My Chat with Author Michael Shellenberger - Environmental Alarmism vs Realism (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_500)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Topics include the World Economic Forum, Davos, climate change, John Kerry and Al Gore, progressive policies, consequentialist vs. deontological ethics, grandiosity, narcissism, and existential guilt. Michael's Twitter handle: @ShellenbergerMD _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted earlier today (January 19, 2023) on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1502: https://youtu.be/n3_7OMuJwlo _______________________________________ The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense (paperback edition) was released on October 5, 2021. Order your copy now. https://www.amazon.com/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= https://www.amazon.ca/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X https://www.amazon.co.uk/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. _______________________________________

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0:00.0	Hi everybody this is God's out for the sad truth the guest that I have with me today has been tough to pin down but he's finally here I'm so delighted to have him Michael Schellenberger how you doing sir
0:12.8	Nice to finally be with you, God.
0:14.7	Likewise, okay, so let me just read for you some
0:17.6	prepared sort of bio.
0:19.0	You've been an environmental activist for several decades,
0:21.5	co-founder of the Breakthrough Institute and the California Peace Coalition
0:25.2	and founder of the Environmental Progress in 2008 Time magazine named you as Hero of the Environment.
0:34.7	You are the author of three books, at least that I'm aware of,
0:38.2	two of which you were kind enough to send me signed copies of.
0:42.0	San Francisco, go out there people and get it, how progressive policies,
0:46.9	you know, ruins cities, and then Apocalypse Never, both of which I've yet to read, I've perused through them, I plan on reading them in my next vacation.
0:55.6	Does that go and you also ran for governor of California in 2018 and 2021.
1:02.6	Did I miss anything, Michael?
1:04.9	That's, that's, you got it, you got the big,
1:07.2	you got the big part, it's exactly right.
1:09.2	All right, so let's start with some, you know, recent timely things that have happened have you been
1:15.2	following the W E F meeting and Davos with our friends John Kerry and Al Gore and would you like to comment on any of that stuff?
1:27.0	Sure.
1:28.0	Yeah, I mean, I think world economic form is really interesting. It's of course the sponsor of the Davos Summit.
1:36.2	And we published on Monday an article
1:38.7	with a former Financial Times reporter
1:41.4	named Isabella Kaminska, where we reported for the first time on how secretive
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