Harriet Hageman

What you have to understand is, number one, we can adapt, but so does our climate, so does our environment, and we've done a dang good job of protecting our environment while, as you say, feeding the masses and improving our entire condition, improving our financial situation, improving our standard of living in ways unrivaled in human history.

What you have to understand is, number one, we can adapt, but so does our climate, so does our environment, and we've done a dang good job of protecting our environment while, as you say, feeding the masses and improving our entire condition, improving our financial situation, improving our standard of living in ways unrivaled in human history.

I don't believe in energy poverty. I believe that it is not the role of government to make people's lives miserable. And I'm just gonna tell you a very quick story about my mother. My mother is 101 years old. And when you think about how her life has changed over the last hundred years,

I don't believe in energy poverty. I believe that it is not the role of government to make people's lives miserable. And I'm just gonna tell you a very quick story about my mother. My mother is 101 years old. And when you think about how her life has changed over the last hundred years,

When she was young, they would get up at 4 o'clock in the morning to milk the cows, they chopped the wood, they tended the garden, they canned the food, they worked in the field, they did all of those things, but it was more of a subsistence type of living.

When she was young, they would get up at 4 o'clock in the morning to milk the cows, they chopped the wood, they tended the garden, they canned the food, they worked in the field, they did all of those things, but it was more of a subsistence type of living.

In 100 years, look at the homes we live in, the cars that we drive, the travel, our clothing, our jewelry, everything about us has changed so dramatically. The increase in life expectancy, the decrease in infant mortality rate, and every bit of that is because of the commercial production of affordable energy. Yet when we have these debates, nobody talks about the opportunity costs.

In 100 years, look at the homes we live in, the cars that we drive, the travel, our clothing, our jewelry, everything about us has changed so dramatically. The increase in life expectancy, the decrease in infant mortality rate, and every bit of that is because of the commercial production of affordable energy. Yet when we have these debates, nobody talks about the opportunity costs.

So if we do away with affordable energy, what does that do in terms of increasing infant mortality rate? What does that do in terms of our lifestyle? What does that do in terms of our prosperity? Those opportunity costs are never addressed.

So if we do away with affordable energy, what does that do in terms of increasing infant mortality rate? What does that do in terms of our lifestyle? What does that do in terms of our prosperity? Those opportunity costs are never addressed.

And again, it's this idea of adaption and recognizing that we really can make decisions about how we take care of our environment and we can do it in an incredibly effective way without destroying everything that we have built up and created over the last 100 years.

And again, it's this idea of adaption and recognizing that we really can make decisions about how we take care of our environment and we can do it in an incredibly effective way without destroying everything that we have built up and created over the last 100 years.

We lived in a house that we didn't have a telephone, we didn't have a TV most of the time growing up. We had a wood-burning stove and we would take big catalogs, Montgomery Ward catalogs, put them on the stove to warm them up at night, wrap them in fabric and take them to bed.

We lived in a house that we didn't have a telephone, we didn't have a TV most of the time growing up. We had a wood-burning stove and we would take big catalogs, Montgomery Ward catalogs, put them on the stove to warm them up at night, wrap them in fabric and take them to bed.

Now, granted, I lived a little bit isolated because of where the ranch was in Wyoming, and a lot of people in my generation didn't have to live that way. But I'm telling you, as someone who did, as someone who grew up that way, I don't want to return to it. And yet that is what we push when we push this radical climate agenda that's really an anti-humanist view of the world.

Now, granted, I lived a little bit isolated because of where the ranch was in Wyoming, and a lot of people in my generation didn't have to live that way. But I'm telling you, as someone who did, as someone who grew up that way, I don't want to return to it. And yet that is what we push when we push this radical climate agenda that's really an anti-humanist view of the world.

As I often say, you can either be a champion of abundance or you can be a lord of scarcity. I believe we should be champions of abundance. We should be looking at ways to innovate, to make sure that we can feed the masses, that we can provide the energy resources. I do not believe that, again, government should try to make people's lives miserable.

As I often say, you can either be a champion of abundance or you can be a lord of scarcity. I believe we should be champions of abundance. We should be looking at ways to innovate, to make sure that we can feed the masses, that we can provide the energy resources. I do not believe that, again, government should try to make people's lives miserable.

Yet that's what the entire global warming and climate change crowd is about.

Yet that's what the entire global warming and climate change crowd is about.