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Jordan Peterson

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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

Because nuclear produces zero carbon dioxide. So if that's the enemy, then why would you do anything other than nuclear? But the Greens, as they're doing in Spain, as they already have done in Germany, they're anti-nuclear, which indicates more strongly than anything else that the story is not about carbon dioxide pollution. It's about something else.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

Because nuclear produces zero carbon dioxide. So if that's the enemy, then why would you do anything other than nuclear? But the Greens, as they're doing in Spain, as they already have done in Germany, they're anti-nuclear, which indicates more strongly than anything else that the story is not about carbon dioxide pollution. It's about something else.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

Because nuclear produces zero carbon dioxide. So if that's the enemy, then why would you do anything other than nuclear? But the Greens, as they're doing in Spain, as they already have done in Germany, they're anti-nuclear, which indicates more strongly than anything else that the story is not about carbon dioxide pollution. It's about something else.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

Now, we can talk a little later about what it might be about, but it's certainly not pro-industry. And the case you just laid out indicates that Well, the Industrial Revolution, seven billion of the world's people rest on the shoulders of the Industrial Revolution, and that revolution itself is a function of energy density and reliability. It is. Right, so that's a first principle story.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

Now, we can talk a little later about what it might be about, but it's certainly not pro-industry. And the case you just laid out indicates that Well, the Industrial Revolution, seven billion of the world's people rest on the shoulders of the Industrial Revolution, and that revolution itself is a function of energy density and reliability. It is. Right, so that's a first principle story.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

Now, we can talk a little later about what it might be about, but it's certainly not pro-industry. And the case you just laid out indicates that Well, the Industrial Revolution, seven billion of the world's people rest on the shoulders of the Industrial Revolution, and that revolution itself is a function of energy density and reliability. It is. Right, so that's a first principle story.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

Yes, right. This is something Lomberg has talked a lot about, right? You get people up above $5,000 a year GDP, they take a long-term view of the future because they're not scrabbling around in the mud wondering where lunch is coming from.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

Yes, right. This is something Lomberg has talked a lot about, right? You get people up above $5,000 a year GDP, they take a long-term view of the future because they're not scrabbling around in the mud wondering where lunch is coming from.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

Yes, right. This is something Lomberg has talked a lot about, right? You get people up above $5,000 a year GDP, they take a long-term view of the future because they're not scrabbling around in the mud wondering where lunch is coming from.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

yes right right so isn't that cool such a that's such an optimistic observation that's incredible because if you understand that then you understand that the proper way forward to a sustainable future which is hypothetically the goal is to eradicate impoverishment correct right so that's that's great you'd think the left would jump on that

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

yes right right so isn't that cool such a that's such an optimistic observation that's incredible because if you understand that then you understand that the proper way forward to a sustainable future which is hypothetically the goal is to eradicate impoverishment correct right so that's that's great you'd think the left would jump on that

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

yes right right so isn't that cool such a that's such an optimistic observation that's incredible because if you understand that then you understand that the proper way forward to a sustainable future which is hypothetically the goal is to eradicate impoverishment correct right so that's that's great you'd think the left would jump on that

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

Right.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

Right.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

Right.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

Yes.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

Yes.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

Yes.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

Right. You should say that again. And we know this is right. We can see what's happening in Europe. Because as Germany has rampaged down the idiot green road... Their power has become more expensive, more unreliable, and dirtier, right? They're failing on their own marker of success, as well as failing on the economic front.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

Right. You should say that again. And we know this is right. We can see what's happening in Europe. Because as Germany has rampaged down the idiot green road... Their power has become more expensive, more unreliable, and dirtier, right? They're failing on their own marker of success, as well as failing on the economic front.