In a very lengthy and technical discussion, Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson are reminding us in the episode #1769 of The Joe Rogan Experience, how difficult it is to take action against climate change. Here’s a snippet of that talk.
Jordan Peterson:
- More people die every year from solar energy than die from nuclear.
Joe Rogan:
- Who dies from solar?
Jordan Peterson:
- Hehe, guess how you die from solar!
Joe Rogan:
- Sun burn?
Jordan Peterson:
- No, you fall off the roofs when you’re installing it…
Joe Rogan:
- Ohhh…
Jordan Peterson:
- Yeah, Ohh!, right?
Joe Rogan:
- That’s gravity, right?
Jordan Peterson:
- Yeah, gravity, gravity… and, you know, that’s a good example of unexpected consequences, because systems are complex and when you change them you think only good things will happen. It’s like well…, you know…
Joe Rogan:
- This ideas of climate–environment: we should be concerned not just about particulate pollution, but shouldn’t we be concerned about the effect that we’re having on the CO2 that we release in the atmosphere?
- Now, from what I’ve read, it has an impact. They don’t exactly know what percentage of an impact it has, but it’s most certainly something that we can reduce. What I’ve also read, hold on…
Jordan Peterson:
- Well that, that’s not so certain.
Joe Rogan:
- What I’ve also read is that, one of the problems is when people start talking about like electric cars, is that is literally impossible for, there’s not enough minerals… this conflict minerals they use for this batteries, there’s not enough to give a car, is like as many cars we have in the this country, as many cars as there are in the world that are mostly internal combustion engines, if you replace those with battery powered cars, I don’t think that’s possible.
Jordan Peterson:
- But where we’re gonna get the electricity?
Joe Rogan:
- Well there’s that…
Jordan Peterson:
- Yeah, that’s a big problem
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