Who Funds That? EP 26: Xi's Useful Green Idiots

Well, and, and that's-

Tiffany

... what I would ask you, right? Is, so is that really what the linchpin is? It's, so just because they produce solar and wind to a certain extent, that's really what these useful idiots are latching onto, is, you know-

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the reason why they're pro-China as these great environmental, uh, activists who are, you know-

Yeah

... forge- forging the path?

I mean, I can come up with some more nefarious possibilities, um, especially when you're talking about billionaires with investments all over the planet.

But, um, [laughs] um, but y- yeah, just in the, in the, in the, um, taking it at face value, if you really, um...

Y- it is interesting that like, as I put in the piece and in other places, that the United States has dramatically reduced our CO2 emissions since 2006, and China has dramatically ramped up theirs.

Our success is largely because we've been switching from coal to natural gas and power generation.

If these groups, these anti-energy groups as I call them, and their donors really cared about reducing carbon emissions, if that was, you know, and we can debate how important that is, but assume that the world is going to boil away if we don't cut carbon emissions dramatically.

The way to have done that in China is to help them get lots of natural gas.

The way to do that in China, they've got 64 nuclear plants.

They're building more.

The way to do that, if you want to reduce carbon emissions, is encourage them to build nuclear power plants.

A lot more of those.

I- China is building a lot of solar panel build-outs because China makes the things and benef- and profits from them, and they sell their excess as a major domestic export item.

And solar panels are easy to put up and, you know, you can tear them down once you've built the new coal plant to do the job better.

Um, so China is just happy to sit there and build the things and take the praise from these groups that, as I noted, because they're not promoting low carbon natural gas or zero carbon nuclear power, their objective doesn't seem to be really reducing carbon emissions.

It seems to be paving the earth with solar panels.

Um, and China's doing that because, you know, China has, they, they last year had four of the 25 most, still most polluted cities on Earth because when they did their industrial build-out, they didn't worry about air pollution so much.

And now they're not worrying about, um, you know, filling a mountaintop with solar panels when a single 1,000-watt nuclear reactor could do the work of that entire mountaintop, and you wouldn't even notice the thing.

So, um, I think what a lot of these anti-energy groups are really doing is promoting wind and solar energy.