> Here’s warning to all your listeners whenever a politician comes to you and says, “Oh, we’re going to take care of this problem for you.” What they’re really saying is, we’re going to take away some of your freedoms. The exercise for you, here, is to figure out what freedoms they’re going to take away in order to solve this problem, and they’re often well-disguised, but yeah, if you want to be free, that means doing things yourself.
Easily the most important take away in this excellent interview, but unfortunately, also the most contentious.
So what you are saying is we should hold big petro, chemical, and car companies accountable ourselves when they threaten billions of lives through ecosystem collapse level polution and climate catastrophe?
Great! Pick up a gun then!
Or maybe, the whole, "legislation is curbing everyones freedom!" thing is just a lie, fed to you by the most wealthy and powerfull to keep you from voting in a way that protects your freedom, and curbs theirs.
Easily the most important take away in this excellent interview, but unfortunately, also the most contentious.