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Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "This Is the Awful Choice Environmentalists Face (Pt. 2) | Jordan Peterson | POLITICS | Rubin Report" video.
I haven't read as extensively as JBP, but his sense is my sense, when it comes to a better, greener future for all. You want people to care about the environment, then RAISE their level of prosperity. A person living day-to-day is not at all concerned about the environment. They're worried about food, clothing and shelter TODAY. What's the best way to get there? Reduce the size and scope of national governments around the world. Guarantee the rights of person and property to ALL.
What's the best, most humane way to curb population growth? Raise the prosperity level of the people. Middle-class and above tend to have smaller families. For the poor, especially in places like India and China, there's enormous pressure to have more kids, because those kids are free labor and eventual pension plan. To a white-collar worker, children are an EXPENSE, and a HINDRANCE to their early retirement! They're a SACRIFICE made out of love, and not a way to make YOUR life easier.
China, a totalitarian state, instituted a 1-child policy, to achieve population stabilization by FORCE. That didn't work out so well, and millions of female children were aborted - some AFTER being born, because if you can only have one child, there's more to be gained from a male child.
These climate alarmists want to do the exact opposite of what makes sense and are totally oblivious to the environmental harm done by their idiotic plans, every single one of which is destructive to the aspirations of the little guy or gal wanting to improve their situation.
As soon as someone improves their situation, their higher values kick in and they seek to make their little corner of the world greener and more in harmony with Nature. It took me 'til I was 50 to afford my own home. What have I done to this property? Planted trees, installed solar, and insulated the dickens out of the place. My long-postponed prosperity also gave me the flexibility to purchase my home within walking distance (4 blocks) of where I work.
That's what these megalomaniacs in supposed power can't wrap their heads around. The world doesn't get better by the few things they can do by force. The world gets better by the individual decisions made by millions (billions) in their own best interests and in service of their higher values. But they need freedom and prosperity to get there, not feudal lords deciding arbitrarily that 'x,' 'y' and 'z' must be implemented by force, while 'a' through 'w' are prevented by their interventions.
There's no way a handful of regulators and lawyers can keep up with the ingenuity and new, better ideas being sought by billions of people right where they are and sharing their successes and failures with the rest of the world, freely, with, for instance YouTube videos on "My Passive-Solar Greenhouse." The regulations are written by big corporations to fit what big corporations are good at. Who's first in line for government subsidies? Billionaires like Elon Musk. If you think all the wonderful things he does and says aren't buttressed and motivated by government intervention, then you're not paying attention.
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