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A Very Convenient Warming: How modest warming and more CO2 are benefitting humanity - Gregory Wrightstone #6031 · Financial Survival Network

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Earth's ecosystems are thriving and prospering, and humanity is benefiting from modest warming and
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more CO two. I call it the greatest untold story of the twenty first
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century, that of a thriving Earth and an improvement of the human condition because
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of warming and more. CO two is completely opposite of what you and your
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viewers are being told. You're listening to Carrie Lutz's Financial Survival Network, where
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now more than ever. And welcome you are listening to and watching the Financial
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Survival Network. I'm your owns Carrie Lutz. Well, we had this person
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on about a year ago. You end up having the number one bestseller on
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Amazon in environmental policy. I'd like to think we help play a role in
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it. He's got a new book out. The book is a very convenient
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warming. How modest warming and more CO two are benefiting humanity? I know,
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say it ain't so please. Al Gore is rolling in his live grave
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right now. Last book was in Inconvenient Facts, the science that Al Gore
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doesn't want you to know. And his name is Gregory Wrightstone. Gregory,
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it's great to have you back on the show, and so CO two is
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good for us. We glance would all die without it. And hey,
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if it's a few degrees warmer in the North Dakota during the winter, who
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cares, right exactly? Thanks for having me back on the last time I
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was on your show, Carrie, we talked about how there is no climate
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crisis, and we you know, I showed I provided the science of facts
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in the data, the disputed that, and we've taken it a step farther,
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both me personally, my new book and the CO two coalition, and
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we find that by almost every metric we look at, Earth's ecosystems are thriving
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and prospering, and humanity is benefiting from modest warming and more. CO two.
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I call it the greatest untold story of the twenty first century, that
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of a thriving Earth and an improvement of the human condition because of warming and
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more. CO two is completely opposite of what you and your viewers are being
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told. And you're going to. This will be the last time you hear
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me say it's completely opposite of what you're being told. Well, correct me
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if I'm wrong. But aren't we having a CO two shortage is causing soft
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drinks and beverages shortages in them as well? You know, we got a
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shortage of CO two and yet they're telling us we have too much of it.
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I mean, I guess we need to take more of it out of
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the air so we can carbonate our beverages. Right, No, no,
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no, no, no, no, no no, we actually have a
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CO two shortage in the atmosphere as well. Weren't near historically low levels of
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carbon dioxide? You're being told that all video two is at record levels.
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It's never been this high and we have to reduce it. Well, just
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the opposite is true. Again, we have nearly historically low levels of carbon
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dioxide the average. Now bear in mind we're a little over four hundred parts
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per million of carbon dioxide right now four twenty and over Earth's history, though,
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ceof two levels have been over twenty six hundred parts per million, six
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and a half times what they are today. So the plants that we rely
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on are crop They all evolved at a much higher CO two level than what
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we are today, and they thrive on this. So our plants, our
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vegetation, our crops are all at suboptimal levels of CO two. You probably
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remember back to it's probably fourth grade, eight or fifth grade, you were
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learning about photosynthesis, and your your teacher might have had you had a little
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styrofoam cup and you put a beat is some soil and a bean in there
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and you watch the bean sprout. You learned about photosynthesis, and you learned
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at that time that budhasynthesis and plants require three things, mainly water, sun
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light, and CO two, and the more CO two the better, right,
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So what we're doing by increasing the CO two is driving what's called the
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CO two fertilization effect, and the biggest we can go through that a lot
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of the climate crises they're telling you about these natural disasters that are meaning about
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global warming, it turns up we see that these things like fires, floods,
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droughts, many of these are in decline, not increasing, and we
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see that the huge benefits that were crewing is mainly in vegetation. And of
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course vegetation would include agricultltural productivity, but we see that according to NASA.
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This isn't Gregory Whitstone saying this, This is NASA, know a government you
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in that we see a greening what they call greening of the earth, and
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greening would being vegetation's increasing, and we see from the near polar regions to
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the equator there's an explosion of plant growth and vegetation. And we see the
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same thing, thankfully, with our agricultural productivity. In my new book,
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I show a chart. I take the eight top crop in the world in
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terms of tonnage produced, and we look at those over the last forty years
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and find that these crops are breaking records in productivity and output year after year
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after year after year, and that crop productivity increase or do mainly to three
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things. Number one's probably increasing CO two. Another one is this warming temperature.
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We know that we're in a warming trend, but that warming trend started
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more than three hundred years ago. And the warming trend, what does that
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mean for crops? That means the growing seasons are lengthening. In the pontinellity
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United States, we have increased the growing season by over two weeks since nineteen
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hundred. That's a good thing. That's a really really good thing. And
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so what this warming means that filling frosts stop earlier in the spring and arrive
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later in the fall. You can get more plantings in. And if you
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have an apple orchard, what do you fear the worst for the most if
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you'll fear a late spring killing frost. Same with fruit, all fruit,
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the citrus fruit, fruit of thirty six degree weather in Florida. But is
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the world really getting warmer here or are we just imagining this all? No,
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it is warming. It's been warming and fits and starts. We haven't
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had much warming at all really since twenty sixteen. We had a spike in
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nineteen ninety eight during an al Nino event, and then it was flat from
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nineteen ninety eight to about twenty sixteen. We went through about eighteen years where
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temperature really it declined a little bit over that time. And in twenty sixteen
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there was another around big Alninio event that drove a spike in temperatures. But
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if we look at it over the last several you put this into the long
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term perspective of several hundred years, and yes, we are warmer today than
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we were three hundred years ago, and that's a good thing. Just for
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example, it was great. It's three hundred years ago. We had no
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industry. Even one hundred and fifty years ago, we weren't burning fossil fuels
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the way we are today. Right, Yeah, and that's a that's a
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good thing we are again because we're providing prosperity for people around the world.
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And the side benefit is an increase in carbon dioxide. It's fueling plant growth.
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I'll just give you an example why we know it was cold. I'm
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following you talking to you from Arlington, Virginia right now. Eighteen miles to
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my south is Mount Vernet. George Washington's he lived there with Martha, and
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Martha loved ice centered summertime drinks, and so every every winter he'd have his
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slaves and dentured servants down to the Potomac River and they cut the thick ice
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into slabs and bring it up to his ice house. Well, you can't
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do that today. The Potomac rarely freezes over much less have thick ice to
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cut into slabs. So we know, just historical documentation like that, that
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was there was much much colder at that time. Hey, well, it's
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a shame that the hell of DC isn't freezing over anymore, because we'd all
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benefit from that, for sure. So but the world the follow the science.
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The science says it's getting warmer and we're causing it, and this is
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bad. So you're saying, don't follow the science or follow the same science.
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Right. What we find is you're what they're calling the science isn't quite
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so, and that is it warming? Yes? Are we adding CO two
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the atmosphere? Yes? Does CO two have a warming effect on the atmosphere?
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Yes, it's just not very much, and it's overwhelmed by the natural
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forces that have been driving temperature since the dawn of time. So now we're
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the CO two coalition that I lead is in scientific organizations. We've got now
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some one hundred and sixty some of the top scientists in the world. We
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just added doctor John Klauser to our board of directors. He's the twenty twenty
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two Nobel Laureate in physics. It's hard to call him a science denier,
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and so they try. And actually he's proud of it. He says,
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call me a denier, I don't care. But he provides the facts,
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the science and the data. No matter where it leads, and where it
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leads is no climate crisis. All right, Well, I guess I guess
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you're going to make a believer out of me yet. Uh. I drive
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a Tesla, but not because I'm saving the planet. I drive a Tesla
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because I like driving a Tesla. Yeah. They sure are fun, aren't
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they? They can get send here, Gregory. Does that make me a
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bad person because I'm not trying it at all by driving a Tesla. I
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just like driving it. Yeah. No, They're they're fun. They're they're
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fun to drive. But if the reason you're buying it, many of these
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people, I think the Tesla market should be about saturated now because individuals that
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have enough money to buy a Tesla, and many of those are doing it
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for the wrong reason. They think they're saving the planet. You apparently are
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not one of those, Dan, so God bless you. Uh. But
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what we're seeing here, this drive for ebs has been incredibly destructive to the
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automobile industry. I got quite destructive yet, But if you lost four points
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for lost four point seven billion dollars last year in their electrical vehicle business,
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that work got to sixty five thousand dollars lost for every car they saw,
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and that's an addition to seventy five hundred bucks tax subsidy. My father always
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said, anytime you get into a new business, you're going to pay for
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lessons, and that's what Ford and the rest of the legacy automakers are doing.
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So Trump has said if he gets into office, he's going to put
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one hundred percent Terarify on all Chinese vehicles coming into the United States. This
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has the Chinese freaking out look. I think eventually evs will win out because
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they're better in many respects. They're better from the standpoint of less moving parts,
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more efficiency. Although the electrical grid is really inefficient, something that no
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environmentalists will ever talk about, so called environment metalists, because it undermines their
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view. But you know, out of every kiloot that goes through the wires,
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anywhere from five to fifteen percent of it is lost in what's called transmission
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loss. So but eventually the evs will went out because they're better, less
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serviced, more efficient. From the standpoint of the if you can generate the
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power cheaply and efficiently, then the car runs cheaper and more efficient and software.
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It's really not so much the car but the software, and with electric
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you get way more control over a vehicle using software than you do with an
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internal combustion engine. But that has nothing to do with the purported environmental benefits
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of an EV right, well, those purported. I'm going to disagree strongly
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with you. I don't think the evs are going to make it because we
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like the ease of firing up, pulling into a game station, taking three
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minutes to fill your car, not forty five minutes. Plus the evs are
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are much much heavier. There's much more wear and tear the tires because even
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weight about thirty percent higher than because of the lithium ion batteries are so much
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heavier, and they have a tendency not often, but you know, it's
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harder to sput these things have a Lithium is an unstable metal that is flammable,
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and we've seen those fires of these EV vehicles and it's it's not they're
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hard to put out, yeah, I think, And then you look at
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the look at the environmental degradation from cobalt, liftium. Mind all the rare
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earth minerals they have to remind them, most of them outside of the United
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States, with very little environmental oversighter, and it's just you know, they're
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using slave labor in China and they're using child labor and the congo to mind
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cobalt, it's there's a lot, a lot, not just it's not you
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just don't plug the electric your core cord end that the electric's got to come
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from somewhere right now. That's coal. And I don't have those kids to
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work here, go on, Gregor, you've got to put to work.
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An idle mind is a devil's playground. You know that. No, But
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going back to what you're saying, Tesla has broken the code, all right.
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Yes, they're more expensive to fix if you damage them, no question
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about it. But that's for right now where there's just not adequate scale for
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companies to produce the parts on the gray market. Whether Tesla's letting them or
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not, I don't know. In terms of in terms of cobalt and the
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minerals and all that, we're about to have a quantum leap in battery technology
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that we have not seen anything like since Edison in to the alkaline battery.
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So that's going to make a big difference. You will be getting five hundred
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to one thousand miles off of charge. Wireless charging is going to become prevalent.
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In fact, the new Tesla cyber truck has got the jacks there once
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it's developed, and you know, it's just we're going to go to sodium
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batteries. There's going to be so many battery types. You know, the
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main battery innovations I saw in my life where burst well alkaline batteries weren't really
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consumer items till later. Then nickel metal hydride they used to basically power notebooks
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and electronics, and then lithium ion. We're going way, way beyond that.
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And the other thing is they're not practical for people who live in apartments
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and urban areas. But if you live in a house, you charge the
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car there. I don't remember the last time I've been to a station other
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than to buy a soda or you know, a charging station. I went
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once in the past three months to a public charging station because I forgot to
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charge my car at home and it took a w opping fifteen minutes to get
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enough chuck. You have you taken any lengthy trips in your electric vehicle?
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You know, I just don't normally take there. You go a rare,
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unusual you're unusual. Then many people like to take a longer trip occasionally in
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their vehicle, and that becomes a nightmare from just about the charging stations are
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just not there, not less, not for Tesla's Tesla that has the infrastructure.
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You know, now you don't live in Wyoming, North Dakota or something.
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That's true. That's true. I mean that that's but they're just ain't.
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It's just they're putting them at a rapid rate. I've even seen that
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where at the gym I'm at they use Charge America or somebody else, but
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they make them. They buy the units from the one company other than Tesla
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that are reliable, and I never see one of them break. But look,
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I'm not advocating these. I'm just saying it's my belief that the market
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is going to deliver these because people are going to want them because they they're
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better. I mean, but you're talking about. What you're talking about is
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wishful thinking that something there might there may be a breakthrough and maybe they're well,
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maybe they're ankers are there. They're not commercially viable yet, But that's
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just that's just scalability. But I will tell you this, like FSD and
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my Tesla. But you really can't have in an ice car a lot of
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reasons because you don't have the instant response to the computer, and an ice
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car, you know, is downright amazing. You know, there is no
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other car in the market. But hey, I'm not here to putsh Tesla.
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It's been my personal experience. I think they've reached critical mass, probably
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not going to fail. The attempts to mimic them and imitate them have failed,
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And the fact is their sales are still going up. Well, the
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legacy makers ev sales are at best static, maybe going up a little bit.
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But look, like I said, we agree on climate here. I
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just like the car better than any other car I've ever had before, and
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I've had sixty ice cars in the past forty five years. But you know,
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let's get back to the important thing here is Tesla's not going to save
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the climate. BYD is not going to save the world, and according to
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your science, Gregory, the world doesn't need to be saved by them anyway.
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Yeah, that's correct. We've got what we're doing is actually adding a
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beneficial molecule to the atmosphere by using fossil fuels and for you to drive that
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tesla. What you require is electricity, and the best source of electricity.
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I use three words to describe what that should be. It should be abundant,
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affordable, and reliable. I'd like coal. To me, sounds like
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coal natural gas, nuclear not gas, and nuclear is by far the best.
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It's in the United States. It's significantly more expensive, but that's the
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main reason. It's regulatory regulatory issues along that. Wow, and even if
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we just today said okay, let's go all nuclear, you're looking at what
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decades, forty years? Maybe if we've built an up that I don't even
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think about it. It's an impossibility. A good friend of mine has been
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working on that modular nuclear reactor. It sounds like you just put the thing
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together, you plug it in, and you get cheap, abundant electricity.
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Nothing could be further from the truth. You still got to go through the
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regulatory hurdles. It's still a total out and out mess. Hey. And
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if we talk about fusion, I've got a number of nuclear physicists srow on
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the CO two coalition. They, according to them in the in the physics
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community that the standing joke has been that fusion is always forty years in the
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future. Yeah, dating back to the sixties. Oh, what'd be great.
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Yeah, but we'll get there. But the point, the point they
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try to make is there's nothing on the horizon that makes this feasible. No,
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no, no, fusion is a great concept, and maybe we will
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get there. But uh, you know, we've both been hearing about the
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benefits of fusion. Fishing is the way to go? Was it that guy
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from the Bowery Boy he said nuclear fishing? He said, I've been fishing
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a lot, but I never went fishing for nuclear so in any event,
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but no, I totally agree with you. The benefits here to uh to
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uh energy and the world by these evs is illusory at best and fraudulent.
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Perhaps perhaps really it's fraudulent when you get down to it, right, Yes,
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yes, you're being lied to on a daily basis about who would do
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that? Imagine that lie to who would lie to us like that Gregory?
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But then to us, well, there's a Hey, appreciate you coming on.
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Tell us your website please CO two Coalition dot org. CO two Coalition
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