Needless to say, there's no point in watching this without having bothered to understand what it is addressing. If you refused to watch An Inconvenient Truth for the very understandable reason that that would be an hour and a half of your life that you could never get back, watch it now, then this, and recognize that right thinking people--at least in the face of something as ultimately trifling as climate change hysteria--don't need rely on persuasive arguments. They only need actual arguments based in actual science.
Remember too, that until this trend has gone the way of Acid Rain and Ozone depletion (to name but two environmental bogeymen that we never hear about anymore), you will, for all intents and purposes, be commonly considered as an anti-Semite.
"Strange to think of you, strange now to hear your voices through the ether coming from a world so long since barred to us! I miss you, miss you even though you were opponents of mine and politically on the other side - oh, believe me, finally it is the lack of all opposition and any dissension whatsoever, and the deadly monotony that results that makes life here so unbearable."
- Friedrich Percyval Reck- Malleczewen
"It is only the sentimentalist who imagines that the profundity of a person's response to tragedy is proportional to the length, volume or shrillness of his lamentation."
- Theodore Dalrymple
"Real freedom, concrete freedom, the freedom that can actually be defined, claimed, and granted, was not the opposite of obedience but its other side. The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy."
- Roger Scruton
"A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper, and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides ... the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of transmission; without at all excluding a principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition free; but it secures what it acquires."
- Edmund Burke
"The current muddle between subjectivism about morals and dogmatism about rights, for example, merely conceals the semantic changes by which the moral is being transposed into the manipulable, leading to a gullible acquiescence in the projects of governments."
- Kenneth Minogue
"In Toronto, it appears, one may leer desirously at underdressed girls, or gape at them with the costive expression of one who considers Nudity and Art to be synonymous terms, but one must not laugh."
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