my

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<v Speaker 1>anxiety just reached a peak, she said. It felt like

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<v Speaker 1>there was nowhere to go. She had spoken to her

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<v Speaker 1>primary care doctor about anxiety, she had not sought help

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<v Speaker 1>with her mental health, though suddenly she was contemplating self harm.

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<v Speaker 1>Though I I don't think I would have hurt myself.

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<v Speaker 1>I I didn't know how to live with the fear

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<v Speaker 1>of the apocalypse. My son was home with me, and

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<v Speaker 1>I had to call my friend over to watch him

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<v Speaker 1>because I couldn't even look at it without breaking down.

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<v Speaker 1>She eventually checked herself into an overnight mental health facility.

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<v Speaker 1>Many people are suffering from what could be called climate despair,

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<v Speaker 1>since that climate change is an unstoppable force that will

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<v Speaker 1>render humanity extinct and renders life in the meantime feudal.

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<v Speaker 1>As David Wallace Wells noted in his bestseller The uninhabitable

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<v Speaker 1>earth for most to perceive an already unfolding climate crisis

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<v Speaker 1>and into it a more complete metamorphosis of the world become.

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<v Speaker 1>The vision is a bleak one, often pieced together from

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<v Speaker 1>perennial eschological imagery inherited from existing apocalyptic texts like the

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<v Speaker 1>Book of Revelation. Climate despair has been a phrase used

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<v Speaker 1>at least as far back as Eric Pooley's book The

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<v Speaker 1>Climate War, True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to

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<v Speaker 1>Save the Earth. It's been in wide circulation for maybe

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<v Speaker 1>as little as two years. Whatever you of it, this

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<v Speaker 1>is undeniably a real condition. If not one with a

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<v Speaker 1>set of formal diagnostic criteria, it may reach that status.

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<v Speaker 1>It took decades for burnout to be declared an official

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<v Speaker 1>occupational phenomenon by the World Health Organization. It's impossible to

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<v Speaker 1>know how many people have experienced climate despair as a

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<v Speaker 1>mental health crisis. But despair is all around us in

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<v Speaker 1>our own momentary but intense reactions to the latest bit

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<v Speaker 1>of climate news. In the health crisis, But despair is

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<v Speaker 1>all around us. Pitch black memes and jokes about human extinction,

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<v Speaker 1>even in works of philosophy and literature, there is now

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<v Speaker 1>a fringe, a group of scientists and writers who not

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<v Speaker 1>only take our imminent doom as an article of faith,

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<v Speaker 1>but they seem to welcome it. Climate despair goes far

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<v Speaker 1>beyond a reasonable concern that a warming planet will make

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<v Speaker 1>life difficult and force humanity to make charge our hard choices. Anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>it goes on, and it gets worse, and and it

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<v Speaker 1>sites a sixteen year old tattooed, nose ringed teenager as

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<v Speaker 1>one of the leading authorities on protesting all who are

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<v Speaker 1>creating climate change, makes a hero out of her in

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<v Speaker 1>in this story. Her name is greta Thunberg, sixteen year

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<v Speaker 1>old Swedish climate activist who led the recent worldwide school

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<v Speaker 1>strikes set in her ted talk that knowing about climate

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<v Speaker 1>change was hell on her psych when I was when

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<v Speaker 1>I was eleven, I became ill. I fell into depression.

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<v Speaker 1>I stopped talking, I stopped eating. In two months, I

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<v Speaker 1>lost I lost ten kilos of weight. She would later

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<v Speaker 1>be told that she had Asperger's o c D and

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<v Speaker 1>was selectively mute. Then she came out of her despair

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<v Speaker 1>and found a voice when she decided to strike, refusing

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<v Speaker 1>to go to school until the world demonstrate did that

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<v Speaker 1>it was getting its crap together, Only they don't say

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<v Speaker 1>crap in the story. This, this bunch of leftists has

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<v Speaker 1>literally destroyed the mental health of I would I'd be

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<v Speaker 1>afraid to guess how many millions of young people have

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<v Speaker 1>been driven to serious mental illness because of this bogus, fallacious, absurd, ridiculous.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not helped when Prince Charles comes out and says

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<v Speaker 1>we've only got eighteen months or humanity goes extinct. They

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<v Speaker 1>say Trump's a nutt