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Let's talk about doomers, climate, sharks, and loans....

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Beau of The Fifth ColumnLet's talk about doomers, climate, sharks, and loans..... Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

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Well, howdy there internet people. It's bell again. So today we're going to talk about Doomer's climate, sharks and loans. In a recent video, I talked about a UN report that indicated it's all but guaranteed. We, as a society, failed to achieve the goal set in the Paris agreement and that we will not keep the temperatures below 1.5 degrees Celsius. That led to a question about scope and scale. Quote. Bell. You said there was no reason to start burning tires for heat. I'm not sure that's the case. It kind of looks like we're cooked. I read the report about losing New Orleans and if that doesn't wake people up, nothing will. We won't make the quick changes and we will overshoot. Why shouldn't I be a Doomer? Getting a Doomer is complying in advance. Don't complying in advance.

This isn't a your pregnant or your not moment. It isn't go or no go. It isn't that at a specific point everything turns to an extinction-level event. It's more like borrowing money from the mob. Our society used fossil fuels even after we knew it was obsolete and harmful and in doing so we took money from a loan shark. We will pay. We can pay in cash upfront and it'd be uncomfortable to transition. Or we can wait for them to break our fingers. Then our knees. Then the climate change loan shark will bust out our store and destroy the economy. Then it'll put us in the hospital. Then once it knows we'll never pay, it'll put us in the ground. The report basically says, Polly is looking for us talking about us being late with the big. He's going to break our fingers because we missed our deadline. We still have a chance to avoid having our knees busted.

If those who care about the climate adopt Doomerism now and drop out of the fight, it's over. We actually need people who will take the time to read things like the report about New Orleans so they can explain it to other people. We need people to vote for the climate. We need people to care about something other than shareholder profits or the president's donors. Yamavar Resort and Casino at Sandman Well is bringing the biggest laughs to the stage. Break taboos with Ali Wang on August 28th and 29th. Enjoy Ralph Barbosa's Dry Humor on September 18th and 19th. And don't miss Nikki Glazer's unapologetic comedy November 19th. Tickets on sale now at Yamavartheater.com. The Yamavar Resort and Casino celebrating its 40th anniversary. UN must be 21 to enter. There is so much NFL on ESPN right now.

Monday night football, plus pregame and postgame. NFL live, NFL prime time. Everything you need to stay on top of every game, every week. Unbelievable. Now and if a network is on the ESPN app, more football, more coverage, more ways to watch. Football is on. All season long on ESPN and streaming on the ESPN app. If you want a talking point to try to wake people up, maybe point them to the New Orleans report and say it's basically inevitable at this point that we lose New Orleans. We've heard that before. But then maybe point out that losing a major U.S. city of massive cultural, historical, and economic importance is at the broken finger stage. And then work through other cities that will be lost, other activities that will cease to exist, foods that will be lost along the way, creature comforts and so on.

Don't jump straight to the end scenarios. They've had their brains cooked by post-apocalyptic movies. And everybody thinks they'll be the one who survives. There are millions of mediocre men in this country who are absolutely convinced. They'll be one of the ones who could make it through. Yet most don't know their bare basics we cover on the roads with bell when we do the explainers about survival. They don't know the 101 level stuff. But they're convinced they'll survive the final exam. Stick to talking about the modern comforts that will disappear first. Anyway, it's just a thought. Y'all have a good day. Yamabah Resort and Casino at San Manuel is bringing the biggest laughs to the stage. Break taboos with Ali Wang on August 28th and 29th. Enjoy Ralph Barbosa's Dry Humor on September 18th and 19th. Don't miss Nikki Glazers on Apologetic Comedy November 19th.

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