Speaker 1: Back to Charlottesville, Virginia. Shelly. Great to have you on
Speaker 1: the program. Hello Rush, Hey, Um yeah, Shelly from Charlottesville, Virginia.
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering, Rush, I've been around for about over
Speaker 1: six decades saying a lot of politics either way. God's
Speaker 1: are a lot of presidents, had a lot of I'm Republicans,
Speaker 1: but I've had a lot of Democratic friends. Um, where
Speaker 1: did these crazy super mental cases come from? I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like they just come out of the woodwork one
Speaker 1: day and all of a sudden, all this crazy stuff
Speaker 1: starts happening. When did that happen? And and and where
Speaker 1: did they come from? Well, you know, I'm actually glad
Speaker 1: you called out there, Shelley, because I myself had this
Speaker 1: reaction that you're having within three months of Obama being inaugurated.
Speaker 1: All through the Bush ears, I mean, we saw radical
Speaker 1: leftists out there, the anti war people, but it was
Speaker 1: primarily in the media. Uh. And I mean during the
Speaker 1: Bush with George W. Bush elected twice. John Kerry was
Speaker 1: a joke running in two thousand four, never really seriously
Speaker 1: a contender. Um Our problems then was that that Bush
Speaker 1: was not reacting to the media that the destruction the
Speaker 1: attempts to sabotage his regime in the wars and and
Speaker 1: all this. Then Obama gets elected. All of a sudden
Speaker 1: it hit me the same way you have just described
Speaker 1: to here. All of a sudden, it seemed like half
Speaker 1: of this country mainstream radical left. I said, where did
Speaker 1: these people come from? Where has this been? I had
Speaker 1: to conclude that I knew the answer that they had
Speaker 1: been lurking out there all along. Where they came from
Speaker 1: as the American education system primarily. There are other avenues
Speaker 1: pop culture, but the American education system and the Democrat
Speaker 1: Party or primarily it. And if I wanted to even
Speaker 1: get more specific, I could, because a lot of this
Speaker 1: radical leftism that you're talking about, Tyler millennials is cultural
Speaker 1: as well, and I think with Obama's election somehow it
Speaker 1: just it's surfaced. And I had the exact same reaction
Speaker 1: you did. And for a while I was telling myself
Speaker 1: that it can't be mainstream. There aren't enough. We can't
Speaker 1: have lost this ground. Ian. We know these people have
Speaker 1: always been there, but they've always been considered to be
Speaker 1: a really really small minority troublemaking and loud, violent, dangerous
Speaker 1: public protest. This kind of thing. But to me, it
Speaker 1: did seem like the election of Obama just brought a
Speaker 1: bunch of people out from hiding from behind the woodwork.
Speaker 1: And then, like you, it became abundantly apparent that many
Speaker 1: of these people were young millennials. So that to me
Speaker 1: has to be the education system. And I think you're
Speaker 1: probably a list of things that you could attribute to this.
Speaker 1: I actually believe that one of the primary, one of
Speaker 1: the main issues that has led to this is the
Speaker 1: radical interpretation and presentation of climate change. I think that
Speaker 1: snuck up on us. We saw the polling data that
Speaker 1: shows it's not important to ten percent of the country.
Speaker 1: Nobody was believing it. The millennial explosion after Obama's inauguration
Speaker 1: featured a lot of radical liberalism, but climate change I
Speaker 1: think was one of the primary educational tools for indoctrination
Speaker 1: that was being used. And look, it goes back even
Speaker 1: to Ted Turner's Saturday morning cartoon show called Captain Planet
Speaker 1: as Superpower are a superhero trying to destroy all corporations
Speaker 1: because they're destroying the planet. And in anticipation of this
Speaker 1: subject coming up today, I have two stories here. One
Speaker 1: of them, you know, Prince Charles is a loon. Prince
Speaker 1: Charles has got to be well. It is a nice guy,
Speaker 1: it does a lot for charity, but the guy is
Speaker 1: a loon. And you would be too. If you were
Speaker 1: born to be the future king and here you are
Speaker 1: s and your mother has no intention of getting out
Speaker 1: of the way and handing it to you. May die
Speaker 1: before you become king. You'd have to do something to
Speaker 1: make your life meaningful to I mean, imagine the last
Speaker 1: fifty years thinking you're gonna be king, and not the
Speaker 1: last five thinking by the time I'm king, I won't
Speaker 1: even know I'm king. You're gonna put me in a home. Well,
Speaker 1: Prince Charles has always been one of these guys that
Speaker 1: thinks climate change is going to destroy us. And one
Speaker 1: year he will say we've got two days. The next
Speaker 1: year he'll say we've got a reprieve. We've got about
Speaker 1: thirty years now. Well, now he's back. The Prince of
Speaker 1: Wales has warned global leaders that if we don't tackle
Speaker 1: climate change in the next year and a half, the
Speaker 1: human race will go extinct. He made these comments in
Speaker 1: a speech in London yesterday to foreign ministers from throughout
Speaker 1: the Commonwealth. He said, I am firmly of the view
Speaker 1: that the next eighteen month will decide our ability to
Speaker 1: keep climate change to survivable levels and to restore nature
Speaker 1: to the equilibrium we need for our survival. In two
Speaker 1: thousand and fifteen, Prince Charles gave the world thirty five years.
Speaker 1: Alexandria Cortez says, we have twelve years. But then when
Speaker 1: people actually acted on that, well, you know, it's a generality.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a ballpark. How many times in all
Speaker 1: of these recent years have we've been told we've got
Speaker 1: ten years, We've got twelve years, we've got five years,
Speaker 1: we've got fifty years. We don't have any time. We're
Speaker 1: beyond our ability to do anything about it. These people
Speaker 1: are all over the ballpark now, Prince Charles in an
Speaker 1: official speech eighteen months The scary thing is, I can
Speaker 1: show you mass numbers of nils who believe it takes
Speaker 1: me to my second story. There are actually three. This
Speaker 1: is the Boston Herald and Editorial yesterday. Carbon emissions are
Speaker 1: soon to become the latest portal the state of Massachusetts
Speaker 1: uses to reach the wallet of Massachusetts taxpayers. A bill
Speaker 1: is gaming Momentum on Beacon Hill that would place a
Speaker 1: fee on carbon emissions produced by fossil fuels. Executive director
Speaker 1: Michael Green of Climate Exchange, a nonprofit of course with
Speaker 1: a mission to fight climate change, counter that the study
Speaker 1: does not include the cost of climate inaction. In other words,
Speaker 1: doing a dumb thing is still better than doing nothing,
Speaker 1: and those are absolutely are only two choices. You either
Speaker 1: want a carbon tax, a ban on plastic straws or
Speaker 1: plastic water bottle band a band on styrofoam, or you
Speaker 1: are a climate denier if you don't agree with banning
Speaker 1: plastic straws. If you don't agree with banning plastic water
Speaker 1: bottles or styrofoam, you are a climate denier. Furthermore, since
Speaker 1: climate change is purportedly the new World War two, if
Speaker 1: you are not all in, you are allied with the
Speaker 1: Axis forces. You are a Nazi and a denier. At
Speaker 1: the same time, the Boston Herald is editorializing against the
Speaker 1: carbon tax, and I think people are tired of being bullied.
Speaker 1: The third story is the p s that is this
Speaker 1: it ran in Where did this run? A vice website
Speaker 1: called Vice Climate Despair is making people give up on life.
Speaker 1: It's a piece and I folks, there's no doubt that
Speaker 1: this is true. There are a few people who are
Speaker 1: getting suicidally despondent over this. This is what the left
Speaker 1: has been doing two millennials and young people for twenty
Speaker 1: years on this or longer. In the summer of it
Speaker 1: was literally heat that got to Meg Routan Walker, thirty
Speaker 1: seven year old former teacher in Ontario. I think my
Speaker 1: anxiety just reached a peak, she said. It felt like
Speaker 1: there was nowhere to go. She had spoken to her
Speaker 1: primary care doctor about anxiety, she had not sought help
Speaker 1: with her mental health, though suddenly she was contemplating self harm.
Speaker 1: Though I I don't think I would have hurt myself.
Speaker 1: I I didn't know how to live with the fear
Speaker 1: of the apocalypse. My son was home with me, and
Speaker 1: I had to call my friend over to watch him
Speaker 1: because I couldn't even look at it without breaking down.
Speaker 1: She eventually checked herself into an overnight mental health facility.
Speaker 1: Many people are suffering from what could be called climate despair,
Speaker 1: since that climate change is an unstoppable force that will
Speaker 1: render humanity extinct and renders life in the meantime feudal.
Speaker 1: As David Wallace Wells noted in his bestseller The uninhabitable
Speaker 1: earth for most to perceive an already unfolding climate crisis
Speaker 1: and into it a more complete metamorphosis of the world become.
Speaker 1: The vision is a bleak one, often pieced together from
Speaker 1: perennial eschological imagery inherited from existing apocalyptic texts like the
Speaker 1: Book of Revelation. Climate despair has been a phrase used
Speaker 1: at least as far back as Eric Pooley's book The
Speaker 1: Climate War, True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to
Speaker 1: Save the Earth. It's been in wide circulation for maybe
Speaker 1: as little as two years. Whatever you of it, this
Speaker 1: is undeniably a real condition. If not one with a
Speaker 1: set of formal diagnostic criteria, it may reach that status.
Speaker 1: It took decades for burnout to be declared an official
Speaker 1: occupational phenomenon by the World Health Organization. It's impossible to
Speaker 1: know how many people have experienced climate despair as a
Speaker 1: mental health crisis. But despair is all around us in
Speaker 1: our own momentary but intense reactions to the latest bit
Speaker 1: of climate news. In the health crisis, But despair is
Speaker 1: all around us. Pitch black memes and jokes about human extinction,
Speaker 1: even in works of philosophy and literature, there is now
Speaker 1: a fringe, a group of scientists and writers who not
Speaker 1: only take our imminent doom as an article of faith,
Speaker 1: but they seem to welcome it. Climate despair goes far
Speaker 1: beyond a reasonable concern that a warming planet will make
Speaker 1: life difficult and force humanity to make charge our hard choices. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it goes on, and it gets worse, and and it
Speaker 1: sites a sixteen year old tattooed, nose ringed teenager as
Speaker 1: one of the leading authorities on protesting all who are
Speaker 1: creating climate change, makes a hero out of her in
Speaker 1: in this story. Her name is greta Thunberg, sixteen year
Speaker 1: old Swedish climate activist who led the recent worldwide school
Speaker 1: strikes set in her ted talk that knowing about climate
Speaker 1: change was hell on her psych when I was when
Speaker 1: I was eleven, I became ill. I fell into depression.
Speaker 1: I stopped talking, I stopped eating. In two months, I
Speaker 1: lost I lost ten kilos of weight. She would later
Speaker 1: be told that she had Asperger's o c D and
Speaker 1: was selectively mute. Then she came out of her despair
Speaker 1: and found a voice when she decided to strike, refusing
Speaker 1: to go to school until the world demonstrate did that
Speaker 1: it was getting its crap together, Only they don't say
Speaker 1: crap in the story. This, this bunch of leftists has
Speaker 1: literally destroyed the mental health of I would I'd be
Speaker 1: afraid to guess how many millions of young people have
Speaker 1: been driven to serious mental illness because of this bogus, fallacious, absurd, ridiculous.
Speaker 1: It's not helped when Prince Charles comes out and says
Speaker 1: we've only got eighteen months or humanity goes extinct. They
Speaker 1: say Trump's a nutt