The Highwire with Del Bigtree - THE GREEN RETREAT

Episode Date: October 21, 2023

Is the Green Agenda in full retreat? Leaders appear to be losing the consent of the people to allow themselves to be overrun with unscientific limitations on their freedoms. ESG divesting, and electric vehicle sales slump, come on the backs of UK PM Rishi Sunak and Bill Gates both conceding failure at the current pace of the green agenda.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

Climate science is settled. So let's move along and rapidly restructure society in order to kind of congeal with this climate science. That's settled, by the way. It settles. So don't question it. So this is the latest headlines coming out of the UK. This is about travel. Travel as we know it could be on the brink of extinction by 2040 warns report.

The report envisages a world in which virtual holidays, virtual holidays become mainstream and carbon passports restrict movement unless the travel industry makes significant changes now. The sustainable future for travel analysis predicts that carbon tracking will become even more individualized thanks to AI. It says travelers will log daily emissions and track travel metrics in real time to reduce their footprint to meet individual carbon goals. So remember people, these aren't conspiracy theories. They're telling you what they want to do. These are think tanks, well-funded think tanks throwing it right out there going, hey, this is a good idea. Let's work towards this.

So if and when these things ever happen, these aren't something that, just came out of nowhere. This is why we report this stuff early along the same time. I think there's only one thing that comes out of an article you must just hold in your mind virtual vacations, okay? The idea of virtual vacations, virtual travel, the fact that any sane person would put that in writing, I just picture myself being lowered into jelly like the matrix and just stick the tubes into me and go ahead and play a video of the places I'm never going to get to see. That is the future these people are dreaming for. us folks and they're saying it out loud with like their outside voice.

And because virtual classrooms work so well during COVID, it helped the kids so much. So let's just look to the vacations. But at the same time, that article's being run. Another article is being run. And you can see a pattern starting to emerge here. The climate change proposal, which means you'll never see the Mediterranean again. Again, this is in the UK. It says a report by a global think tank has suggested people that should take one short haul flight every three years. One flight per person every three years would cut the industry's emission by way more than 43%. It would slash them to practically nothing because there would be no air industry. The airlines, many of which barely survived the pandemic, would be

unable to remain profitable with such meager passenger numbers. So this is coming out of a... They're literally admitting to destroying an industry. Like that's their way forward is destroy an industry. But it's it's green so it's okay I guess. I mean it's for the climate because the world's ending the planet cannot survive another 10 years. So we really need to do what we need to do you have to understand this the travel industry virtual holidays it just has to happen so who's doing this well this is a nonprofit agency that's working with c40 cities and if you don't know what those are there's mayors of a hundred cities that have basically signed on have united to confront the climate crisis by any means necessary so they're supporting this so many major cities around the world

these mayors are supporting this and you can see this is the actual page from this nonprofit research you can see here by 2030 there there's a couple goals here we have we have a goal to slash it every two years you want to see this or every three years you can take that flight so it's basically 1500 kilometers you can take a full flight every three years and that's about 980 miles so you can see there there's a progressive target and then there's an ambitious target and that ambitious target is what they're really going for so that you know there's there's nothing that says no action or maybe a less ambitious target. It's just like, we're going for this.

Right. Crazy or plaid. So it may sound crazy to some people. And it's starting to sound crazy to a lot of people. And this is what prime ministers are starting to talk about now. So this is the prime minister of the UK, Rishi Sunnick. And, you know, this is, we've watched governments push this without even blinking an eye until now. Something really big has happened.

See if you can, see if you can spot it. Take a listen. All right. We're absolutely committed to reaching net zero by 2050. But no one in Westminster politics has had the courage to look people in the eye and explain what this really involves. That's wrong and it changes now. Because the fact is, the UK is so far ahead of every other country in the world when it comes to net zero. We've had the fastest reduction in greenhouse gases in the G7,

and we've already cut emissions further and faster than any major country. So how can it be right for the British people to be told to sacrifice even more than others? The risk here for those of us who care about reaching net zero by 2050 is if we continue down this path, we risk losing the consent of the British people. So today we're changing our approach to meeting net zero to ease the burden on working people. Here's how. First, we're easing the transition to electric vehicles, meaning you'll still be able to buy new petrol and diesel cars and vans until 2035. And even after that, you'll be able to buy and sell them second hand.

Second, we're giving people far more time to replace their old boilers. We'll never force anyone to rip out their existing boiler. You'll only ever have to make the switch when you're replacing your boiler anyway. And families who are hit hardest by costs won't ever have to switch at all. Because it's not right for Westminster to impose significant costs on hard-press families without a properly informed national debate. That's why, third, we're making sure government stays out of your own. life. So the idea that government can tell you what to eat, gone. The idea that government can

force you to have seven different bins in your home. Gone. The idea that government can create new taxes to discourage flying or taking holidays. Gone. The idea that government can tell you how many passengers to have in your car. Gone. Will never impose these unnecessary and heavy-handed measures on you, the British people. Now I don't know if I can, you know, trust Richie's you neck farther than I can throw him, but I will say this. What that video says to us is that people are being heard and they recognize they've got themselves in a real juggernaut and that they better start placating us and backing away from this insanity of trying to ruin our lives and making it our problem and a problem they can't even very well defined. So it's really, I mean, again,

there's a lot of victory laps due this week because people, this is you, this is you. This is all of you in the UK, it's also America. It's our pushback. It's sharing these videos and these government agencies saying, you know, everywhere we're trying to push this, the bigger videos that are being accepted and the culture is shifting is those that are saying they don't want this level of oppression. And we're going to find ourselves out of jobs and getting voted out if we don't start speaking to people. So clearly here, he knows what the majority want to hear in the UK. And for all of us, that's what that just said. Despite what they enact or what we enact or what they do, just know this. We are the majority, the critical thinking people that want to have

freedom and liberty and think we can make our own decisions for ourselves. They're now having to speak to us because we are the rulers of the world and they're having to deal with that. And he got excited for a second. He stopped just short. The idea, I was waiting for him to say, the idea that the government can mandate a risky medical treatment like a vaccination. Right. Gone. I didn't say that. Still need a little more work to get there. Yeah, and if you know anything about messaging, and his messaging is coming from probably the best PR firms known in the world. So you first of all tell someone something very positive. We're reaching our goals faster than any country.

You put all this great stuff at the beginning. Then you put your little bad news at the end. So now I just come out and say, hey, we're risking losing the consent of the British people. So we got to stop this. No one's going to say that. But that's the message. So here's the headlines that were created from that. And there were several.

Rishi Sunnick announces, you turn on key green targets. There's another person, another guy that he's kind of involved in the green movement, Bill Gates, he came out during the same week and said this at a conference. Take a listen. Whenever voters are tested, like in France, you put on a diesel tax. Well, they say, oh, those people, let's see they're richer than me. They somehow should pay for this.

In Germany, when you say, okay, we're going to make you buy electric heat pumps, they back off from it. So these, if you try to do climate things brute force, You know, you'll sometimes get people say, hey, I like climate, I'm for climate, but I don't want to bear that cost and reduce my standard of living. I believe we should spend a lot of money on climate change. I believe we should have very high carbon taxes. The political realities are such that without innovation, it's unlikely, particularly in middle-income countries, that the brute force approach will be successful. It's amazing. It's so much like the video where he ultimately said about the COVID vaccine,

we just expected more people to bow down and do whatever the government told them. We were shocked, and now there's like this huge group of people that didn't get it and actually think I might be a bad guy. Right. And if you get through all his hand waving, the message basically is brute force isn't working. We've tried brute force and people aren't having it. Right. He admits it. We tried it. We tried it hard. We hit it hard. Didn't really work. So I mean, I was shocked when I heard him start to say this stuff. So here's another headline that was created by Bill Gates. Bill Gates sees a lot of climate exaggeration out there. The climate is not the end of the planet.

So the planet is going to be fine. Wow. I'm shocked by that headline. We're told the planet's going to end. So for that big of a U-turn to happen. So let's look at the rest of these puzzle pieces also kind of falling by the wayside or being at least question. So the ESG system, it's a scoring system for. finance it's environmental social and governance it's an it's what investors use to screen

investments based on corporate policies like are you green enough fast enough oh if you're not you're not going to be included in the sustainable fund and so this is the headline created from that money managers are shifting their attitude to esg as realism sets in says s mp's dan yurgan it says in the second quarter of this year investors have pulled 635 million from us sustainable funds according to funds research firm Morningstar that racks up a total outflow of 11.4 billion from these sustainable funds in the past year and just recently in september black rock informed regulators that is closing a pair of sustainable emerging market bond funds these are big big movements here and then let's look at the electric vehicles this is over in

germany Volkswagen cuts jobs as demand for evs plunge it's a big one there how about climate researchers and academics. This headline, this is all at the same time, by the way, idea of green growth losing traction among climate policy researchers, survey of nearly 800 academics reveal. So let's talk about the younger generation because a lot of that younger generation has been taught. The earth is going to basically burn up or freeze or go underwater. It's going to be over. So these are the headlines because they're experiencing an issue with that, a mental health issue with that. This is the headline climate change can have lifelong impacts on young people's mental health report says well the climate change or is it

reports like this that tell people what to think about climate change so this was a while back we have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe warns u.n then a year later only 11 years left to prevent irreversible damage from climate change speakers warned and then a year later the world has less than 10 years to avert climate change catastrophe report finds and then the most recent one world has nine years to avert catastrophe warming study shows but apparently that's all gone. So forget about that. The clan is going to be just fine. It has been amazing, whether it was Greta Thurnberg, like, and you talk to kids, they're being made to be like the earth is going to disappear right out from under them.

I mean, we're making kids live in a constant state of terror. And now, you know, thank God, because the adults in the room are pushing back or having to backtrack from this. But you're right. What kind of mental health is there when you are, you know, being told that everyone alive, that human beings are a disease and we're killing the planet. We're all going to die. The oceans are going to overtake us or food supply will disappear. I mean, it's just crazy what we are just pouring into young children's minds right now.