THE UNEXPECTED ORIGIN OF THE ‘CLIMATE CRISIS’
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
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🗓️ 12 June 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Let's dig down a little deeper and look at some of the roots of what a lot of people |
| 0:05.4 | and historians say that is the genesis of where this idea, the ideology comes from, this |
| 0:10.6 | rapid push with really no safety now in the other end to catch the societal changes happening. |
| 0:16.8 | So it brings us back to 1968. |
| 0:19.4 | There was a two-day meeting in Rome, Italy, and it brought together economists, scientists, |
| 0:24.3 | and they're basically discussing at that time something they called the predicament of |
| 0:27.9 | mankind. |
| 0:28.9 | It was a serious discussion. |
| 0:29.9 | It was an invite-only organization, and that organization was called the Club of Rome, |
| 0:35.4 | and that's where it started, 1968. |
| 0:38.2 | At that time, the Club of Rome was, one of the big things they were discussing was over |
| 0:42.7 | a population that was an issue. |
| 0:44.5 | That was kind of the issue of the time, the cost to lab. |
| 0:47.2 | A lot of people were talking about this. |
| 0:49.4 | In 1968, you have a really Opa Chai. |
| 0:52.3 | He was the founder of the Club of Rome, and he was basically an Italian part owner of Fiat |
| 0:59.4 | He was very wealthy man. |
| 1:01.4 | A year later, he writes a book called The Chasm Ahead. |
| 1:04.6 | The chasm Ahead, he's talking in this book, part of it, they're talking about birth control. |
| 1:09.7 | They need to stop this over-population problem. |
| 1:12.1 | He's saying, if we don't achieve it by birth control in a civilized manner, he's talking |
| 1:16.5 | about if we can persuade people through maybe education or maybe handing out contraception. |
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