The Rise And Fall of Climate Alarmism | The Deep
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🗓️ 20 November 2025
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In a recent memo ahead of the annual Climate Summit, Bill Gates considerably toned down the narrative of climate change alarmism, saying the main focus shouldn't solely be on the climate, but instead on improving people's lives. In this episode of The Deep, Erika discusses the rise and fall of climate alarmism. She dives into the history of the "global warming" apocalypse narrative, and turns to John Paul II to gain a proper human-centered approach to environmentalism.
Timestamps:
0:00 - A shift in tone: Bill Gates walks back on climate change
5:07 - A brief history: the rise of climate alarmism
8:02 - An apocalyptic narrative
11:01 - A house built on sand: the lies of climate change
14:22 - The collapse of alarmism
16:23 - The right approach to environmentalism
21:00 - Climate alarmism is dying? Now what?
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| 0:00.0 | Is the climate crisis over? Are we done defacing priceless art and gluing ourselves to airport |
| 0:06.3 | runways? Is the four years left panic finally losing its hold? On the eve of the 30th annual |
| 0:13.1 | United Nations Climate Summit, Bill Gates, arguably the most establishment and certainly one of the |
| 0:20.2 | most powerful climate doomsayers of my |
| 0:22.8 | lifetime, publicly walked back the apocalypse. |
| 0:26.2 | We have to frame it in terms of overall human welfare, not just everything should be solely for |
| 0:34.1 | climate. |
| 0:34.9 | That's not a small rhetorical adjustment. |
| 0:40.4 | It signals a broader, deeper shift on the part of global elites. And diehard climate activists know it. Vanessa Carey, the CEO of Seed Global Health |
| 0:47.7 | and the World Health Organization's special envoy for climate change in health, warned that Gates's |
| 0:53.1 | diminished urgency was, quote, |
| 0:55.2 | very dangerous and sent a false notion of just how far gone Mother Earth is. Gates hit back hard, |
| 1:03.4 | telling Axios in front of a thousand students, what world do they live in? This is a numeric game, |
| 1:09.5 | he continued, in a world with very finite resources, |
| 1:12.6 | more finite than they should be. It's time, he said, to redirect those billions of green energy |
| 1:18.8 | dollars back to human flourishing, including amping up, literally, energy production. So, |
| 1:26.8 | does this mean we're going to get an apology for the sky-high |
| 1:30.0 | electric bills? For the thousands of true believers who drove themselves crazy, decided to forego |
| 1:36.7 | children, or literally set themselves on fire on the steps of the Supreme Court because they |
| 1:43.0 | were told the world was about to end. |
| 1:46.5 | I'm not holding my breath. |
| 1:48.6 | Bill Gates, the technocrats and energy experts may have lost interest in climate alarmism. |
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