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Beau says:
Beau introduces the monumental global Green New Deal, suggesting immediate action to combat climate change and pollution, despite human resistance to change.
Climate activists, policymakers, environmental advocates.
The full transcript includes detailed insights on the economic feasibility, potential job creation, and challenges posed by human resistance to change when implementing monumental projects like the global Green New Deal.
Well, howdy there, internet people, it's Bo again.
So tonight, we're going to talk about the Green New Deal.
Not the one you're thinking of.
The global Green New Deal, the huge Green New Deal, the really,
really big Green New Deal.
Some researchers from Stanford who can only be described as
really ambitious put out a roadmap for 143 countries to
reach 100% clean energy, wind, water, and solar by 2050.
That is ambitious by anybody's reckoning.
The technology is already there.
95% of it is commercially available.
The only stuff that is still theoretical
is the stuff that deals with long distance and ocean travel.
Even if that isn't figured out, that's
That's a pretty small piece of the pie, really.
The price tag for this monumental global public works project and infrastructure endeavor
is $73 trillion with a T. But it is spread out over 143 countries.
importantly, it's going to create 28.6 million jobs more than are lost, 28.6
million on top of those that are lost. And that, combined with the economic
activity and the savings, this will pay for itself in seven years. Let's say
they're just really really wrong about that and it takes 20 years to do it, 20
to pay itself off. It's a mortgage on the planet. Even if you think that climate
change isn't a thing, pollution is bad. I think we can all agree on that. Here's a
solution to it. Here's a solution to it. The messed up part about this, it is
technologically feasible, it is economically feasible. So much so that if those were the
only concerns, they say this could be done by 2030. But those aren't the only concerns
because the planet is populated by people, humans, who are resistant to change. That
That extra 20 years is allotted to convince us that we need to do it.
Because it hasn't been out that long, this study.
But it won't be long until some oil company funds a study to attack it.
And we love things that confirm our own biases.
And studies like that, well they can just drag us around by the nose with them.
Because we want to believe them.
Because we are resistant to change.
We're going to have to do this at some point.
Why not do it now?
Why not start now?
We are addicted to fossil fuels.
going to be very reluctant to get off of them, even with a road map, but I think everybody
knows what happens if you don't deal with an addiction.
Anyway, it's just a thought.
y'all have a good night.
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