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Peter Hitchens Exposes Net Zero · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  Okay, So here's Peter Hitchins masterfully exposed as the farcical nature of net zero
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  to the absolute dismay of BBC Question Time pedalists and audience members. So let's
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  hear what you have to say. This is the brother of Christopher Hitchins.
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  What do people actually think they're achieving? Anybody can look at It's called the
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  energy dashboard. You can get it up on your computer or anytime and see
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  on a normal day in this country where the power which is lighting your home
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  and your place of work and everything else, you see where it's coming from.
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  And on a day when the wind isn't blowing, it's largely coming from
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  gas, or it's coming from important power, which quite often comes from the
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  Netherlands where they still burn coal. We don't burn coal anymore because we didn't
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  just close down our cul fight pawstations. We blew them up. We were
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  so certain we were right to do so. At the same time, China
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  is even as we speak, building the equivalent of two I think two new
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  col fired power stations a week. India has a vast expansion program of cul
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  fired power stations. Even if George is right about his tremendous predictions of apocalypse.
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  Even if he's right, the contribution which this country is making by what
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  it's doing to these outcomes is not merely minimal, it's non existent. Everything
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  we do is completely blotted out by what much larger countries are doing to maintain
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  their own power. Now, if you want to live in a country with
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  net zero, if you want to in the country where nobody can afford to
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  heat their house, where people have incredibly expensive and largely non functioning heat pumps
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  inflicted on them, if you want that kind of thing happened to you.
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  If you want lots of able to lose their jobs because there's no energy,
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  if you want to be cold all the time, if you want the computers
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  which make life possible in pactically every form of life to shut down every so
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  often, then carry on believing that the demand to go for net zero to
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  keep it in the ground is intelligent and thoughtful. Yeah, this is an
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  argument to make in Canada all the time. Is that because of course the
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  Trudeau administration and the NDP here are obsessed with climate and with fossil fuels and
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  emissions, right, the truth is is that Canada could disappear off the earth
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  tomorrow, all of it, all industry, everything could disappear off the face
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  of the earth tomorrow, and it would not change the global climate one bit.
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  We can't. We simply don't contribute enough to it in the first place.
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  Right, we're at about between one and two percent of the world.
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  Again, as he said, China's building new coal plants constantly couple of week.
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  I think it's actually even more than that. Canada cannot change global climate.
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  Neither can the UK, Neither can the Netherlands. You put them all
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  together, it still won't make any difference. Because it's Asia, it's India.
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  It's a total, totally pointless exercise. You know. The wise thing
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  to do was that if there are going to be changes that we can anticipate,
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  well, then you prepare for those, you know, with like engineering,
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  you know, levees, that sort of thing, and maybe you take
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  another look at like you know, forestry policy, that sort of thing.
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  Right, those are the same things that you can do. And while you're
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  doing that, you could maybe be replacing some of your own coal plants with
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  maybe like modular nuclear plants or something that would actually do something. I mean,
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  it wouldn't change the world climate. That's not going to but at least
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  there'd be less pollution where you live, so that'd be all right. You
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  know. The problem is with a modern technological civilization that it's all about energy.
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  If you don't have it, you don't have one. Right, If
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  you don't have it, If you don't have lots of energy, lots of
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  cheap energy, you don't have an economy. You don't have a high tech,
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  techno logical civilization. You don't because it just comes down to energy,
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  lots of abundant, cheap energy. So one of the things that are going
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  to create the power sources for the future, because you know, wind isn't
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  going to do it. Solo is not going to do it. We're not
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  there yet, right, But if you have a wealthy technological society, who
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  knows, maybe maybe you're the country that can create cold fusion or something.
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  Who knows, but that's the only thing you can do. Again, Canada
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  or the UK could just disappear off the map tomorrow, both of them could.
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  Won't make a fucking bit of difference. It's not going to change the
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  global climate at all. So that's what he's getting at there.