Rupert Darwall: Radical Environmentalism and the Climate Deep State
Geopolitics & Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
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🗓️ 26 February 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Author Rupert Darwall discusses the totalitarian roots of radical environmentalism and the “Climate-Industrial-Complex” or “Climate Deep State” composed of NGOs, government agencies, oligarchs, academia and green technology companies. He explains how the climate change movement began as a political agenda with roots in Nazi Germany and 1970s Swedish technocracy and that renewable energy cannot feasibly replace carbon energy sources.
Show Notes
Renewables have brought rising costs, unreliability and puny results https://capx.co/renewables-have-brought-rising-costs-unreliability-and-puny-results
Green Ideology’s Failed Experiment https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2018/02/green-ideologys-failed-energy-experiment
Science proves kids are bad for Earth. Morality suggests we stop having them https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/science-proves-kids-are-bad-earth-morality-suggests-we-stop-ncna820781
Brown advocates for one world parliament https://www.theage.com.au/national/brown-advocates-for-one-world-parliament-20110629-1gqz1.html
Scientists warn of unusually cold Sun: Will we face another ice age? http://www.ibtimes.co.in/scientists-warn-unusually-cold-sun-will-we-face-another-ice-age-759865
New study confirms that nature is responsible for 90% of the Earth’s atmospheric acidity https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/01/11/new-study-confirms-that-nature-is-responsible-for-90-of-the-earths-atmospheric-acidity/#more-54630
POOP BURGER: Japanese Researcher Creates Artificial Meat From Human Feces https://inhabitat.com/poop-burger-japanese-researcher-creates-artificial-meat-from-human-feces
Website
https://twitter.com/RupertDarwall
Books
https://www.encounterbooks.com/books/green-tyranny
https://www.amazon.com/Rupert-Darwall/e/B003VN7VAU/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1
About Rupert Darwall
London-based Rupert Darwall has two decades’ experience in finance and public policy, specializing in the intersection of the two. A graduate of Cambridge University where he studied economics and history, Mr Darwall was an investment banker at Swiss Bank Corporation (now part of UBS) before becoming a special adviser to the chancellor of the exchequer at the UK Treasury in 1993.
He has advised companies on their bids for multi-billion dollar government public-private partnerships; on their regulatory and anti-trust strategies; worked with leading Private Equity houses on public-to-private transactions and in 2008, he advised on a major proxy battle regarding the US assets of one Britain’s largest corporations.
In the public policy sphere, Mr Darwall co-founded one of London’s leading think tanks and was a consultant to the Conservative party during the 2005 general election. His published writings on reforming Britain’s civil service and tax credits have been widely cited and he has written three major articles for the Hoover Institution’s Policy Review. He has also written for the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal on British politics. His books Global Warming: A Short History and Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate-Industrial-Complex are available in bookstores everywhere.
*Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)
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| 0:00.0 | We are speaking with Rupert Darwall, who was an investment banker and special advisor to the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the UK Treasury. |
| 0:15.0 | He is a policy analyst, the author of The Age of Global Warming, and his latest book is Green Tyranny, |
| 0:21.8 | exposing the totalitarian roots of the climate industrial complex. |
| 0:25.8 | Thank you for joining us, Mr. Darwold. |
| 0:28.2 | It's my pleasure. |
| 0:29.9 | Now, I once taught environmental politics at university in Mexico, |
| 0:34.5 | and the course of syllabus I had created traced some of the same history that you |
| 0:39.0 | outline in your book. |
| 0:40.8 | What I discovered about climate change was that in reality it first began as a political |
| 0:46.6 | agenda and not a scientific problem. |
| 0:49.0 | It wasn't as if scientists said, hey, look, we have a problem and we have data to support our theory |
| 0:54.9 | of the problem. I find that it was a political agenda that sought to fix facts to support |
| 1:01.0 | policy. And in many cases, data was fabricated. We had Michael Mann with the hockey stick graph |
| 1:08.2 | that cannot be replicated. East Anglia University's email scandal, and the |
| 1:14.3 | acid rain scare that you talk about that was meant to target the coal industry. |
| 1:19.4 | It seems the science has become twisted. |
| 1:22.6 | Could you tell us about this politicization and weaponization of climate change and environmentalism for political |
| 1:29.1 | agenda? Sure. I think you have absolutely put your finger on it in that scientists knew there was a |
| 1:39.5 | problem. Their theories said there would be a problem, so they then search for evidence to demonstrate that that was the case. |
| 1:47.8 | And actually, this is the second book I've written. |
| 1:49.9 | The first one was called The Age of Global Warming. |
| 1:52.6 | And in the last chapter, I contrast global warming with cigarette smoking and lung cancer, because often you get people like Al Gore say, |
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