Absolute Zero and the Western Holodomor

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🗓️ 15 May 2023

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 116 You have probably heard of "Net Zero," the unrealistically ambitious target of having no net greenhouse gas emissions by some point in the relatively near future (2030, maybe 2050 at the latest). A report filed in 2019 by the prestigious government-funded UK organization of engineers and scientists, UK FIRES (https://ukfires.org/), thinks Net Zero is not enough and is pushing for an insanely aggressive program called "Absolute Zero" (https://ukfires.org/absolute-zero/), absolutely zero emissions by 2050. What does it entail? Among other things, no flights, no container shipping, no red meat consumption, no cement, no new steel production, and no fossil fuel use for any reason, even plastics, by 2050. How do they expect this to be possible? Draconian governmental action combined with drastic semi-voluntary reductions in individual quality of life for all citizens. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay reads the Executive Summary of the UK FIRES "Absolute Zero" report [pdf (https://newdiscourses.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/REP_Absolute_Zero_V3_20200505.pdf), hosted by Cambridge University, by the way] to expose the unworkable, catastrophic insanity of their zero-emissions program in the UK and beyond, warning that it sets the stage for a Western Holodomor. Get James Lindsay's new book, The Marxification of Education: https://amzn.to/3RYZ0tY Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2023 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay #absolutezero

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's James Lindsay, you are listening to the new Discourses podcast.
0:25.0	And we're going to talk about the plan, so to speak.
0:28.6	We're going to look a little further down the road.
0:30.6	I want to actually just kind of dive in on this episode, no long rambling preamble, but I got to give you a little context, of course.
0:37.6	I want to go through this document that was published by an organization in 2019.
0:43.6	The organization is called UK Fires, F-I-R-E-S. You can actually look this up.
0:49.6	The document is called Absolute Zero.
0:52.6	So you can look up UK Fires Absolute Zero.
0:54.6	You can find the report, it's a 31-page report.
0:58.6	I think you should take a look at it.
1:00.6	And so Absolute Zero is kind of the extension of the concept of net zero, which you've probably heard of.
1:07.6	Net zero means that we have to achieve net zero emissions.
1:11.6	Emissions is the secret bad word, by the way.
1:14.6	Emissions is the thing we all have to look at.
1:16.6	When we're talking about this so-called climate change, climate justice, environmental tyranny program
1:23.6	or kind of being thrust into environmental communism really, green communism if you want.
1:30.6	The word emissions is the scaremongering term.
1:34.6	Everything in the entire orbit of society is being organized in terms of being sustainable,
1:41.6	but the thing that's not sustainable is emissions.
1:44.6	And emissions might be carbon dioxide, they might be methane, they might be other nitrogen compounds,
1:49.6	whatever it happens to be that they want to exert control over.
1:53.6	Primarily carbon dioxide and methane because of the climate change claims that they make.
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