The message that I got from BIll Maher is not unlike many of the elite, all that we need to do it minimize everyone else standard of living then everything would be ok. When in reality it is people like him the have a 2nd and 3rd order effect on the environment that they seem to overlook. The infrastructure necessary to maintain and facilitate his lifestyle and business and more nominally and per capita than most of the population combine. And if you were to included the government component as Bill Maher relies more of the government than the common citizen as he uses greater services-air space, roads for all his cars, greater sewer usage, greater water usages, military to protect the home, & yes energy. So while he preaching down to the rest of use he himself is not going to suffer from the his prescription, typical Malthusianism clap trap.
It is amazing to me how at the very moment that someone forecasts mass famines (Maltus, Ulrich…etc) a new series of innovations emerge that enable us to produce more food from less land.
I have given two climate (greenhouse effect) talks in my life and at one point actually signed the scientists call for a climate emegency which I have now rescinded. I am now in the camp that its what we don't know that is impacting us. It's a concern but I'll be damned if I want to see a global plan response orchestrated by the WHO and the UN. In my last talk at a convention I used Project Drawdown to show that even anthroprogenic impacts can be done without doing new nuclear power or waste to energy. It just makes sense to reduce energy use from a household ecology and economics and can be done without sacrificing comfort.
That said, BM is to my view a self absorbed narcissist in the same vein as Donald Trump except at different ends of political spectrum. Neither would I ever wish to have as a neighbor. I don’t think BM is any great comedian as much as I don’t think DT is any great executive.
I doubt he ever nailed two boards together. But he did know how to cheat contractors and Polish workers. Not my idea of a builder. As for the old U.S. Post Office building in D.C., it was already in place when he bought it.
The message that I got from BIll Maher is not unlike many of the elite, all that we need to do it minimize everyone else standard of living then everything would be ok. When in reality it is people like him the have a 2nd and 3rd order effect on the environment that they seem to overlook. The infrastructure necessary to maintain and facilitate his lifestyle and business and more nominally and per capita than most of the population combine. And if you were to included the government component as Bill Maher relies more of the government than the common citizen as he uses greater services-air space, roads for all his cars, greater sewer usage, greater water usages, military to protect the home, & yes energy. So while he preaching down to the rest of use he himself is not going to suffer from the his prescription, typical Malthusianism clap trap.
Too many people on the globe? To quote Doomberg, “you first.”
It is amazing to me how at the very moment that someone forecasts mass famines (Maltus, Ulrich…etc) a new series of innovations emerge that enable us to produce more food from less land.
I have given two climate (greenhouse effect) talks in my life and at one point actually signed the scientists call for a climate emegency which I have now rescinded. I am now in the camp that its what we don't know that is impacting us. It's a concern but I'll be damned if I want to see a global plan response orchestrated by the WHO and the UN. In my last talk at a convention I used Project Drawdown to show that even anthroprogenic impacts can be done without doing new nuclear power or waste to energy. It just makes sense to reduce energy use from a household ecology and economics and can be done without sacrificing comfort.
That said, BM is to my view a self absorbed narcissist in the same vein as Donald Trump except at different ends of political spectrum. Neither would I ever wish to have as a neighbor. I don’t think BM is any great comedian as much as I don’t think DT is any great executive.
Great piece. Well done!
I doubt he ever nailed two boards together. But he did know how to cheat contractors and Polish workers. Not my idea of a builder. As for the old U.S. Post Office building in D.C., it was already in place when he bought it.