El Niño? La Niña? Atmospheric rivers? Or is it just … weather? A California freakout over a drought-flood cycle that goes back at least decades has now been seized as fodder by climate-change activists as a sign of the End. “It goes back to that narcissism of there’s no God, God is dead,” Adam Baldwin declares in our latest episode. Instead, we have a cult of Gaia and a proclaimed crisis — two powerful ways to force massive change on people. Is it by design? And for what purpose?
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Welcome back to my VIP video series “The Amiable Skeptics,” featuring my friend Adam Baldwin! Adam is well-known for his long and storied Hollywood career, starting with My Bodyguard, and especially for his roles in Full Metal Jacket, Firefly, its film sequel Serenity, Chuck, and The Last Ship.
Global warming is “still just over the horizon,” Adam quips, after decades of warnings of an imminent apocalypse. We’ve been hearing this since 1968’s Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich, a radical environmentalist whose predictions of doom have yet to ever come to pass. And yet, as Adam and I point out, the advocates of the Gaia crisis keep pushing Ehrlich as a prophet, most recently on CBS’ 60 Minutes.
Why? “The ‘solution’, obviously, is to give more power to government and tax us and restrict our movement more,” Adam points out. “They want to control our movement, our money, our purchasing habits, our viewing, our free speech, our gun rights, rights to self defense, and turn it all over in the power to the power of the state.”
Enjoy the exclusive conversation with Adam, who is taking a break from Twitter these days. Join the conversation in the comments — and stay tuned for our next episode!
