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okay my take on guy macpherson's work
I think the guy is making a really
or doctor mcpherson is making a really important contribution to this
a conversation because you know
its it's a it's a wake-up message
a written in in in blood or written in flaming letters
I mean this is you know what Daniel saw on the wall this is
the in the handwriting on the wall this is this is that in
in in in on steroids that's sad
and and I agree with him
that the climate situation is far more dire
then our media is portraying it it is far more dire
then most mainstream scientists
will concede I can tell you that we know when we were producing the the video you
can see over last hours .org I had some back-channel conversations with a number
a very prominent scientists
who said you know I can't say this for publication I can say this on the air
but I'll tell you I'm scared to death this is really really really bad stuff
on the one hand on the other hand the official scientific consensus is that we
still have 10 15 20 years to do something about this
the problem is in James Hanson gave a a great
the talk on this recently and and and actually published a piece in
I think was in science just a few months ago about this is that
had we begun to decrease global emissions
back when al gore was running for president
the first time that the world got together and agreed that we had to
reduce global emissions
back on the Supreme Court handed the presidency oilman George W Bush
and his vice president oilmen *** cheney head with the gun did decrease
global emissions then
with the leadership for the united states it would have taken
four to six percent per year every year
I've declining emissions which was doable
not all that difficult to do
frankly I you know you
at put on a carbon tax are J charge national cause for carbon and suddenly
and if you get the whole world to do it and I realize it's gonna be a challenge
but
it's possible and and even if you couldn't get the entire world to do it
you could do it
to the world because we're so interconnected for example
always say Indian China said no we're not going to do that
then we can simply say okay we're gonna carbon tax everything you export
so all those call centers in India that are used by all the banks the United
States
now there's a tax on every dollar the e center the call center
we're going to tax them for the carbon that they're using for the electricity
to power the call centres
and everything that comes from China all chinese goods
all that stuff the fine in the Wal Mart center its owner we're gonna put it tax
on those when they get our border because China is not charged a carbon
tax
we're gonna have a carbon tax to the imports and so
we actually could because we're such a large part of the world economy at large
consumer on the planet
we could impose a a fossil fuel tax on everybody
and drive the process
and then countries would say okay well for gonna pay one way or another we
might as well pay it to ourselves
is the way to a carbon tax as you collect the money from the fossil fuel
industry and then you distribute all that money back out to the people
as a dividend so that when the price a gas goes up people have more income to
pay for it
but the cost of gas is going up which means electric cars are more economical
so people start making the transition this is just a market-based is getting
republican should lot
to market-based reform had we done that
when al gore 1 Florida
but we didn't learn until a year later when the ballots were actually counted
then you know it would have been four to six percent per year
now if we were to do it it has to be more like 10 percent per year and if we
wait another five years it's gonna have to be like 15 percent per year
cutting emissions 15 percent per year and that's just to hold us to 2 degrees
Celsius which is
everybody agrees a disaster scenario in and of itself
but still cutting emissions 15 percent per year is
pretty much on doable outside of the collapse of industrial civilization
which interestingly enough nasa just predicted in a study that they just
published saying that
you know civilizations rise and fall look at the Greeks look at the Romans
expected from us really
so the question if you knew
or you believed that the human race has
another ten twenty thirty years to go and that's it and I'm not asserting that
I frankly I'd actually believe that we are
clever enough that in the extreme habitats in the extreme north the
extreme south which will become
much like they have it at a Michigan
that we will be able to find habitat know we will be able to survive I think
the human race is going to survive this I think it's gonna be a very different
kind of survival
and that might be a really good thing you look at the Native American
communities that were found by Europeans when they first got here Europeans were
living on sustainably which is one of the reasons that they
reached out across the planet to eat the launch a holiday teams in Africa and
and and United States in Asia and urea and and
Australia and they found people who had lived
who are living sustainably because the natives had
eating their environment they destroy their environment they killed off the
big animals were
three-toed sloths the woolly mammoths Nate it kill a ball of
and created pecan ecological disasters and then they figured out no that's not
it that's not the way to live
and maybe this is going to be the thing that causes us to figure out that's not
the way to live
but in any case knowing bad
what should we do what will you do
guy macpherson's main suggestion in addition to let's
you know stop the destruction of species which is very wise
but an extension that takes us out is going to take pretty much everything
else out
in the Permian mass extinction to got 95 percent of all life on Earth it was
caused by a six degree increase
in temperature in the plan
it was produced by volcanic activity so
if bird if that's going to happen what do we do what do you do
what I would do if I was certain above this
is I would spend I would I would do as much as I could
to teach everybody about
the importance of living in balance with the world in the hopes that some of us
could make it through
and that that wisdom could survive
in the hope and I think hope dies last in the hope that we could even stop it
or at least figure out a way to make it through
and frankly you know I'd want to spend more time with my kids
wanna spend more time with my family loved ones and I'd like to spend more
time just
being present I would meditate or
and I need to anyway so it seems like that's all good advice