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Energy is a fundamental part of the universe, but how much do we actually understand it? Joe and Rob ask and answer lots of questions on this fascinating topic, ranging from nuclear power plants to photosynthesis.

Check out all the most recent Creation.com Article Podcast episodes about honeybees

How Much Energy Would You Need To Replicate Elsa's Powers In Frozen? (somebody did this, but using Nagasaki instead of Hiroshima equivalents)

Watts Bar nuclear power plant

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

Californium

Thorium nuclear power?

E=mc2

First Law of Thermodynamics

Second Law of Thermodynamics

The Second Law is not just about energy

John B Goodenough

The lead-acid battery

Energy content of various fuels

Why we don’t power cars with wood

Cracking crude oil

Why not a hydrogen car? Forbes argues it is still a good idea.

Metal hydrides for hydrogen storage

The sun burns 600 million tons of hydrogen per second

According to news reports, there’s at least on bright spot amidst all the COVID-19 bad news: the planet is beginning to heal itself. With those pesky and invasive humans stuck at home, animals are reclaiming wild spaces (and even city streets) and, of course, CO2 emissions are down. The underlying message of these news reports is: What the Earth needs to heal is fewer people.

The idea isn’t new. Since at least the 1970s, environmental activists have advocated for reducing the human “footprint,” which ultimately means reducing the number of humans.

For example, in his latest film “Planet of the Humans,” Michael Moore argues that green energy, such as solar, wind, and other renewables, will get us nowhere. Our only hope to combat climate change, he says, is limiting population growth.  While many environmentalists will disagree about the potential of “green energy,” most agree that we need population control.

In fact, the idea is now so firmly planted in Western minds, it is, for many, impervious to facts and reason.  When beliefs become pseudo-religious like this, we tend to ignore some facts and forget others.

Those who continue to bewail the human population ignore that, with the exception of sub-Saharan Africa, fertility rates have cratered in almost all of the world, leaving countries with a shortage of workers and an aging population. In fact, the median age of the population in North America has risen from 30 in 1955 to 39 today. In Japan, the median age has risen from 22 to 48 in just 15 years.!

And, we are quick to forget that some of the most horrific human rights abuses of the past fifty years were attempts to limit population growth. I’m not only talking about China’s infamous and horrific “one-child” policy. The war against fertility has been waged from Peru to India, and many places in between.

Still, the blindest blind spot driving the anti-human, anti-natalist worldview behind so much environmental alarm is something that has proven to be true over and over. Namely, the best tools humans possess to combat environmental challenges are human ingenuity and creativity. Put another way, it’s remarkably short-sighted to see humans as only problems to be solved. The human capacity to adapt, imagine, and innovate are the best solutions available.

Take for example Project Vesta, which is currently testing an ingenious way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere by taking a cheap volcanic mineral called olivine, grinding it up, and spreading it on sandy beaches. According to Project Vesta CEO Tom Green, the goal is to “speed up a natural process that normally takes place very slowly, over geological time.” When ocean waves and rain hit the ground up olivine, it “triggers a chemical reaction that pulls carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and into the water as a molecule called bicarbonate.” In turn, marine organisms use the bicarbonate to make sea shells and corals.  Or as Green put it, Project Vesta’s vision “is to help reverse climate change by turning a trillion tons of carbon dioxide into rock.”

The very audacity and imagination of Project Vesta reminds me of how enhanced agricultural production spearheaded by Norman Borlaug and the Green Revolution made catastrophic predictions about overpopulation and food shortage look foolish. Or of India’s work developing safe nuclear reactors using thorium as fuel. There are simply so many instances like these that suggest people aren’t the problem. They are the solution.

Misanthropic worldviews obscure the obvious lessons of these stories, and instead advance the demonic idea that we must “cull the human herd” (a phrase that has made a comeback during the pandemic). There is, of course, no reason we should think that human ingenuity and adaptability has come to an end, in this day and age. Thus, there’s no reason to think that fewer people are the answer.

Of course, Christians should know this already, since we also know that every person is unique and valuable, created in the image of God. But, even a materialist, who thinks credit for our success as a species is due to natural selection, should be able to see our track record and conclude: humans are not the problem to be eliminated. They are the solution.

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Nuclear energy is generally demonized in the India society. In this episode, we'll take an in-depth look at why nuclear energy might not be such a bad idea after all.

Inspired by pro nuclear activist, Michael Shellenberger. Links to his TED talks:

https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_shellenberger_why_i_changed_my_mind_about_nuclear_power?language=en

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-yALPEpV4w

More about the idea of using Thorium as a nuclear fuel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1lIfFcxVuY

Explaining nuclear energy further:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcOFV4y5z8c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEYbgyL5n1g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVbLlnmxIbY

Explaining Nuclear waste management:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU3kLBo_ruo

We start off with an interview with Thomas Jam Pedersen, one of the founders of Copenhagen Atomics.

We have a talk about the possibility to revolutionize the future of energy by using Thorium.

Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Furious Friday Edition.

1. One sentence – UN's Agenda 2030 wants us giving up sovereignty to a global unelected socialist government –
   1. Went through the 3 Founders – Roosevelt praised fascism, thought it was the best kind of Gov and acted like it in USA, Stalin - loves him some communism and mass genocide, then Churchill – Not a fan of Indian's 'beastly people' – 1943 Bengali Famine for 3m people starved to death thanks to his policies to take all the food out of the area
2. This sort of thing can't happen today unless we want this – hard to hide true crimes like the past
   1. The founders of the UN weren't good leaders, they loved Authoritarian rule –
3. Why would anyone want to live under a Nazi, Communist or Fascist? What if it is done in the name of climate change?
   1. That is the propaganda - SDG4 -method of building international socialism – the aim has always started by targeting the next generation - now with global-socialist propaganda
      1. All of SDG4 is devoted to ensuring that all children, everywhere, are transformed into what the UN calls "agents of change," – pushing what the UN wants – Agenda 2030 agreement states the aim is to do this - "Children and young women and men are critical agents of change and will find in the new Goals a platform to channel their infinite capacities for activism into the creation of a better world," – all the protests been concocted up as part of Agenda 2030 – through the UN
4. 'Extinction Rebellion' protests – bringing cities to a standstill as protestors demand government officials take immediate action to combat climate change.
   1. 60 major cities across the world through late October – two days in a row – clients/staff late from protests
   2. These protestors have already taken over streets, blocked roadways, and disrupted public transportation in London, Sydney, Paris, and Berlin.
   3. Their message is that climate change is an emergency that requires drastic and immediate action
      1. Looking to force significant policy change is to shut down parts of major infrastructure, like roads, bridges, highways, rail, airports, and ports – basically acting like fascists or Stalin's useful idiots
   1. From what I see it is about crashing the global economy to install a new economic model - Modern Money Theory (MMT)
   2. Agenda 2030 is a pretty clear roadmap to global socialism and corporatism/fascism – using activists as the new Brown shirts
5. And what's the reason behind climate change protestors shutting down cities and causing economic shocks across the world?
6. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon spoke of 'a dream of a world of peace and dignity for all' this is no different than when the Communists promised the people a 'worker's paradise.'" – to give them mass starvation and Gulag prison camps
   1. History is littered with examples - in a similar manner – Mussolini – Fascism: Doctrines and Institutions - 1923
   2. "State intervention in economic production arises when private initiative is insufficient or when the interests of the state are involved. This intervention may take the form of control." – Take control of the economy to serve the state, not the people
   3. Speech in 1933 – "Fascism establishes the real equality of individuals before the nations. The object of the regime in the economic field is to ensure higher social justice for the whole of the Italian people. What does social justice mean? It means work guaranteed, fair wages, decent homes, it means the possibility of continuous evolution and improvement." – almost impossible to tell the people history calls evil to the rulers of the UN today
7. Another example - Nazis – National Socialists – Hitler's party mandate:
   1. "We demand the nationalisation of all trusts and demand profit-sharing in large industries. The first duty of every citizen must be to work mentally or physically. No individual shall do any work that offends against the interest of the community to the benefit of all." – UN has the circular economy to get to the same outcome – all what is in the state's interest
      1. Governments deciding what to be produced/consumed, what the price is and who is employed never ended well – but yet people are keen to repeat? The similarities between what the UN wants and what the Nazi's wanted keeps going on
   2. Nazis - First political party in the world to pass laws protecting the environment in 1935
      1. two years after the Nazis rose to power - passed a Reich law for the protection of the natural environment
      2. scope was unprecedented at the time and while the stated goal was to protect and care for the environment – saving the planet not high on the list
   3. Think about Wars and the CO2 emissions form bombs – Obama dropped 26k bombs in 2016 alone – lots of environmental destruction and waste emission there – but meets with Greta for a photo op
8. UN acts like fascists - That is why the 2030 Agenda is universal, applying to all countries and actors –
   1. Un states: "requires all nations to take climate action, reduce unemployment, strengthen gender equality and promote peaceful societies, to name a few, if the world is to eradicate poverty and shift into a more sustainable development" – Follows similar fascist policies of enforcement and punishment rather than incentives like a free market -
      1. Everything is an inversion – promote peaceful societies- carried out using violence/enforcement – make a tweet or FB post gets you arrested in the UK if it is offensive – Words have been equated to violence – so to keep a peaceful society nobody can do anything – let alone speak their mind –
      2. Irony here is that offence is taken, not given – but this is ignored to protect the faux offended – moral outrage parade
   1. Two-fold – Economics side of thing, and population control measure –
   2. Population is key for CO2 emissions - industrialising countries creates more CO2, create more people as well = more CO2
   3. Agenda 2030 at the core – to reduce individuals' ability to create families and prosper – through economic and environmental control
9. What is a clue that the UN doesn't want to solve climate change and instead grab control over your lives?
10. The fact they wish to send billions off our shores to develop other countries – but in reality – goes to Green Climate fund which sends it off to HSBC and other banks to do who knows what with it – but if they actually develop these countries then more C02 will occur – but I think it will just be more lost money
    1. Truth - Most developed or rich nations have higher emissions – so by making us poor through extraction and laws that the developing nations don't have to follow - then lowers our consumptions and life quality
11. Another clue is the immigration - wanting to increase immigration through the Global Migration Compact – NGOs
    1. Also - Increase in labour does drop wages – and wages aren't representing in the economy – transfer out is same as selling local currency – flooding and devaluing over time – equality – use the strong for the benefit of the weak, so everyone becomes the sum of all averages.
12. All inversions - Another core feature of the SDGs is their focus on means of implementation, or the mobilization of financial resources, along with capacity building and technology. Mobilisation – Stalin was great at that
    1. SDG10 - which calls on the UN, national governments, and every person on Earth to "reduce inequality within and among countries."
       1. agreement continues, will "only be possible if wealth is shared and income inequality is addressed."
       2. Needs to be international socialism/communism – agreement states: national socialism to "combat inequality" domestically is not enough — international socialism is needed to battle inequality even "among" countries.
          1. "By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources,"
       3. Wealth redistribution alone, however, will not be enough. Governments must also seize control of the means of production — either directly or through fascist-style mandates – Like Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, pick any dictator
       4. Agenda 2030 - "We commit to making fundamental changes in the way that our societies produce and consume goods and services," and "governments, international organizations, the business sector and other non-state actors and individuals must contribute to changing unsustainable consumption and production patterns … to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production."
13. Agenda 2030 document is claiming that today's "consumption and production" patterns are unsustainable, so we'll need to get by with less. How much less?
    1. 1992 Earth Summit - Maurice Strong – Oil Billionaire founder of UNEP - "It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle-class … involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and 'convenience' foods, ownership of motor vehicles, numerous electrical appliances, home and workplace air-conditioning ... expensive suburban housing … are not sustainable." – Sustainable development goals aim to remove these things for sustainability = lower quality of life
    2. In truth, such "lifestyles and consumption patterns" aresustainable, so long as the freedom that makes prosperity possible is not destroyed in the name of achieving "sustainability."
       1. The UN and the environmental lobby claim that we must get by with less because there are now too many people on the planet consuming too many resources. But this rationale for accepting UN-imposed scarcity is patently false
       2. Read just a bit of history and see this has been the same message for 200 years - All had same message back in the 1920s- running out of food when we hit 3bn people – the planet would be destroyed by the 70s, and so on
       3. What solved it? Free markets – but if markets aren't allowed to solve problems as they are closed from UN polices – these predictions may come true – so the only solution is less people

1. Little unknown fact – the root of climate organisation was from individuals involved with eugenicists – mission success – population reduction is turning into the answer – not the first time it has happened –
2. A history lesson time –
   1. British PM Margaret Thatcher - the first world leader to voice alarm over global warming in 1988
   2. the same year, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – mandate to only look for human-induced climate change
   3. launch of the IPCC was not driven by science, but by eugenics - the "race science" made infamous by Adolf Hitler
   4. Thatcher got her marching orders from Sir Crispin Tickell - cousin Sir Julian Huxley the President of the British Eugenics Society in 1959-62 – Brother Aldus wrote Brave New World – design for the UNs ideals of how to run society in class
      1. Eugenics society Renamed the Galton Institute in 1989 – after Francis Galton who founded eugenics - had to rebrand after a few decades of bad press – Hitler, 60k forced sterilisations in California,
      2. New solution - beyond direct - how else could you have control over populations – control the environment they live
   5. Ideal or bad climates/environments can increase or decrease population size of animals in zoos – are we different?
   6. Decrease fertility rates and population goes down, reduce access to water or food, or to change their environment to adapt
3. Sir Julian Huxley co-founded the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) with Prince Philip and former Nazi SS officer Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands - Tickell and cousin Huxley are both direct descendants of Thomas Henry Huxley, a.k.a. "Darwin's Bulldog" for his aggressive advocacy of Charles Darwin – Galton's half cousin –
   1. No wonder Nazi's loved Galton - he proclaimed that "Jews are parasites", that "the worth of an individual should be calculated at birth, by his class", and that the "unfit" should simply be eliminated;
   2. he was knighted by King Edward VII in 1909 for founding eugenics as a new ruling British imperial doctrine
4. No surprise that Queen Elizabeth II's father King George VI and his wife supported Hitler right up until WWII.
   1. support is evident in a 1933 film in which the seven-year-old current Queen is giving the "Heil Hitler" salute along with her uncle the Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VIII
5. WWF founder Prince Philip has well-documented Nazi connections - his sister Sophie married a colonel in the SS on Himmler's personal staff
   1. Prince Philip has infamously desired to "return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation".
6. The UNEP was founded by oil and mineral businessman Maurice Strong in 1972 - An ardent population control advocate
   1. member of the Club of Rome – same place UN getting its recommendations till this day – back in the 70's and 80s when this was starting - a haven for eugenicists - Garrett Hardin who has argued for brutal population control policies, such as denying medical and nutritional assistance that would condemn millions to die of starvation and disease
7. From the horses mouth - 1989 Thatcher's speech to the UN General Assembly - "Put in its bluntest form: the main threat to our environment is more and more people, and their activities…. Mr President, the environmental challenge which confronts the whole world demands an equivalent response from the whole world. Every country will be affected and no one can opt out." - Eugenics and population control is the barely-hidden agenda as part of the UN – google it though and 'conspiracy'
   1. Go further and learn about Margaret sanger – planned parenthood founder – big fan of eugenics – read some letters
8. Think about the SDGs gone through so far – the only way to get environmental damage down to nothing is if humans don't exist – Under current technology – not possible to go 100% renewables like solar, wind - Possible to go nuclear or thorium

1. As this plan is covertly implemented by Governments on the behest of the UN - none of us had been informed about it or have voted for it in any way; it basically leads to the loss of personal freedom and sovereignty worldwide.
   1. Which is why I wanted to do this series – provide some clarity to the issue – that the people striking and disrupting are useful idiots - don't be afraid – just say no to being forced into this
2. As a country, shouldn't we get a say on what laws should be adopted? Especially when it comes from other unelected international individuals who have been linked to 'racial cleansing'?
   1. Doesn't it disqualify you to be a politician if you have duel citizenship? Cause you may act in the interest of the other country – how is that different from acting on behalf a foreign Governments?
3. The aim of being sustainable is to collapse the economy – usher in UBI and other forms of population control
   1. Control the environment – control the finances (incomes with UBI), control the lifestyles, control the living situations
4. In the end – don't fall for the UN's promises of absolution of guilt and solving the climate changing
   1. When they can change the Spring turning to summer, I may listen – but to give over everything to a group individuals who meet in secret, all have 4 houses, take private jets everywhere and tell us we are the problem - no thank you

To close – If you are worried about the climate changing due to human activity – then do what you can control – change your behaviours – but don't ask for global socialism and repeating the horrors of history – but on a global scale –

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