Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Is There Still a Debate Over Climate Change? | Alex Epstein | ENVIRONMENT | Rubin Report" video.

I'll just take on two of your earlier ones. Epstein's making the point about atomic energy that we really aren't rational in our objections to and illogical regulations of atomic power plants. You can build the courthouse out of granite, but you can't build a nuclear power plant out of granite, because granite's too radioactive. But because we're "used" to coal and oil, we accept risks attached to them that are far greater than the risks people are willing to take in nuclear power. Those miles of coal piles emit more radiation, and burned by the ton, more radioactive particulates into the air we breathe than we ever experience from nuclear power plants. People just really don't understand the insane risks they already take, without batting an eye, but have what turns out to be an irrational fear of what is possibly the cleanest form of energy of all, just because we're afraid of radiation.
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I think it's pretty self-evident that we could be smarter about living with nature, rather than opposed to nature. But what that means is an open question. When you look at middle-class Westerners, you see a birth rate that's actually curbing population growth, so maybe the answer is a world-wide middle class. And, it turns out, fossil fuels are very much the short path for upward mobility. As for the doom-and-gloomers who suddenly realized that climate changes, I haven't heard a single proposal that is anything but authoritarian.
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Well, except for the fact that the climate models they come up with have overshot reality, every... time. Predicting imminent doom and gloom and then nature disagreeing. I think climate change is largely driven by the sun and freak astronomical events/disasters. A period of andesitic vulcanism (highly explosive acidic rock) and we're back in the dark ages, those of us who are dependent on large acreages of grains. Maybe if it's more of a Hawaii thing, with basaltic (more basic) vulcanism, which is not explosive, so it doesn't throw a bunch of particulates, like a Mt. St. Helens or Krakatoa event. If we had an increase in basaltic eruptions along the spreading centers along the midoceanic ridges, that would inject a LOT of heat into the oceans, and it's something over which we have no control at all. Best to remain quick on your feet. Limited gov't. Citizens who plan.
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Jobble top: There does seem to be an up-tick in autism, and I've listened to parents of autistic children talk about how the kid freaked or got a high fever and a lot of discomfort when they got vaccinated and went from above-average to barely able to form words, overnight. So just in people-off-the-street, I've naturally stumbled across a couple families with autistic kids who were normal until they got vaccinated, and now require 24-7 supervision. Basically the end of life as their parents once knew it.
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Yes, but when the money is all in the one interpretation and censure and disrepute attach to any other, some get the impression that the one-note outcomes are political/ideological. And there is pretty strong evidence of some number-cooking and an abject failure of the climate models to align with the data as we get 5, 10 and 20 years into this foolishness. It's becoming painfully obvious their model is exaggerating the effect of man-made CO2. That doesn't mean we all don't want to live cleaner. It's just that most of us are skeptical that government is competent, not COMPETITIVE, with the ideas the ordinary folks are coming up with, like Mass heater rocket stoves that use 1/10 the wood, with near-zero particulate emissions. The EPA can't approve them, because what comes out the pipe is only warm, by the time you run it through your mass. The people are evolving more rapidly than a government bureaucracy can hope to keep up with. I think we, as people, know that it's better to live cleaner than dirtier, and probably not have too many babies. Let that percolate in society. Middle class want to source their food closer to home. We don't need laws to go local. Just some good advertising from the guy that put up the greenhouses on the North side of the canyon. Yeah, the distribution network is marvelous, but sustainable living is all about import replacement, and that includes things like truck vegetables, and in my case, local grown, grass-fed beef or venison. I can see communities growing in that more sustainable direction, without any prodding. It's something that's high-value that most middle-class are more than happy to pay extra for. Love to see Farmer's markets running year-round, where you the lady who grows the stuff you eat, and you've been out there, and it's totally sustainable, organic goods.
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Ayn Rand: Align people's greed with the common good. Incentivize the positive.
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