Climate change is being used to control us through fear. Freedom and free markets are a much better way to stop pollution. Polluters make themselves rich by making the public pay for the damage they do. You show me a polluter, I’ll show you a fat cat using political clout to… pic.twitter.com/CmRywROxbf

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) July 13, 2023

PETERSON: “I’ve seen the climate apocalypse use fear to induce something approximating the same kind of level of tyranny, as far as I’m concerned, that characterized the vaccine lockdown. So help me sort that out.”

Kennedy JR.: “First of all, let me just say this about climate. I believe that carbon in the atmosphere and methane does increase warming. Look around, you can see it everywhere. Ice caps are melting, etc., the Greenland ice sheet. I spent a lot of time outdoors and I see that over 69 years, I’ve seen the changes and I’ve seen the mass migration of animals, of southern animals like black vultures, the northern increase in their ranges. I’ve kept track since I was a kid about when the leaves turn and it’s steadily moved up each year, and so I see that, all of my senses are telling me that the warming is occurring. My opinion is basically, as I said, it’s based on common sense. I agree 100% with you that this crisis is being used as a pretext for clamping down totalitarian controls, the same way that the Covid crisis was, and it’s the same people, intelligence agencies, it’s the World Economic Forum, it’s the billionaires boys’ club at Davos, and it’s the same kind of cabal of people who will use every crisis to stratify society toward greater power for the super-rich and greater part of the military, greater power for the intelligence apparatus, and less power for everybody else. A war on carbon is not going to solve the problem if we don’t have a habitat left at the end. My approach to energy is using free markets and have not top-down control. We can recover what we had, but we just have to stay out of fear because that is the weapon of tyrants.”

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[I don’t disagree with Kennedy on the point about climate change as a manipulation via panic. Environmentalists have used that tactic since “Silent Spring” and “The Population Bomb,” inevitably using either wild exaggeration or flat-out falsehoods to argue for authoritarian rule and rationing of energy and other necessities. It doesn’t make Kennedy a good choice for president, but he’s right on this point. Kennedy’s every bit as lefty otherwise as the people he’s calling out. — Ed]