#225 - Why Bill Gates is Building Nuclear Power Plants | Benji Backer

(***TIMESTAMPS in description below) ~ Benji Backer is a conservative climate activist (yes, you read that right). Benji is the president and founder of the American Conservation Coalition, a bi-partisan environmental policy lobbying organization.

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***TIMESTAMPS***

0:00 - Benji working w/ Jared Kushner on Climate; Benji’s very confused childhood

6:24 - Benji gets into Republican politics as a kid & then gets into climate somehow

10:19 - Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”; Apocalyptic Cults; Celebrity hypocrisy & Virtue signalling

18:39 - Greta & AOC; Benji’s organization & how it started

22:19 - Science of Climate Change; Wisconsin Winter Disasters

27:47 - The biggest Climate Change Threat Nobody talks about

31:37 - Climate Scientists, Politics, & The Industrial Revolution History; Fossil Fuels right now

38:06 - What does Carbon Footprint “mean?”; What’s really happening w/ Glaciers & water levels

50:43 - NYC, Boston, & Miami Underwater?; How to RAISE Cities off water

1:00:53 - “Clean Coal” (lmao); Trump & Socioeconomic impact on coal miners; Nuclear Energy

1:06:56 - Bill Gates new Nuclear Project; Why Nuclear Energy is Climate Friendly

1:18:12 - Govs vs Corps; Blackrock

1:26:37 - Political pendulum extremism

1:28:41 - Greta Thunberg; Climate Distractions for Gov Actions

1:38:29 - Coastal vs. Rural Political Divide; Hating on farmers who feed us

1:43:39 - Julian’s NYC Businesswoman Story; 1 Party System

1:49:59 - Politics’ greatest crime; Phones & the divide; Technology evolving faster than humans

2:00:02 - Rural Americans’ interaction w/ nature

2:03:13 - China, India & Russia don’t care

2:08:58 - Regulations vs Free Market w/ Climate

2:15:15 - Benji’s Jared Kushner Meeting

2:20:12 - Overpopulation vs Underpopulation

2:25:25 - AOC’s Extinction Lady Prank Funny...

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