Greta Thunberg’s revealing climate summit stunt

In this issue:

  • Greta Thunberg’s revealing climate summit stunt
  • Help my new video on the Green New Deal reach 10 million views
  • Power Hour: Carbon Tax Fallacies, Earth Overshoot Day, and Thunberg’s climate summit stunt
  • The Human Flourishing Project: Tracking mental metrics

Greta Thunberg’s revealing climate summit stunt

Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, is making headlines for announcing that she will travel to the next UN climate summit in New York via a sailboat. As the NYT points out, “Ms. Thunberg does not fly because of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with air travel.”

The Times goes on to explain that the 2-week journey will be incredibly uncomfortable: the boat has no kitchen, refrigeration system, air-conditioning or showers.

It’s a good illustration of the kind of world the green movement wants to build.

Instead of helping people achieve superior results at lower prices, green “solutions” produce inferior results at higher prices.

And they do it while using (wasting) a lot of fossil fuels. Thunberg’s expensive, unpleasant form of travel wouldn’t even be possible without fossil fuels, which were used to make the boat, which fuel its emergency systems, and which have created a civilization where people can afford the luxury of two unproductive weeks at sea. 

Help my new video on the Green New Deal reach 10 million views

I mentioned yesterday that my latest 5-minute Prager University video, “What’s the Deal with the Green New Deal?” was released on Monday. It was viewed over 200,000 times(across YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram) on its first day.If you like the video, please share it widely. If this video reaches millions of people–my goal is 10 million–it could make a real difference in the 2020 election.  

Power Hour: Carbon tax fallacies, Earth Overshoot Day, and Thunberg’s climate summit stunt

On this week’s Power Hour, Don, Steffen, and I covered six topics:

The Human Flourishing Project: Tracking mental metrics

On the latest episode of The Human Flourishing Project I discuss the mental metrics that I track on a daily basis.

Alex