"Climate Activism is a Religion" - Marian Tupy

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.5 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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SPONSORED BY: Ridge Wallet. Use Code “TRIGGER” for 10% off your order at: https://www.ridge.com/TRIGGER SPONSORED BY: easyDNS - domain name registrar provider and web host. Use special code: TRIGGERED for 50% off when you visit https://easydns.com/triggered/ Marian Tupy is the editor of HumanProgress.org and a senior fellow at the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. He specialises in globalisation and global well‐being and politics and economics of Europe and Southern Africa. He is the co-author of 'Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet'. Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Locals! https://triggernometry.locals.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: https://www.subscribestar.com/triggernometry https://www.patreon.com/triggerpod Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Music by: Xentric | info@xentricapc.com | https://www.xentricapc.com/ | Channel ID: UCo_8zzSxKeL3arKWVuP8wdQ Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@triggerpod.co.uk Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/sign-up/ Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro 03:08 Is Population Growth Bad for the Earth? 13:07 The Religion of Extreme Environmentalism 22:31 Future Problems from Depopulation & China 27:30 Why Freedom is Necessary for Prosperity 32:20 Can We Be Optimistic About the Future? 37:23 Fears Around Using Nuclear Energy 45:20 The Unfairness of Environmentalism 49:47 Data Behind Marian’s Optimism 1:04:14 What's the One Thing We’re Not Talking About? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	In a land not so far far away, the three bears were treating themselves.
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0:30.0	The planet is infected with us, we're all going to die.
0:34.0	Isn't that all true and correct?
0:36.0	It's certainly not true and it's actually the history of the relationship between population growth
0:42.0	and abundance of natural resources. It's much more complex than people realize.
0:47.0	It's very interesting to see how extreme environmentalism maps on to Christian theology.
0:53.0	On the one hand, you've got your garden of Eden.
0:56.0	That's the world before industrialization.
0:59.0	You have your devils, also fuel, fossil fuel seals, people like that.
1:04.0	You have your saints, Greta Thunberg.
1:06.0	You have your priesthood, which is the IPCC scientist.
1:10.0	And of course you even have indulgences like back in the days before reformation,
1:15.0	where you are allowed to fly around the world on a private jet.
1:19.0	But so long as you give a few thousand pounds or dollars to a green cause,
1:23.0	all those sins are simply washed away.
1:26.0	And one of the fundamental features of any religion, any religion, is apocalypse.
1:32.0	Is the end of days.
1:34.0	What we are sending is that if the world is going to end, it will certainly not end
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