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You are the Carbon They Want to Reduce | (Ep. 418)

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Canon Press

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Douglas Wilson celebrates the Trump EPA’s rollback of the greenhouse-gas endangerment finding as a blow against economic overreach, then turns to hamartiology and the New Testament word miasma to reflect on moral pollution, false conversion, and the danger of falling back into sin. He closes with a warm recommendation of A Gentleman in Moscow as a deeply engaging novel about life in captivity under communism.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the podcast. This is episode 418, 418. So, under Trump, the EPA, Environmental Protection Agency, just revoked what's called its endangerment finding regarding greenhouse gases.

0:36.2

Now, this is a, I'll put it this way, this is totally, completely,

0:41.9

entirely what I voted for. One of the worst things that the environmentalists did was they

0:49.8

managed to get everybody to think that what we breathe out, what human beings breathe out, is a pollutant.

1:01.3

Now, we all understand how if you're walking by the factory upstream from your town and you notice the pipe sticking out from the factory, and something

1:11.2

that is bright neon green is flowing out of the pipe and into the river. Everybody will say,

1:18.0

yeah, you've got a point. When you object to that, you've got a point. There is such a thing as

1:23.0

toxic pollution. There is such a thing as making the water unsafe to swim in, unsafe to drink,

1:30.2

unsafe to deal with. There is such a thing as killing the fish, et cetera. Yeah, there is such a thing

1:36.0

as pollution. But the environmentalist didn't know when to quit, or they knew what they were about,

1:43.0

actually, because when they managed to get this

1:47.1

endangerment finding it was called this gave them authority over i think it's like six greenhouse

1:53.9

gases and what we breathe out is one of those one of those greenhouse gases CO2. Now, what this means is that the EPA has authority

2:07.6

over you and your mouth. Okay. If you're endangering the planet just by breathing,

2:15.4

if you're endangering the planet, just by breathing,

2:18.7

then they would like to take you aside and have some words with you.

2:23.3

And what this means, boil it all down,

2:25.7

is that you are the carbon that they want to reduce.

2:29.6

You are the carbon that they want to reduce.

2:32.3

And what just happened is Trump's EPA just rescinded

2:38.7

that ruling, that endangerment finding, which means that a bunch of other regulations are going to

2:46.6

fall down and clatter on the ground. This is wonderful. And part of the reason it's wonderful

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