Author and free speech activist Michael Shellenberger lately spoke with Tucker Carlson in regards to the hypocrisy of our political elites who declare to care about local weather change.

He notes that if these individuals have been critical, they might embrace pure gasoline, which america has in huge quantities.

As a substitute, our elites are all about management. Shellenberger even means that these individuals need to make power scarce on function.

Real Clear Politics supplies a partial transcript:

MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER: I feel what’s so fascinating about what’s occurring proper now’s that simply even a yr or two in the past, world elites used to fake to care about individuals however they’re not even pretending anymore,” Shellenberger mentioned. “I imply, right here they fly their non-public jets…I feel that what’s so totally different now’s that the elites are simply overtly and blatantly expressing their hatred of humankind, significantly the hatred of working individuals, of poor individuals, individuals each in america in so-called flyover states that they hate a lot, but additionally in locations like India and China and Africa the place individuals need to reside a greater life, and that’s what coal has historically offered.

The apparent various to coal is pure gasoline. Should you cared about local weather change, if this was really about local weather change, you’ll simply produce extra pure gasoline as a result of it produces half the carbon emissions of coal. America lowered our Carbon emissions by 22% between 2005 and 2020 with 61% of that schooling merely coming from switching from coal to pure gasoline, however John Kerry and different local weather activists are in opposition to pure gasoline and so they’ve been stifling of pure gasoline, clean-burning American pure gasoline, which is the cleanest on the earth. So it’s so apparent, it’s so hypocritical, however worse than that I feel it’s actually anti-human.

Watch the video under. Shellenberger is available in simply earlier than the 5 minute mark:

Ep. 44 One other half-demented 80-year-old yelling about issues he doesn’t perceive. These are our leaders. They don’t care about our future as a result of they don’t have considered one of their very own. pic.twitter.com/iylpXALJjZ

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) December 4, 2023

As Shellenberger says at one level, it actually does appear to be a few of our ‘leaders’ hate us.