New Rule: Climate Shame | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
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- Опубликовано: 28 янв 2023
- Bill comes clean about flying on private jets and calls out the stars and politicians who speak about the need to reduce our carbon footprint while doing the same.
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I work at an aluminum recycling facility. Aluminum is infinitely recyclable and uses just a fraction of energy to recycle vs. produce. Ball Aluminum introduced the aluminum "red solo cup" replacement last year and it's a great example of what real change can look like. Making products that and decisions at a level before the consumer is where the future lies.
The problem is its not just one thing. Its everything. Plastic Solo cups are still sold and probably will always outsell aluminum ones. There needs to be a BIG coordinated concerted effort, not just yet another one little thing that makes people feel like they've done their part. Unfortunately there will be no coordinated serious effort until the skies are on fire. And even then... I'd bet against humanity.
@@GGoAwayy The path of 1000 miles begins with one step....Up until a few years ago, the technology to make these cups didn't exists. I think you're missing the bigger point, which is we need to focus on the THINGS THAT WORK. Bill's right that we're all hypocrites, but not all of that is just "humans don't want to do it". Most of it is that humans were provided erroneous information (like plastic recycling ability) and these programs were pushed by the plastics industry. What we need is to truly unite our efforts into the top 3-4 impact areas. Already auto manufacturers are putting more and more aluminum into cars. Aluminum recycled content is climbing. However, only a SMALL portion of states are deposit states. Until laws change this, it constricts the amount of aluminum available for recycled products. And guess who lobbies against the deposit laws? Steel, plastic, and importers.
@@cuthwulf I think I grew up when eco awareness really took off... I still have that "all the beauty" rainforest rap song in my head from watching it in school in the early 90s. Maybe things would have been different under President Al Gore. But Ive been waiting... over 30 years for ANY sign that people are making an effort to change. All I see are little things like this... we can't solve climate change without giving up a materialistic consumerism lifestyle. We cant solve it without fully banning polluting industries. Attempts to band aid our current lifestyle choices into something slightly more eco friendly is not going to work. It has not worked. Things have actually gotten worse over the past 30 years, even with constant messaging. Even with schools teaching generations of kids about this stuff. We will not change until the end of us is imminent, and by then it will be too late. I hope Im not around to see it.
oh so the solution is more centralised planning of products' life cycle who would've thought
The analogy to aluminum doesnt hold. It is exponentially cheaper to recycle aluminum than to produce new aluminum. It is an economic issue and that is what drives hearts and minds
"The real technological problem is how *people* are wired." Now that is a powerfully true sentence.
truest statement there is. We're all just selfish by nature. In order for us to save ourselves, we need to transcend our nature. I have no idea how we do that...
As a british comedian put it "if i have to press a button that releases a big plume of black smoke and in exchange i can see my child grow up fed and healthy and able to have a family of his own, its a button i and any other father WILL press without any hesitation".
the cost of our advancement in technology and quality of life is that big black plume of smoke that comes out of factories every day and we have 2 options: we either progress our technology further and faster to get to where we don't need that smoke or we go back to the 1700s... and most of what the clueless climate activists propose is us going back to the 1700s.
@@Tyler-zl6yw nope. That’s not it. There is no problem with how people are wired. And We are not selfish by nature. That’s the wrong word. At least by my definition of selfish which is „never considering anyone else’s goals or interests and solely focusing on your own interest, irrelevant of its consequence for other people.“ but that’s not what humans tend to do or be. Capitalism is not a selfish system either. It’s literally a system built on competence and providing value with that competence to other people. Mutual value provision. That’s what it is. And it’s that very true nature of recognizing we are all slightly different from one another, with different talents and strengths, and wanting to work on those talents and wanting to improve our lives with those is exactly why capitalism works. What people need to transcend is their inner demons. Their lower nature. Which is temptation, lying, cheating and so forth. Those things are selfish. Putting yourself first isn’t selfish, as long as you aren’t willfully damaging someone innocent to get your way. Of course you should put yourself first. The only way your life can be fixed is if you fix it. The only way everyone’s life gets better is if everyone takes responsibility for their own life. Everyone has that responsibility over their lives and it’s impossible to outsource it. I’d even argue that ideologies that preach sacrificing yourself in its extreme are satanic. Ideas that don’t recognize the sacred nature of the individual and it’s divine influence on its life are satanic. How people when they’re disciplined are wired is how they should be wired. If they act with the genuine Axiom of not setting out to hurt people, but setting out to provide something of value, that’s exactly what god intended. Those ambitions make the world better for everyone. That’s exactly what improved the circumstances in the west. That’s why everyone in the west is rich. There is nothing wrong with the way people are wired. You own life has to be your highest priority, because if everyone acted like that, within the moral framework of a society and with the intent of genuine improvement, everyone would be taken care of. And those who can’t do that, be it disabled people or people who have a genetic issue that doesn’t enable them to work and take care of themselves, that 10% of people need to be fed by society. But you can’t change how people are wired, in fact, it isn’t even desirable to do so. It’s desirable to transcend the evil. What’s desirable is raising awareness that everyone can be much more than they are right now. But being much more does not mean putting yourself below others. That’s the wrong way. Quite the opposite is true. Your interests should matter to you the most, because you’re not living anyone else’s life. But within a societal context. Hope this added value.
@No Name that’s not quite how that works
@@jpteknoman if there is only co2 in that smoke it’s not even an issue. 😂 just helps food production and plant life and makes the planet more inhabitable. But yes, you are right, the environmentalist approach is pure insanity and yes, that is where it’s headed. That smoke… that’s not the cost of our advancement. That is not accurate. It’s not a cost. And it isn’t destructive. It was one of the Blessings that we could extract energy from dead dinosaurs. There isn’t anything wrong with fossil fuels if you apply catalytic converter tech to it. Those who say there is don’t understand it. Same with people who are against capitalism. If you’re against it it means you don’t understand the first thing about it. Same if you’re for communism/socialism.
Bill is sounding more and more logical every time I hear him
He has no choice and he knows it.
Except here where he's still being a climate change emergency how. He's bang on about the hypocrisies. We spent how many years separating our garbage? For what? And then there are the electric cars....what absolute BS. Every. Single. Person. Going to Davos flies private. Tunaburger sailed around the world bitching and moaning about her "childhood" on some special yacht that required such an elite crew to sail her, that they had to fly them over!! (No doubt by private jet.) Climate change is real. But it's not an emergency. And even if it was, it wouldn't be because of our minimal contributions. All we are seeing is SJWs virtue-signalling as if that could produce energy itself.
I grew up in the 70s, when big factories were producing a lot of pollution and nearly every day, people were running around screaming that the sky was falling, due to this pollution, that we'd have forever....10 years down the road, and pollution levels had dropped significantly.
He's always been like this.
@@ouranos0101 no he hasn't and he's said as much
And now he's labeled as a "righty"
A wise man named George Carlin once said "The planet is fine, humans are fucked"
Such a great skit. The list of all the crap the planet has survived in the billions of years since it formed and then "And we think that some plastic bags and aluminum cans are a threat to the planet?!" Love George
Tell that to Mars
It's a good joke, but legitimately incorrect. The fact that species are dying at an alarming rate, as well as ecosystems being destroyed. That's not just "humans are fucked". If what the planet was, is sustainable for life, than what it is becoming is unsustainable for life. Not just human life. Most life. If the earth being fine is defined as being sustainable for life, then it would seem it is not doing fine.
@@BadassRaiden Bingo!
@@HuckFlynn Yeah the hidden meaning he himself might have missed.
Absolutely the "planet" will survive. But not all of it's ecosystem and fauna. That includes us. It's actually sobering to frame the problem not just in saving the whales, but saving our civilization. Because as the previous commentor is noting, Mars is a planet too.
Jimmy Carter flies commercial, he shakes hands with every passenger.
I didn't realize he was in such dire financial straits.
So it's three people then. 😂
As our only moral, non lying president I’m not surprised.
He’s literally stuffed by by taxidermist and rides in baggage
@@tres311
Unlike the senile stiff we have now who has to sleep in a vat of formaldehyde.
Celebrities and politicians "do what we tell you to do, and don't do what we do because we're hypocrites"
They are. However that doesn't change the fact that continued burning of fossil fuel will be at our own peril and that of of flora/fauna from around the world.
Thank you Mr Maher for actually showing how crazy things really are !
For a change.
Whoee! Your gigs just keep getting funnier Bill! In this case, cuz you were honest enough to jab yourself with self-deprecating humor - at your own hypocrysy! Beautiful stuff man! And keep sticking it to the man - the elites that think they can lord it over us - by flying private! 😅
I worked at a college where every wall had a recycling bin. All of it got thrown right into the dumpster. but hey at least it was separated for a moment
Witnessed the same at a food court, people couldn't figure out the sorting !! They threw everything in the closest can! If they wanted to be serious they would need an attendant to sort the garbage!! They would have to increase the price of the meals to pay the person at the garbage cans! We are all going to pay for that later, nobody wants a dump near their house.
That’s the dilemma, but Pembroke Pines, FL is collecting garbage and recycling together and separating them themselves
That's too bad because students could make significant money recycling those cans.
In Germany, they really recycle. They care about their country. Hence, they are disciplined about recycling.
Holy shit, dude. That’s horrible.
The world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
Well... that leaves me torn in two.
I like that
I’m torn…I’m not sure if I think you should stfu, or if I feel you should stfu!
@@kz.m4251 well-said 🔲🔳
sometimes Maher makes you smarter, sometimes he makes you dumb
You're a gem, Bill. We aren't aligned politically but you're different, and listenable. And of course, funny. Glad you're with us.
He's not with you.
@@jlouise2522
Is he with you? Do you fly on his private jet? Most leftists are impossible to listen to but Bill’s always been funny. That’s what the world needs, not your divisive bs.
@@bevmin7398 Bill isn't left enough for the left anymore. He is on the verge of being labeled a "riGhT wiNg eXtrEMiSt" nowadays.
The thing is, is that people on the right know that climate problems are real. They also know that power hungry leftists will use the climate to power grab, just like they use minorities.
@@bevmin7398 I think he qualifies as a centrist at this point, seeing as he's fairly sane and compassionate.
@@black-aliss
A Classic Liberal, like Jonathan Turley. There are MANY more of them but I can’t think of names right now.
The d’s ARE N a z I s. Look up Operation Paperclip. We’ve never been free. We didn’t win WW2. Another lie. Didn’t have many trials in Nuremberg as was thought. The nazis have been here since the end of WW2. They call themselves democrats. Demonic rats. Pro illegal aliens and ANTI AMERICAN. Open the border for the big replacement. The so called “browning of America.” The elite psychopaths have to be put down. They thought they could keep us locked down for TEN YEARS! They have lots of money but ZERO common sense.
A person’s level of dedication or belief in an idea or system can be directly measured by what they are personally willing to sacrifice for it.
This season has started as ruthlessly as ever. Great show. Great work.
I was wondering where he was going with that, but he nailed it…
Maybe next year he'll have a full awakening and realize climate change is a giant lie. Climate change is 50 years of C19. Think about what we did the last three years and the harm's it caused. We could have spent 100 billion protecting the elderly and moved on. Instead we sent them back to the homes and spent 5 trillion. The fact people can't see the lie of climate change is the single biggest issue the planet has.
Bill says that only Ed Begley and Greta Thunberg actually walk the walk, instead of just talking the talk. They are both vegan. That is the single most effective way to minimize your environmental footprint according to an Oxford Study, which was the most comprehensive such study done so far. We should walk the walk and go vegan too. There are many other compelling reasons to do so.
The expert panel of the UN found that animal agriculture contributes more to climate change than all transportation combined! They urged mankind to switch to a more plant based food system. Going vegan is the single most effective way to minimize your environmental footprint according to an Oxford study.
Nothing is ever enough with these people, just this morning on the radio I heard some activist group wants to reduce the amount of anesthesia doctors and dentists are allowed to use, cause screw you if you have pain.
Thanks for having the guts to tell it like it is.the Truth
Great work, Bill, greets from Munich, Germany! Hope many in Ger-many would see this and listen to a voice of honesty and reason. And a damn funny one too.
I began listening to Bill a few months ago when I ran across his video with Jordan Peterson. I appreciate his viewpoints. As a Libertarian I disagree with a lot of his views but I also agree with him on a lot. What I really like about him is that he does not just run with whatever his “side” says or does. There are very few public figures out there that call out the ridiculousness on their own side.
George carlin nailed this in his stand up .
Bill is a big fan of George's work.
also Richard Jeni
Carlin said we call Israeli terrorists soldiers, and Palestinian freedom fighters terrorists. Carlin was insightful. Maher keeps bringing on these Zionists. Bari Weiss tried to cancel her professors because they advocated for Palestinian rights, and against Israeli apartheid (Jewish supremacy). He brings war criminals like Netanyahu. I thought his audience didn’t like cancel culture or racism? Hypocrites on the left , racist on the right.
I admire you always sharp and ahead of your time 💖💖💖
I did stop flying in 2014. Also sold my 2nd (and last) car in 2011. I walk/bike/bus/train everywhere. It's a healthy and relaxed way to live.
Thank you. A person who lives according to his values. If only Bill Maher lived according to his values instead of his immediate comforts.
Good for you!now let me live how I think best. Deal?
Once again, his commentary faithfully hits the mark. I've tried of counting cars that idle uselessly each morning so someone's backside is warm when they start driving. Thanks, Bill, for stating the truth - everyone believes environmentally responsible practice is someone else's job.
plagiarizes. the mark, you mean. conservatives have said this for over 2 decades
Warming the car up also ensures the windows are properly defrosted - a legit safety precaution. if the driver is living up to their responsibilities, they are using that idling time to clear all the snow off the top of the vehicle - the entire vehicle, including the roof and the license plates. I have a bigger problem with remote starters who leave their stereos on, driving home in afternoon with ambient noise all around. Because an appropriate volume at 4 or 5 pm is going to be really loud at 6 am when you hit the remote starter, and your car is on the street opposite everyone else's bedroom.
@@user-hz9om2ry3h enough with your virtue signaling. it's beyond nauseating and immature. as if YOU aren't a polluting member of the community.
Virtue signaling Aholes amuse me. I have an acquaintance that gave me crap for my "gas guzzling" old car. I was told to drive a hybrid, like him. He wasn't exactly amused when I pointed out that him getting a new car every 4 years or so all ready hurts the environment more than my 2005 Impala I've been driving for 17 years. Not to mention I drive about 5500 miles per year, he logs in almost three times that .
@@matts1166 Ever drive behind any Model before 1975? The fumes will choke you out...The emission standards and C converters that act as scrubbers sure changed things. At least old cars had real metal in them to recycle... Modern cars are all Plastic and wires.
The frame is recyclable and the batteries have value but NOT cost effective. Its sort of like spending an afternoon sifting a ton of Sand by Hand for $10 worth of Gold speck.
I was working in a rich dude house once installing an outdoor audio system and he was about to take lunch with his family when I overheard him say: I want some avocados from my farm, so he sent two of the staff on his helicopter to get them. I thought once you count the transport cost those must be some of the most expensive avocados ever. And now Everytime I see a helicopter passing by I wonder what important thing deserves using a helicopter now? Lemons for Margarita's? Run out of toilet paper? Or just forgot his reading glasses
Kobe
Not having kids will help save the planet? Ask Elon Musk about that.
Sounds like you're a little jealous. Now run off and connect speakers.
@@dennisbrower7959 no. Not having kids actually saves the kids from the crazy people now inhabiting the planet 🤷
@@dennisbrower7959 First of: Musk's an idiot. Second: The planet does not need saving. Only the people who would suffer from climate change/pollution. Third: Yes, less humans means less pollution if everything else stays constant. In fact it's the only way in the long term, as humans cannot physically be CO2 neutral. There is some physical limit of how many people can live on earth with a stable environment. Technological advances can only bring us closer to that absolut limit, never past it.
Bill never fails, and this clip is golden.
Only way we will ever fix the problem is inventing our way out of it. You can't stop the forward momentum, you can only guide it in a direction that will make things better.
We will not invent our way out of the problem. We will be faced with a critical juncture and will either adapt or die.
Where I used to live in Lorton, Virginia, we had a power plant that ran on trash. They separated out metal that could be recycled and wood and yard waste that could be chipped, toxic waste that required special processing, and almost everything else went in the furnace that ran the generator. This always seemed like a great system to me so long as you have scrubbers on the exhaust to pull out any toxic emissions.
On the East Coast, a lot of coal-fired power plants have been converted to biomass. They are supposed to function on the burning of trash and other waste. However, many of them simply don't receive enough trash in order to generate the electricity needed. So a result, they started cutting down trees and burning wood. The kicker is that Biomass plants have been deemed "renewable" and receive the same subsidies as wind and solar. Basically, they are considered carbon-neutral because they supposedly plant a tree for every tree they cut down. It's ridiculous because it takes a sapling decades to draw in the same amount of carbon that was put in the atmosphere from burning a tree.
Like the scrubbers they have for coal plants that remove 96-98% of pollutants.
@@gacitizen2 Exactly. So how would you assess that? Was trash to steam a good idea? On the surface it would seem so.
@@gacitizen2 I agree, but I do like the idea of burning our mountains of trash instead of burying it. I remember reading years ago about a trailer park (California, I think) that had been built over a landfill. The landfill was emitting so much methane that they were able to stick pipes through the blacktop and use the gas to burn tiki torches.
@@gacitizen2 BTW, the trash to steam plant was in operation the whole time I lived there - 2003 to 2017 - and it must have been profitable because the plant had a major fire around 2013 and they rebuilt it.
George Carlin. Nothing else need be said.
That is correct, sir.
Who's George Carlin?
William Munny -- he was that bearded dude who did that famous "Baseball vs. Football" monologue...aaaaaaand some other rant about seven dirty words you can't say on television that never really caught on nor influenced 3 future generations of comics too much...
So true, thank you for speaking the truth, Bill
Getting rid of plastic liners and bags for garbage, is a good start...
"The planet has survived ice ages and polar reversals. The planet is going to be fine, it's the people who are fucked. The plant is going to shake us off like a bad case of fleas"
but lots of animals, plants, insects are becoming extinct too and might never come back .... !
"Pack your shit folks, we 're going away".
Funny, unfortunately it's not true. Humans will hang on like burrowed in ticks while we kill off 50%-90% of the other species and warm the planet an extra 3-4 degrees C to a toasty hellscape.
@@nr619
Extinction is natural
Humans are not responsible for extinction, they've just over the years contributed to it than any other species..
They don't even come close to Natural Disasters..
No
Bill's New Rules were like climate change.
The audience wasn't sure at first, but they really warmed up by the end.
I think he messed up the definition of insanity.
It threw the audience off.
A voice gets downed out by the rabble. A million voices together can make a beautiful sound. Everyone has to do their part. There is literally no other way through.
@@harrybarker3269
Drowned out you mean
They definitely didn't treat it as an emergency
I see what you did there...
One of your best Bill! Truth that’s undeniable.
The big problem with recycling is the stuff that’s recycled is inherently low value, and ends up costing more to recycle it, then use new products. There are a few exceptions Aluminum being one, due to it’s huge energy requirement to process ore into new. So much ends up being virtue signaling.
I flew on a corporate twin prop plane in the 70’s and it was so much better than commercial, new light jets have to be a dream in comparison.
So what's the solution? Doing nothing? Just letting it _all_ go to waste because ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ?
And believing it's virtue signalling is just projection on your part. We don't do it because we want to _look_ good, we do it because we know it's such a stupidly, desperate huge tide of unregulated industrial polluters, forcing terrible habits from us ("your only options are a paper-thin paper bag, a terribly thin plastic bag that's effectively single-use because just putting bread in it will rip it, or a double-thick plastic bag made from five times as much plastic") and corrupting politicians so nothing ever stops them, that we're limited to doing something, anything to make even a small reduction in impact. Companies and countries play games trading abstract carbon credits; what can we do that doesn't amount to a total loss of hope and control? If you can't answer that, don't turn it around on us and say it's just to look good.
@@Zzyzzyzzs there are not many easy solutions. My recycle company won’t take glass anymore. The extra truck to pick up recycling is a waste since frequently it in up in the landfill with all the other trash.
Manufactures strive to make the most economical products and thus use the lowest cost materials to be competitive.
At an automotive recycling conference almost 30 years ago. Someone asked what it would take to increase the recycle percentage of the automobile. I mentioned that if higher valued materials and components would make recycling more attractive and profitable, but it make them too expensive to buy. They made some components easier to disassemble and that made them easier to be stolen.
They just had a climate conference in Switzerland and the attendees arrived in 1,500 private jets! No plane pooling for those folks!
Do what makes sense wherever it’s possible. However, mandatory solutions have yet to very successful.
Yeah. When the thing with the most value is _money._
@@Virjunior01 yup, a true fact of life.
The big problem with not recycling is so obvious that deflecting from it seems nonsensical. "Virtue signaling" is a wingnut shame term for acting and thinking unselfishly.
SO Spot ON! - I saw Ed Bagley at O'Hare some years ago - flying commercial.
Also see George Carlin on his save the planet bit. Phenomenal
Yeah, we should all just die. Then the planet will recover on its own, and we won’t have to worry about it anymore. Because we’ll all be dead. I’d like to at least attempt to find an adequate enough solution that would allow us to continue living. I’d rather die looking for a solution, that just give up because “there’s nothing we can really do anyway”. 🙄
George was amazing though. Still miss him
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Your welcome!
@@Pretermit_Sound the idea that the planet will "recover" on it's on is scientifically incorrect. Please learn about ecology before you start making uneeucated claims like an idiot.
@@Pretermit_Sound Exactly, I don't know how people miss that obvious part. The planet doesn't need to include us, or even a green ecosystem.
@@BadassRaiden what? I totally agree with you. I wasn’t making that claim. I was being snarky. You obviously aren’t familiar with the Carlin sketch the OP was referring to. I support climate science, and think it’s imperative that we do all we can to mitigate the effects of climate change. If you read my comment, I also said it wouldn’t matter anyway if the planet could heal itself without us, because we would be extinct as a species. Maybe don’t be so quick to call people names. Cheers ✌🏻
Bill is one of the last few media people with common sense.
About 50/50, and that's fair.
I worked for a company that had a corporate jet and if you had enough people going to the same place and the executives weren’t using it, average employees were allowed to use it. After being on it once, it was the only way to fly and I got to fly on it several more times. Drive your car right up to the hanger, no TSA lines or TSA at all, and plenty of beer and really great snacks for the flight home.
Sounds like heaven. I got upgrade to first class in a commercial jet once, because I gave up my regular seat twice to people who wanted to sit together. First class wasn't even private, and I loved it. I only imagine what flying private is like!
I have been on a few corporate jets. I wasn't all that impressed. I would not go out of my way to fly private.
@@frankyouell7561
Oh, so you'd rather take a cab or park your car in some distant lot and shuttle to the terminal, walk long distances in the terminal, take your shoes off and wait for long periods of time in a TSA line, sit in crowded seats with no elbow room, potentially listen to wailing babies, and pay outrageous prices for a beer. To each his own I guess but I'd take private every time. And maybe the strangest part of all of your reply is that private jet hangers are usually located closer to the airport entrance so you don't have to go out of your way, it's actually closer.
Obviously it's nicer/ easier, but the point is whether it's really that necessary. The point of flying is still to get from a to b, both things do that. Could also still go first class if you want a nice drink
@@kurtsudheim825
Obviously, anything that can be done can be reduced to its most rudimentary purpose, including wearing clothes, driving a car, decorating a house, etc. but for me, a part of what makes life interesting is doing things in style rather than in dullness. So drive the best and most stylish car you can afford and fly by corporate jet if you can because it's way more stylish than flying by one of the major carriers. For some people, the duller things may work because they get the job done but I for one want to enjoy the finer things while I'm here while still living within my means.
I’ve said for years that the only solution to recycling is restricting what companies can use for their products. You can’t expect consumers to recycle single use plastics, but it’s possible to put the responsibility on the companies for producing single use plastics, otherwise they face being fined. Will it piss consumers off to see products packaged in something other than plastic? Probably. However it’s a lot harder to be environmentally friendly when a lot of states/counties don’t have the infrastructure for recycling, and your only choice of buying food and drinks are packaged in plastics that can’t be recycled.
When I lived in Florida, I took a load of trash to the local incinerator. While I was there, a city recycling truck ( you know the big blue ones that collect all of your household recycling) pulled in next to me and dumped all of those recyclables into the exact pile I was dumping regular trash in. A bulldozer pushes all of this into the incinerator. So much for recycling.
Better than shipping it overseas to countries with few environmental laws and dumping it. Whole cities are becoming unliveable, cancer rates are high, and some places in Nigeria are always dark due to burning plastic "recycled" in the US.
That’s why they quit the recycling industry.
Florida sucks
I used to work at a bank where they had the same 3 bins - compost, trash, recylcle and I would carefully separate my items into the apprpriate bins. One day , I stayed 5 minutes late after we were closed for business, and saw the janitor emptying all the bins into the same trash can. I'm like - what the heck, what am I doing this for??
If liberals walked the walk it would be easier to take them seriously
Damn, he was on fire in that skit! 👏👌
Yes, and somebody will inhale all that poisonous smoke.
@@mikemondano3624 ok
Bill is becoming more and more Red as time passes
We need to get back to returning, washing, and reusing glass bottles instead of using containers that fill the landfills. imo
The new thing we need to try is exercising some f'ing moderation, overall. Eating, shopping, and medicating ourselves along sensible rather than 'paranoid hoarder with an arsenal' guidelines.
But that would mean less ‘growth..’
Yep. Just stopping eating beef would solve most of the planet's deforestation problems instantly.
And turning off the internet to give the electron gobbling servers a break.
I hear it a lot from people saying they want to change our make a difference but there actions say different. My soon to be home is a small 14x40 cabin. Use less and keep less.
@@Outlaw982 Nice--enjoy! I live tiny myself now (not for ethical reasons but due to a hurricane) and i confess i love it. One good-sized room is cheap, a dream to clean, and not overwhelming when i inevitably misplace crap :)
Beautiful work. The writing. The delivery. The honesty. And the message. Bravo. Fucking bravo.
One of Bill’ best dialogues.
Lots of fans in Australia.
copying what conservatives have literally said and written for the last 2 decades
Monologues*
Pardon my grammar-you’re right.
Her laugh is the best part of the video.
Bill, you and I are of an age that we can remember how flippin' dirty we were back in the 60's and 70's. The environment is vastly cleaner than it was when we were young.
I am of that age also. The problem with his coal energy supplied statistic is that the reason why it has stayed the same % is because coal use has increased in a lot of places like China and India. It has decreased in the US and our coal fired electrical plants that are still operating hardly have any Co2 escaping out of their smoke stacks compared to the filthy stacks overseas.
@@richardlug6139 True, as far as it goes. Many, if not most, by now, of the US coal plants switched years ago from coal to natural gas and those that remain are likely to switch, as well. We truly need more nuclear! That is the solution to these issues.
Thank you!! Finally someone has acknowledged that we HAVE made improvements over the decades! I’m so tired of young people demanding “immediate” change and they are totally ignoring the fact that we have been changing dramatically for decades. AND, we will continue to improve as we discover new technologies and improvements current ones. I’m so tired of the “but, the glass is half empty crowd”
And yet the environmentists will still say the world is going to end in 10 years, 20 years no wait just 10 more years...and it never does. We can be responsible I like clean air and water as much as the next person but seriously "save the planet"?. Aluminum cups or paper straws are going to save a planet that was fine before we came along and will be fine when we are long gone. As humans we have yet to understand the "international law of unintended consequences". We get righteous and try to fix something that isn't really broken and end up killing 10 species of wildlife due to wind turbines off the coast (because no one wants them in their backyard). Or have people freeze to death because oops we didn't make our green energy machines cold proof. The environmental movement leaders are grifters. Any time there is that much money in something it is corrupt. Read Michael Crichton's State of Fear. Great read but footnoted and documented if you want to have your eyes opened.
I agree, the change has been for the positive but now the extremists are going way to far.
That's how I feel about the over packaging... it's the CORPORATIONS that are packaging their stuff need to do better. I can only reuse so much.
You can choose not to buy wt all from those big, bad corporations, dear. How many pears of shoes do you have? Shut up.
Their bottom line is improved by cutting costs. How do you figure they are over-packing?
@@kommisar. For instance...the salads I like have 6 individual plastic bags total for ONE salad. One bag each for the croutons, dressing, bacon bits, cheese, seasoning, and the bag that contains everything inside. 6 plastic bags for a salad. Cost cutting only goes so far. I have many other examples of this.
@@tioswift3676 Yes, and you know why they do this? Because people like different amounts of that stuff on their salads. By packaging the stuff individually, it attracts more consumers by giving them the ability to control just how much of those toppings they have mixed in their salads. People can be picky. Providing consumers more choice over their salad toppings gives the salad companies a way to out-compete one another.
No, cost cutting doesn't only go so far. They do not purposefully over-package their goods. Their whole goal is to maximize their profits. They have all kinds of experts and meetings to make sure they are not wasting supplies.
@@kommisar. I get what you’re saying…but this is too much waste. here’s a more egregious example. I get premade meals every week, put them in the microwave. And have a great tasting fresh meals in 3 minutes. Each meal comes in its own divided plastic dish, covered in plastic film. Inside the plastic dish with the food is usually 1-3 plastic containers with lids (butter, sour cream, diced chives/parsley, etc). Then on top of the plastic dish, there’s a printed cardboard cover that each individual dish slides into, which tells you about that single meal. On top of that, each cardboard and plastic dish is plastic coated. On top of that, the giant cardboard box these meals come in, also have 5-6 thick plastic bags filled with a gel substance that they freeze and put into the box to keep things cold. On top of that, they place a 1 inch thick cardboard + insulation material which envelopes the entire inside of the box. On top of that, between 10-20 paper inserts go into the box, repeating what each individual meal has in it (already on the printed cardboard), plus offers for new products and other things. This might be a better example than the salad one.
he's absolutely right about how people are wired.
It’s too expensive to recycle, most supposed recycling goes to the landfills. The joke is on the public that has been duped.
So on point. And respect for being honest.
Except the climate fact. There is nothing wrong with the climate. It is just used to take your rights away by Big (Brother) Government.
Hmm? What exactly do you mean? Could you explain?
When the WEF starts to do ZOOM meetings vs over a THOUSAND FUCKING PRIVATE JETS a hundred times a year: THEN I will know it's time to take shit seriously. Until then? I'm not going to worry about the two trips to town I make to go grocery shopping.
I heard/read somewhere that even Greta and her parents have a private jet, ffs. It was when she staged the arrest. So she is full of shit too.
Yes my employer keeps insisting I go back to work for NO REASON. They should be jumping at the pollution saved from me working at home... but they aren't. Why is that?
@@shannonbrice8012 Yes if climate change was real the government would not be concerned about downtown businesses. But it isn't real ... so you see their priority is that.
and carbon offset it 😄 waiting for Bill to take on that next
@@CelineNoyce because bean counters need something to count, and unfortunately our actual work output is not an important metric for many employers.
Love you, Bill!
Al gore in his Oscar winning documentary said the Arctic would be gone by 2013 and polar bears would be extinct. Polar bears are thriving right now and not even on endangered list. Media was also fearmongering about 10 years ago, citing "experts" that were predicting Florida would be underwater in 7 years. Australia even warned in 1999, that in 20 years, there would be no more snow. They just had historic record snowfall. Climate has always been changing. That's why ice age is cyclical and Sahara desert was lush 10,000 years ago.
What's happening now is not normal climate change. It's not the sun (irradiance is declining), heat islands, or Milankovitch cycles. Ignore the alarmists like Gore, ignore the bloggers, and focus on the scientific literature (Nature, Science, PNAS, etc.). Temperature is rising with atmospheric GHG levels, and sea level rise has been accelerating now for 60 years. Meanwhile, skeptics cannot explain this rise over the past 60 years no matter how many goofy hypotheses they toss out and get debunked. When are they going to find that variable that explains this warmingif it isn't GHGs?! WHEN?!
radiofreealbemuth, open your eyes because you've been conned!
Stop listening to politicians and start listening to the scientists.
You have to appreciate Bill Maher's candor.
This is one of those Bill Maher rants where you just have to run the seek bar back to to the beginning after he's done and listen to it again.
The Fox News talking point about gas stoves was bad enough the first time.
@@procurement3681 he said that banning gas stoves won't have the desired effect on climate change. Bill and fox news are both right about that.
@@procurement3681 Wasn't fox's outrage in response to gas stoves being supposedly cancerous, not bad for the climate? I think it's a different thing
Sure i find it a bit tedious, but then again the reason humanity has no chance of surviving long term is you, and people like you. So enjoy seeking the bar. Personally i dont give a damn as ive accepted that there are people like you.
@@mokiloke so you believe we're gonna die because we're skeptical of people telling us to use a bit less and save the world while at the same time being full of shit themselves? Cuz that's all this video was about. If academy award speeches are the key to save humanity long term humanity then we are gonna be just fine.
The truth is so refreshing.
Finally, you uploaded it. Been wondering what happened here. 'Cause it should've been uploaded on Friday.
Same
Yes!
The person that supposed to upload it was quiet quitting. j/k
Yeah know, generally people are expected to pay for his show through and HBO subscription. Glad we can get some content for free.
@@YouAreStillNotablaze But we're getting less and less of it. I probably wouldn't pay for it, but even if I wanted to, HBO max isn't available in my country...
What's your point? _"WE gotta do something! (Well, not ME, 'cause I'm rich and important. Ha ha ha.)"_ Brilliant. More wisdom from grumpy old Bill.
on point
He's usually good at understanding his audience, but private flying is quite unrelatable and it distances him greatly from the average man.
He’s exactly right. If you ever flown first class you’d understand.
@@will88TFs4Life Probably the intention was they shouldnt feel guilty of anything?
@@iamgodiamgod638 I've flown first class. I still don't need it, or a private jet.
The only thing that‘s going to help is innovation. Not berating others, not being hysterical, not banning stuff and certainly not throwing soup at paintings.
It says it right In the name ACTORS! Geez Louise.
"Environmentalists don't give a shit about the planet. You know what they're interested in? A Clean place to live. Their OWN habitat. They’re worried that someday in the future, they might be personally inconvenienced."
-George Carlin
George Carlin told jokes to support his cocaine weed and beer habits! He wasn’t a philosopher or a professor on climate change. He said things on stage that people either thought were funny or didn’t. I wouldn’t quote him to try and make a point about about people who spend their lives studying and researching climate change! They unlike GC…base their research on facts…GC said things he hoped made people chuckle!
I'll bet you're a hoot at funerals
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Rediculous generalization, "environmentalists" aren't all the same thing, and cats like Deep Green Resistance, the Anarcho Primitivists and Green Anarchists are not messing around at all. That being said the Earth Liberation Fronts tactics were questionable of course.
@@brentmason6782 Calm down, self-important human. We will be extinct some day, so stop wasting your short life trying to "fix" a planet that is a meaningless cosmic accident.
Your right…keep quoting dead comedians to make your point about a Bill Maher segment on climate change. It’s so rational and timely! As far as humans being extinct in time…maybe you can start that chain of events…No one will miss you!
I was an avid recycler until I worked at a large distribution warehouse plus a large retail store. I realized no matter what I do will ever matter with the amount of plastic waste that was generated on a daily basis.
This is a fallacy because you're comparing your own individual efforts to waste generated in the service of thousands of people
@@katanaman444 It's really not. Your individual household rubbish is trivial compared to industrial waste, and even if it did matter 95-100% of it doesnt get recycled anyway, its simply waste.
Recycling by in large is a fallacy.
We have to do something while flying a private plain . Or claiming we have too many people . Disgusting!
Every little bit helps, Bill!!!!
I would feel guilty flying private as well
Thanks for bringing back the good 'ol, Jetson Generation spirit, Bill.
“I fly private” LOL. As bad as people may look when being brutally honest, there’s something to be admired at the same time! People want to do the right thing, but they also want to sacrifice as little as they possibly can!
That's why nothing matters until it effects ME ! lllol
RULES FOR THEE, not for me.
Sounds like an everything can kiss off moment. The environment is screwed.
Flying is always awful. The best thing about being rich would be forcing everyone to learn patience: they'd have to wait while I arrive by train and boat .
Yes you‘re right, but actually no, you’re wrong, there are people who really make sacrifices consciously and don’t expect to get an award for it, they just do it because they know it’s the right thing. Actually it’s not really a sacrifice in their minds, its just what is needed and isn’t affected by other people’s lifestyles, these don’t change what is the right way.
Rules for thee and not for me. Typical of the elites.
Good Job, Bill! I'm finally able to listen to you without wanting to scream at the screen because of your immense hypocrisy!
I lived in East LA in the 60's and early 70's and I drive down there regularly to see family. The air there is far cleaner now than it was back then and there are infinitely more cars on the road.
The Ed and Greta reference literally LMAO!!! 😂😂😂😂
Amazing. Bill. I love it!!!💪
Everyday, plastic bags in food bins.
Nailed it to the wall Bill. Thanks.
Bari's laugh
Bill is finally funny. I said this ten years ago that there’s so much fodder out there for comedians to mock and make fun of if they’d just stop being politically correct.
I'm not interested in aiding the plans of those who hate me.
I do my part.. I try my hardest not to use plastic bottles and I'm too poor to fly anywhere. I also work from home 3 days a week because gas is so damn expensive. 😂
I try to hold my farts in as long as I can.
@@malachi- it's all we can do..
thanks craigzilla100. you rock!
Tayler Swift will write a song about you holding up the baggage line.
Wow Bill doesn't realize Greta flew to the UN in a private jet 2 months ago?
Thanks Bill for coming “clean”
Bringing my laundry bag to the grocery store to buy dozens of plastic wrapped food items. Somehow the courage is found to make consumers do more, but nothing for Proctor and Gamble or Tyson Foods.
This is a brilliant monologue
Great segment. Go NUCLEAR!
One of your best ever Bill!
As someone who would be considered very conservative by Bill’s standards. I always enjoy his take and am constantly surprised how much we agree on, even though we arrive at the conclusion and our solution is vastly different.
Heartbreakingly true monologue.
I thought that was her smiling.
Wow, you nailed it Bill. Don’t agree with your politics but you use common sense and speak truths.
Real Time's New Rule is comedic and hilarious truth!
Bill Maher awesomeness!
yeah no.
@@AJ-xm4xc Yeah no!
I blocked and spam removed you; yet you stay around like RUclips bacteria!
What is causing all of this waste? Tetra packs. Your milk bottle made of plastic. When I was younger in the 1970's and so on in the UK we had milk bottles made from glass. Soft drinks in glass bottles. We would recycle our milk bottles. We had bottle banks to separate our waste into coloured glass. We even had a scheme to talk back bottles for money so they could go back and get washed, sterilised and reused. We could make some money for bubble gum or chocolate bars. Even in the early 80's we were recycling like mad until Tetra packs came along. The plastic bottles you now get which gets thrown away and dumped in either India or Africa. Back then we had it right. We swept up glass on the street and recycled it, we did recycle and we were aware of the damage to the environment.
So where did we go wrong?
Yeah? No, in my country we stopped doing the milk bottles thing because the milkmen started banging the housewives and we had to stop it.
glass bottles are heavier and consume more fuel to transport as well as to manufacture so unless you use reusable glass bottles using disposable glass bottles will waste more energy and emit more CO2
@@TeddyKrimsony We did reuse and recycle glass. Even glass factories took in recycled glass and made them into bottles. It was a thing we did before plastic bottles ever became a thing.
@@WHNorthcote recycling glass requires way more energy than making new plastic bottles also a glass bottle weighs 10x a plastic bottle so transporting glass will require more energy
@@TeddyKrimsony See this is why we are doing nothing. We have advanced in the technology where we can go to glass and recycle now. We don't have the floating garbage pile in the pacific if we just kept to glass. We would not be having micro plastics in sea animals now. Plastic as a usage is good but we are rubbish at recycling that. We were recycling glass for generations. We have better management of furnaces and use natural gas. Before we used wood gas or coal gas which produced a lot of waste. We now have gas which is more better in heating quicker than the black or brown coal we used in the days before we changed our minds on pollution. The smog of London brought the clean air act in the 1950's. We started to change from coal to gas. We have become more adept at using manufacture now than what we did in the 1980's. I admit there is a longer way to go before we have heat energy from fusion but we are going there slowly But from 1980 onwards we have advanced enough to leave plastic bottles and recycle glass, bricks and concrete better than before. We just need that kick to get it going again.
My name is Jim and I use plastic straws. I also refuse to recycle aluminum and paper products, as they do not harm the environment (and use no more energy via recycling) when put in a landfill.
Meanwhile.... every single thing you buy is wrapped in plastic.
You really can't blame the consumer when this is the world we live in-- dictated by corporations / the powerful few. There are plenty of regulations that can be imposed on the companies producing non recyclables
and yet he imposes guilt on us, smart propaganda move
Stop buying stuff, that's your power as a consumer. Then the world we live in won't be dictated by corporations/the powerful few.
Do you even read your own statement?
Glad they finally posted it and you nailed it. I’m in the category ‘I would if I could’. Your honesty is refreshing.
Exactly. Private Jet shaming is so hypocritical by those that do it.
Imagine a world were owning a personal car was financially out of reach for 90% of the population. Those 90% had to travel by public transportation while the other 10% drove around in their own private car. The 90% would shame the 10% because they were driving around privately.
But in reality, we live in a world were 90% of us can own a private car….so we do. Millions and millions of cars, trucks, and SUV’s driving around - despite the fact that it would be “better for the environment“ if we all took mass transportation. We do it, because we can. Same for people who can fly privately - they can. And if more could afford it, they would do it too. Private aircraft shaming is hypocritical.
On another note; World wide, the commercial aviation (that includes private jets being flown by a professional crew), contributes less than 5% of total carbon emissions. Most people, through misinformation spouted by media, assume aircraft are giant pollution machines. Not true. Aircraft engine manufacturers have made tremendous improvements in fuel efficiency, noise pollution, and reliability over the decades.
It is hypocritical to preach climate change when you are a bigger contributor of pollution.
I don’t know Bill but I be willing to bet he owns a big house, even though he’s single. I would also say he owns multiple properties even though he doesn’t have a family. I bet he owns multiple cars. He flies in a private jet.
For years, he preached climate change and talked about how people should sacrifice. What about him?? Where were his sacrifices??
I have more respect for him if he stopped preaching to his audience and to regular middle class people who barely can survive today on meager salaries and low-wages.
Why is it when society wants sacrifices, it’s always the poorest and middle-class that has to do the sacrificing??
Environmentalist will say that Air-Conditioning is bad for the environment. They expect the poor and middle-class to give A/C so the rich can A/C their multiple homes that they are not using… Cough… I mean “so we can protect the environment!”
He needs to start yelling at his politicians. If he wants to see changes to the environmental policy, then he should start there. And he doesn’t have to do it on TV. He has the power, money and influence to reach any politician he wants behind close doors. I rather he do that.
Getting lectured by people who pollute more than I ever could is asinine at best
Hahaha! Love it! So true!
Great piece, and he's completely right. Interesting camera choices, by the way. There were 3 guests, apparently, but the only one they showed was Bari Weiss, over and over again. I heard somebody else laughing repeatedly, who sounded I thought like Donna Brazile, but I'm not sure who it was, because they didn't show anybody else.
That laughed sounded like a female Gary Coleman
It was the idiot Bari Weiss. Bill has now moved in to his late 60's and it shows. CNN wants him to host weeknights so they can move more to the right! The world has gone nuts.
Completely dumb takes
Does anyone else have recycling anxiety? I have a ton of things in my life I have anxiety of throwing away because it's unrecyclable trash. I hate that feeling.
Same here, I don't have anywhere to recycle where I live.
no because i understand that resources are generally infinite on planet earth. recycle all you want; you'll never make a difference. all we have to do is dig and viola .... more iron, more coal.
Air travel has become increasingly wretched.
Good morning, Bill ... the conservative spoke about these issues for 10 years... Congratzzz you just woke up...
It's actually impressive that we reduced the electricity produced from coal by 1% from 1973 to 2019 considering our population doubled during that time, from 4 billion to 7.7billion. I consider that a win.
But doubling our population has insured that we won’t make any sustainable progress on climate change.
It's the percentage of total energy used, not a raw number, so it doesn't matter what the overall number is. We went from 62% non-coal sources to 63% non-coal sources.
@@teresabenson3385
The emissions are ALL that counts. Because of population growth we have basically canceled out all the progress we’ve made in lowering our emissions since 1990. The only significant “drop” was due to shutting down the economy for the pandemic and it’s gone right back up. The left won’t talk about it but mass immigration is the sole reason we aren’t making and won’t make any progress on GHG emissions.
It won't be a win when phenological mismatch hits so hard that it's noticable
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@@at1970 Doesn't really matter. Humans are not special.