Always an amazing, amazing experience listening to Niall Ferguson's analysis and thoughts. Yes, it is a "fatal flaw in the way that Western civilization now functions."
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As a PhD historian Niall should study the weather and climate (they are different) of the areas of the world that are said to be the areas that climate change will affect the most. There’s plenty of data showing that areas that have always flooded will continue to flood in the future, arid areas will continue to be arid, except that they may actually become wetter as climate change warms the oceans and produces more precipitation, forests in the US and likely other areas are actually declining in the annual burn acreage, etc. Media, politicians and politically affiliated/motivated organizations like the IPCC, universities and government funded climate research institutions are not the places to get the truth.
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Thank you very much, John. I love your videos and have watched most of them. Since I have retired I have the time to do a lot more reading and watching this sort of content on the internet; it has given me insights that years ago would almost certainly have passed me by simply because I didn't have the time. I have always known where I stood politically but I didn't fully grasp why. The dots have been joined and your content has played its part. I have listened to Niall Ferguson, a fellow Glaswegian, on many subjects and I have a number of his books on my shelves. He was very interesting on China in this talk but I was hoping to hear much more from him on climate change. I have done quite a bit research since the issue became 'centre stage' and I know we are being deceived about many aspects of it. I have concluded that the idea of anthropogenic climate change is the greatest flight from sanity in the recent history of the human race. There are millionaires and billionaires making even more money out of the multitude of climate scams at the expense of the rest of us and it would be wonderful to see them exposed as the charlatans they are. Could you do a talk or series of talks with some of the prominent sceptical scientists of whom there are plenty?
You have time on your hands and life is short now please if you really want to no what is going on and what is going to happen then may I suggest to you to listen to a man who reads and teaches the word that god has spoken that the things to come it a faith based scripture only (Grace to you ) utube this took me years to find
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I’m only three minutes into this but already I have to thank Niall for saying that China’s economy was “10%” the size of that of the USA rather than “90% smaller” which has become the rage, of late, along with “narrative”
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Brexit didn't cause the polarization. It's a symptom. What did you think would happen when you allowed England to become increasingly subservient to its neighbors?
Thank you John Anderson & Niall Ferguson for doing what the majority of the media, the political hacktocracy & even much of the academic establishment appear morally and intellectually incapable of doing; understanding economic & geopolitical realities and dealing fairly with the public on the basis of that understanding.
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Concering China, I completley disagree with Niall, knowing China for 40 yrs. But, to listen to Nial is just a pleasant experience, in addition to be rare voice in today's Western madness of Polit.Corr. and Emociocracy.
Niall is definitely the pleasant chatter. Maybe John should get Kevin Rudd on to chat about China! haha ;) All jokes aside, former PM Rudd is a very good authority on this topic.
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This kind of discussion is lacking in todays' political landscape whether it be in Australia, the UK or the USA. Or Chechnya too come to think of it. But credit to John Anderson, he was always one of the grown ups in the Howard cabinet...it is a pity the Nats have not produced someone like him since. Thankyou for continuing to contribute to a more civil Australian society John.
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Thanks John. Another great talk about economics, a new way of talking about the subject and including the rest of us. It's a little embarrassing that I suffer a shiver of elation when RUclips notifies me of a new upload.
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Rather than spend $ on infrastructure, Cal has spent $ on 15 million people that arrived with their hands out and the libs all too happy to buy their loyalty. It went from a the ist world to the third in the years since I left.1969 through to now. End of story.
@@charlespeterson3798 I don't know about CA personally, but I know from working wilderness in the South. Since the 70s, environmentalists fought had to end tree harvesting for pulp & paper (even though companies replanted) and they championed "natural" forests by stopping controlled burns. Surprise, surprise, dead brush builds up and a wildfire blows through the place.
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SilvanaDil I wonder, too, what the rationale for buying a mansion on the coast might be if you really believe climate change will cause the coasts to disappear. Aren’t the Obamas spending millions at Martha’s Vineyard? Isn’t Bill Gates spending millions on the Pacific coast?
@@annbrucepineda8093 The Obama's purchased a $14,000,000.00 waterfront house on Martha's Vineyard. If their predictions are correct, seems like a really bad investment.......doesn't it?
@@penpaper4850 I was the official photog that he was speaking at 10 yrs ago and laid out how Chimerica worked and it changed my perspective on the parasitic relationship between the 2 countries. He is brilliant because he tells the truth which is in short supply and high demand.
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He is right Lomberg proposes solutions. Greta like other children just emote on the fears they have been fed, not useful in a practical sense. Screaming the sky is falling do something is not helpful. The message is out now and we need people like Lomerg to assist us find long term answers that won't cripple us in the process. It is a time for calm sanity now!
He's right about the divisive mess being created by brexit. Northern Ireland effectively remains in the EU whilst Scotland is making noise about wanting to leave the UK and rejoin the EU.
If "America First" is not a new point of view on the part of the President, what does it say about all of the people (media, career bureaucrats) who seem so surprised that Trump is expressing it?
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I think to put Brexit down to Boris’s personal ambition is a facile argument. There’s been a strong tradition of Euroscepticism in the UK from the day we joined. Farage was gaining support and it forced the Conservatives’ hand to call for a referendum so the issue was hotting up before Boris touched it.
Curious how wrong he was on at least two important events (just months beforehand); 2020 Biden is the Democratic nominee and Corona virus did in fact become a global pandemic When Niall spoke so definitively of 'sea level rise' I got an incongruous sinking feeling. (space for edit 2030)
China "is responsible for more than half of the percentage of the increase in carbon emissions since 2007" because China is the world's factory. So responsibility for the increase should be shared among the countries whose companies manufacture offshore in China. Manufacturing ridiculously cheap products in China and other low-labour-cost countries like India and Bangladesh creates massive waste as it encourages rampant consumerism of cheap consumer goods that end up in landfills soon after they are purchased. Why mend it when you can replace it with a new one co cheaply. Man-made waste, not man-made climate change, is the problem.
52:20 Niall says that Brexit is what created the political division. It's probably more accurate to say that Brexit just ripped the band-aid of off divisions that were already there under the surface.
Niall is often as brilliant as he is wrong and frankly bonkers. Hit and miss. Likely to talk utter nonsense almost as much as he will be insightful and brilliant. These interviews are great regardless. Subscribed today not before time.
An interesting and relevant discussion (as always) although, sadly, all too brief... more valuable as a model for the way to discuss issues than the issues discussed. Thank You!
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Deng Xiaoping did not say just 'to be rich is glorious' (if he said it at all) he said "Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious". He wanted to harness the power of China's greatest resource, its people, to generate wealth, so that wealth could make China the great nation it once was. After a quiet period, Xi has taken up Deng's vision. Deng did not capitulate to capitalism, he harnessed it.
I'm not a China bull but the country has grown from $100 billion GDP 40 years ago to $12 trillion today. In short their central bank creates debt which is turned into wealth generating economic capacity(infrastructure, industry & tech) - oversupply is exported abroad. This has worked for 40 years, why would it stop now when on an individual base a gap remains with wealthy countries?
Yes blame woolies; the free bag was nothing to do with the plastic bag pollution; it was all about some Woolies exec winning plaudits for 'cost saving' i e making the customer pay. The old free bags were polyethelene so they disintegrated in the tip or under sunlight in weeks/months. The 'new' polyprop/urethane will also end up in the waste stream, a bit later, but will actually take years to disintegrate! So much for their 'green signalling' !
Look at Hong Kong today July 2020 with the implementation of the new security law. Any semblance of freedom or democracy that enters China's sphere of influence has been squashed out of fear of it undermining the party's hegemony. Not only Taiwan need to take notice but all nations is the East Asia, including NZ and AU.
Isn't he another one of those who insisted it was not possible for Trump to become president. He's just another slick charmer up to the gills in self-importance and sophistry.
Climate alarmism and rational discussion Interesting to see them in the same sentence because it ain't happening anywhere else. I think Niall Ferguson nails it.
People with the mindset full of cold war instead of cooperation to solve real challenges that mankind faces are only gonna lead our world to new disasters.
Interesting. But you can tell when it comes to Brexit Ferguson lives elsewhere and his synthesis is based on 'secondary sources' for want of a better term.
Good show John - Naill has a few peers that can come with close with an honest analysis. I have stopped watching Fareed Zakaria from CNN has over the years (since Obama) become apologists to the failures of the disastrous Obama foreign policy and actively attacking Trump. Will never forget the time when Kissenger warned Fareed about how powerful Trump would be
For us to have a rational discussion the people in power need to take on board the issues we are facing. A large part of the growing hysteria is more and more people are seeing the problems of climate change and yet our political / business leaders keep fudging on taking any meaningful action. Various IPCC meetings whereby handpicked scientists have their findings watered down so the politicians and business leaders can carry on business as usual. Unless meaningful action starts to take place by those in power the hysteria will only increase. The counter to this of course is that the elite know full well that were screwed and are trying to keep a lid on it as long as possible to prevent hysteria. a good example is xr calling for a climate emergency ,London signs up but still carries on with the Heathrow extension!. If I were a member of xr I would find that pretty condescending and piss me off even more. Rational doesn't work in this type of environment.
Amazing dude. I've seen interviews with Niall before but this is by far the most insightful against such a broad range of issues. He was 100% on his game.
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*AMERICA:* Can we please SELECT *Niall Ferguson + Jordan Peterson + Douglas Murray* as: President, Vice President + Speaker of the House of Representatives ??? P.S: *Niall Ferguson* for President
I have great respect for Niall, I have read the majority of his books and watched the majority of his documentaries. That said, I think his climate change analysis at the end of this talk left quite a bit to be desired. While some climate activists are admittedly annoying, we all know that Governments, oil companies and certain politicians used any ambiguity they could find surrounding climate change in order to maintain the status quo. This problem should have been addressed in a realistic way decades and generations ago. Climate change should not be seen through a left-right lens, the only discussion should be between effective vs. counter productive strategies. While Niall paid lip service to the issue of climate change, I think it would have been more productive for everyone if he had put his mind toward a discussion about effective strategies for dealing with the crisis.
Continuing the thought of china devaluing their currency: the next effect is offshore investment by rich chinese seeking to get their money out. This benefits the plaves receiving the money in the short term. However, it also makes the chinese into individual global citizens with broader perspectives. This may actually do what the original plans sought to accomplish--move the chinese toward capitalism.
just a couple of things around brexit: * the majority of the political nastiness is coming from the remain side * many who voted leave were accepting there will be an economic cost, nut that this was worth paying to regain sovreignty over borders and economic policies. Leave voters didn't want to be part of a system where the elected MEPs had no power to bring legislation into the European Parliament, and were just vassals giving a rubber stamp to legislation brought to them from the bureaucracy in Brussels.
I doubt there is one European country positively impressed with Trump and I doubt the Germans are any different one way or another and as for business, all countries are equally keen on exporting to China and that includes the UK, also if Britain had an auto industry they would be as keen as the Germans are.
Yeah except for the critisism of China and India regarding emissions. China supplies the world, particularly with useless, nasty plastic gizmos. We buy it without a second thought. It's a more complex problem than simply blaming China.
While true that much is being manufactured in China, standards would still be higher in Western (including Japan, Taiwan and Korea) countries when it comes to manufacturing regulations. Plus there's higher emissions simply by a developing nation transitioning to a developed one. All those cars driven by the growing middle class aren't all Teslas.
I have a great deal of respect for Niall Ferguson, but his take on Brexit is entirely coloured by the fact that he was an advisor to David Cameron, and an ardent Remainer, and his explanantion is therefore asinine. Boris Johnson didn't cause Brexit and he didn't rally 17.4 million people to vote for it. That was something else entirely, i.e. the greatest political rebellion by the British (particularly English) people in modern times, followed by a counter coup by the political, legal and media establishment. That was why people were so angry with politicians. They were asked a question, they gave a clear answer and the establishment then spent the next three years telling them they were wrong, stupid, bigoted and didn't know what they were doing.
Oh dear me. You're one of those right wing cranks aren't you. In referendums, all kinds of people vote for all kinds of reasons. There were a plethora of them for Brexit, in what was a very tight vote. But, hey. Keep in with your romantic day dreaming.
On the topic of brexit, always keep in mind that Ferguson is a personal friend of Cameron. Ferguson also has an internationalist bent to his politics that makes him somewhat tone-deaf to the nationalist sentiment even if he recognizes the inherent flaws of the EU's "federation" experiment.
*I'm sorry.Your prediction of US relationship with China will fall flat. My generation who will one day run things despises Trumpism". I have doubts about President AOC being* a "hawk"
N. Ferguson may rattle as he will, it makes no difference. Suppose I am building an aeroplane. While I’m doing it, N. Ferguson is rattling that it won’t fly. I ignore him. I just keep on building my aeroplane, and it flies. The rattler keeps on rattling. So what? N. Ferguson may rattle as he will - don’t feed the troll. Paul Krugman said that too. N. Ferguson can’t stand that.
People need to wake up if you believe in scripture then it is written how what has happened and what is happened now and how it all turns out is their in scripture it doesn’t matter how we talk but the future is in black and white : if you really want to no the answer then start studying the bible and you will no for your self .
(56:00) The wild fires in california arent occurring because of climate change, they occur because the non native pine trees were brought to california in the 1850's. The fires in the area have been occurring since then. I have to guess that blaming things that have nothing to do with climate change on climate change is an effort to gain "bipartisan" appeal. It won't. Doing things like that just makes you seem like a hack.
Wow this man never ceases to amaze you
This Niall Furgerson made wrong statements many times but he never admitted any of them. Maybe that's why American academic is falling.
Always an amazing, amazing experience listening to Niall Ferguson's analysis and thoughts. Yes, it is a "fatal flaw in the way that Western civilization now functions."
Top-notch discussion between two grownups.
John Anderson does great interviews. And Ferguson is a good chap.
more people need to watch discussions like this. So refreshing to not have people talk over each other and yell at each other.
Great conversation, thanks John! As always, Niall has valuable insights that are astute and spot on. John, please interview Douglas Murray if you can
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As a PhD historian Niall should study the weather and climate (they are different) of the areas of the world that are said to be the areas that climate change will affect the most. There’s plenty of data showing that areas that have always flooded will continue to flood in the future, arid areas will continue to be arid, except that they may actually become wetter as climate change warms the oceans and produces more precipitation, forests in the US and likely other areas are actually declining in the annual burn acreage, etc. Media, politicians and politically affiliated/motivated organizations like the IPCC, universities and government funded climate research institutions are not the places to get the truth.
Niall please do more conversations. When Niall speaks im ears up. Thank you sir
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Thank you very much, John. I love your videos and have watched most of them. Since I have retired I have the time to do a lot more reading and watching this sort of content on the internet; it has given me insights that years ago would almost certainly have passed me by simply because I didn't have the time. I have always known where I stood politically but I didn't fully grasp why. The dots have been joined and your content has played its part.
I have listened to Niall Ferguson, a fellow Glaswegian, on many subjects and I have a number of his books on my shelves. He was very interesting on China in this talk but I was hoping to hear much more from him on climate change. I have done quite a bit research since the issue became 'centre stage' and I know we are being deceived about many aspects of it. I have concluded that the idea of anthropogenic climate change is the greatest flight from sanity in the recent history of the human race. There are millionaires and billionaires making even more money out of the multitude of climate scams at the expense of the rest of us and it would be wonderful to see them exposed as the charlatans they are. Could you do a talk or series of talks with some of the prominent sceptical scientists of whom there are plenty?
You have time on your hands and life is short now please if you really want to no what is going on and what is going to happen then may I suggest to you to listen to a man who reads and teaches the word that god has spoken that the things to come it a faith based scripture only (Grace to you ) utube this took me years to find
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A wonderful, thought-provoking conversation. I am now lusting after one of those chairs. Great interview, John. Cheers
I was thinking the same thing actually.
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I’m only three minutes into this but already I have to thank Niall for saying that China’s economy was “10%” the size of that of the USA rather than “90% smaller” which has become the rage, of late, along with “narrative”
Wow how relevant is this interview for today
An Excellent conversation indeed. Love Niall !!!
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I love him, too-very deep, broad & careful thinker, and that VOICE!
Brexit didn't cause the polarization. It's a symptom. What did you think would happen when you allowed England to become increasingly subservient to its neighbors?
Thank you John Anderson & Niall Ferguson for doing what the majority of the media, the political hacktocracy & even much of the academic establishment appear morally and intellectually incapable of doing; understanding economic & geopolitical realities and dealing fairly with the public on the basis of that understanding.
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A rare intelligent discussion. Absolutely brilliant!
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Concering China, I completley disagree with Niall, knowing China for 40 yrs. But, to listen to Nial is just a pleasant experience, in addition to be rare voice in today's Western madness of Polit.Corr. and Emociocracy.
Niall is definitely the pleasant chatter. Maybe John should get Kevin Rudd on to chat about China! haha ;) All jokes aside, former PM Rudd is a very good authority on this topic.
One of the most insightful interviews I've ever heard.
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Good to see Niall to be back again ...
This kind of discussion is lacking in todays' political landscape whether it be in Australia, the UK or the USA. Or Chechnya too come to think of it. But credit to John Anderson, he was always one of the grown ups in the Howard cabinet...it is a pity the Nats have not produced someone like him since. Thankyou for continuing to contribute to a more civil Australian society John.
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Please put the date in the video title. This is NOT part 3 but a separate interview!
shazmosushi I’ve just found that he’s got 2 other interviews with Niall. So I think the 3 means it’s the 3rd interview with him
Thanks John. Another great talk about economics, a new way of talking about the subject and including the rest of us. It's a little embarrassing that I suffer a shiver of elation when RUclips notifies me of a new upload.
Nothing to be embarrassed about, I feel the same way. John is one of the few people in the current age who makes me proud of Australia.
@@harryradley The following interviewers: John Anderson, Peter Robinson, Peter Whittle, Lionel Shriver have the magic formula - they LISTEN!
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Excellent in every way but one minor point: Niall, California has ALWAYS had a six-month dry season. I know from MUCH more personal experience.
Rather than spend $ on infrastructure, Cal has spent $ on 15 million people that arrived with their hands out and the libs all too happy to buy their loyalty. It went from a the ist world to the third in the years since I left.1969 through to now. End of story.
@@charlespeterson3798 I don't know about CA personally, but I know from working wilderness in the South. Since the 70s, environmentalists fought had to end tree harvesting for pulp & paper (even though companies replanted) and they championed "natural" forests by stopping controlled burns. Surprise, surprise, dead brush builds up and a wildfire blows through the place.
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SilvanaDil I wonder, too, what the rationale for buying a mansion on the coast might be if you really believe climate change will cause the coasts to disappear. Aren’t the Obamas spending millions at Martha’s Vineyard? Isn’t Bill Gates spending millions on the Pacific coast?
@@annbrucepineda8093 The Obama's purchased a $14,000,000.00 waterfront house on Martha's Vineyard. If their predictions are correct, seems like a really bad investment.......doesn't it?
Love Niall, everything he says is right. Why? Because i agree with it.
Hahahahaha
Nothing like thinking for yourself 😉
@@penpaper4850 I was the official photog that he was speaking at 10 yrs ago and laid out how Chimerica worked and it changed my perspective on the parasitic relationship between the 2 countries. He is brilliant because he tells the truth which is in short supply and high demand.
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He is right Lomberg proposes solutions. Greta like other children just emote on the fears they have been fed, not useful in a practical sense. Screaming the sky is falling do something is not helpful. The message is out now and we need people like Lomerg to assist us find long term answers that won't cripple us in the process. It is a time for calm sanity now!
He's right about the divisive mess being created by brexit. Northern Ireland effectively remains in the EU whilst Scotland is making noise about wanting to leave the UK and rejoin the EU.
If "America First" is not a new point of view on the part of the President, what does it say about all of the people (media, career bureaucrats) who seem so surprised that Trump is expressing it?
brilliant - highly informative
Thank you both for the conversation! This is enlightenment 👍
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I really like this guy, although his Brexit view didn't age well!
..nor his Chinese Flu views, nor his Biden views....
I think to put Brexit down to Boris’s personal ambition is a facile argument. There’s been a strong tradition of Euroscepticism in the UK from the day we joined. Farage was gaining support and it forced the Conservatives’ hand to call for a referendum so the issue was hotting up before Boris touched it.
Your worst case scenario, Biden, came true, Mr. Ferguson. Pretty insightful.
Curious how wrong he was on at least two important events (just months beforehand);
2020 Biden is the Democratic nominee and
Corona virus did in fact become a global pandemic
When Niall spoke so definitively of 'sea level rise' I got an incongruous sinking feeling.
(space for edit 2030)
China "is responsible for more than half of the percentage of the increase in carbon emissions since 2007" because China is the world's factory. So responsibility for the increase should be shared among the countries whose companies manufacture offshore in China. Manufacturing ridiculously cheap products in China and other low-labour-cost countries like India and Bangladesh creates massive waste as it encourages rampant consumerism of cheap consumer goods that end up in landfills soon after they are purchased. Why mend it when you can replace it with a new one co cheaply. Man-made waste, not man-made climate change, is the problem.
Scotland voted 2/3 Remain. That is a clear majority, but not my notion of "overwhelming".
I do get the feeling Mr Ferguson has his finger in the air more than on the pulse
hahaha - is that a comment on his gesticulating or a criticism of his scholarship?
52:20 Niall says that Brexit is what created the political division. It's probably more accurate to say that Brexit just ripped the band-aid of off divisions that were already there under the surface.
1:00:00 getting "back" to rational discussion on climate change.
I wonder when or where was the "back"? pre Kyoto, Thatcher?
Rational discussions went out of fashion after 1918, when general voting for everyone was introduced. Most voters do not vote rationally.
@@roodborstkalf9664 How do you know which group you belong to and how you know you are not affected by confirmation bias?
Niall is often as brilliant as he is wrong and frankly bonkers. Hit and miss. Likely to talk utter nonsense almost as much as he will be insightful and brilliant. These interviews are great regardless. Subscribed today not before time.
What points was he "bonkers" on?
CosmoDeus If you have to ask.... You will never get it.
Tune Safari You seem like a fan = fanatic.. He is wrong about many things and right about many things. Brilliant and bonkers depends on the topic.
An interesting and relevant discussion (as always) although, sadly, all too brief... more valuable as a model for the way to discuss issues than the issues discussed. Thank You!
I rate Ferguson highly and think Anderson is one of politics' most likeable fuddy-duddys, but come on! Echo chamber much?
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How much has the world changed since then hey? And how wrong were you about Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden? And also Donald Trump's approval numbers?
Thank heavens for Brexit! Good for Boris Johnson on this count.
Deng Xiaoping did not say just 'to be rich is glorious' (if he said it at all) he said "Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious". He wanted to harness the power of China's greatest resource, its people, to generate wealth, so that wealth could make China the great nation it once was. After a quiet period, Xi has taken up Deng's vision. Deng did not capitulate to capitalism, he harnessed it.
I'm not a China bull but the country has grown from $100 billion GDP 40 years ago to $12 trillion today. In short their central bank creates debt which is turned into wealth generating economic capacity(infrastructure, industry & tech) - oversupply is exported abroad. This has worked for 40 years, why would it stop now when on an individual base a gap remains with wealthy countries?
so china is 50% of increasing emissions and Australian's can't have plastic bags...
Yes blame woolies; the free bag was nothing to do with the plastic bag pollution; it was all about some Woolies exec winning plaudits for 'cost saving' i e making the customer pay. The old free bags were polyethelene so they disintegrated in the tip or under sunlight in weeks/months. The 'new' polyprop/urethane will also end up in the waste stream, a bit later, but will actually take years to disintegrate!
So much for their 'green signalling' !
Are all the 'new' bags 'Made in China' ?
Look at Hong Kong today July 2020 with the implementation of the new security law. Any semblance of freedom or democracy that enters China's sphere of influence has been squashed out of fear of it undermining the party's hegemony. Not only Taiwan need to take notice but all nations is the East Asia, including NZ and AU.
Watching this in sep 2020 like to see a discussion between them now.
He certainly didn't get a lot of things right, did he?
Isn't he another one of those who insisted it was not possible for Trump to become president. He's just another slick charmer up to the gills in self-importance and sophistry.
Climate alarmism and rational discussion
Interesting to see them in the same sentence because it ain't happening anywhere else.
I think Niall Ferguson nails it.
When talking about Climate Change there are 3 words to always keep in mind. COUPLED...NON-LINEAR...CHAOTIC. Those 3 words define the global climate.
People with the mindset full of cold war instead of cooperation to solve real challenges that mankind faces are only gonna lead our world to new disasters.
Actually on of these rare occasions that I find myself in overall agreement with Niall.
Interesting. But you can tell when it comes to Brexit Ferguson lives elsewhere and his synthesis is based on 'secondary sources' for want of a better term.
Really? I'm in the UK and I'd say he's absolutely right
@@zeddeka You agree with him, that doesn't make him or you right. Plus it was 4 months ago.
Good show John - Naill has a few peers that can come with close with an honest analysis. I have stopped watching Fareed Zakaria from CNN has over the years (since Obama) become apologists to the failures of the disastrous Obama foreign policy and actively attacking Trump. Will never forget the time when Kissenger warned Fareed about how powerful Trump would be
For us to have a rational discussion the people in power need to take on board the issues we are facing. A large part of the growing hysteria is more and more people are seeing the problems of climate change and yet our political / business leaders keep fudging on taking any meaningful action. Various IPCC meetings whereby handpicked scientists have their findings watered down so the politicians and business leaders can carry on business as usual. Unless meaningful action starts to take place by those in power the hysteria will only increase. The counter to this of course is that the elite know full well that were screwed and are trying to keep a lid on it as long as possible to prevent hysteria. a good example is xr calling for a climate emergency ,London signs up but still carries on with the Heathrow extension!. If I were a member of xr I would find that pretty condescending and piss me off even more. Rational doesn't work in this type of environment.
Amazing dude. I've seen interviews with Niall before but this is by far the most insightful against such a broad range of issues. He was 100% on his game.
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Imagine if Niall had he's own radio show/podcast, I'd subscribe in an instant!
What's the music at the beginning? Thanks in advance chaps!
Mind Field- Remember the Future
Wonderful conversation. Oh for more of this!
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@0:11 Anyone know what camera that is on the left of frame?
19:43 oops
*AMERICA:* Can we please SELECT *Niall Ferguson + Jordan Peterson + Douglas Murray* as: President, Vice President + Speaker of the House of Representatives ???
P.S: *Niall Ferguson* for President
He was the singer from Yes? Why is he doing a chat show?
Michael His voice suddenly dropped and he had to find a new way of earning a living.
I have great respect for Niall, I have read the majority of his books and watched the majority of his documentaries. That said, I think his climate change analysis at the end of this talk left quite a bit to be desired. While some climate activists are admittedly annoying, we all know that Governments, oil companies and certain politicians used any ambiguity they could find surrounding climate change in order to maintain the status quo. This problem should have been addressed in a realistic way decades and generations ago. Climate change should not be seen through a left-right lens, the only discussion should be between effective vs. counter productive strategies. While Niall paid lip service to the issue of climate change, I think it would have been more productive for everyone if he had put his mind toward a discussion about effective strategies for dealing with the crisis.
Niall used to say that manmade climate change wasn’t real. I wonder what made him change.
The only part I don't like about this conversation is that Niall Ferguson's stats on CO2 emissions are dead wrong.
I was with this lad until he started talking about Climate Change.. Not another one! 😩
Continuing the thought of china devaluing their currency: the next effect is offshore investment by rich chinese seeking to get their money out. This benefits the plaves receiving the money in the short term. However, it also makes the chinese into individual global citizens with broader perspectives. This may actually do what the original plans sought to accomplish--move the chinese toward capitalism.
just a couple of things around brexit:
* the majority of the political nastiness is coming from the remain side
* many who voted leave were accepting there will be an economic cost, nut that this was worth paying to regain sovreignty over borders and economic policies. Leave voters didn't want to be part of a system where the elected MEPs had no power to bring legislation into the European Parliament, and were just vassals giving a rubber stamp to legislation brought to them from the bureaucracy in Brussels.
Those that are edgumicated won't believe that!
I doubt there is one European country positively impressed with Trump and I doubt the Germans are any different one way or another and as for business, all countries are equally keen on exporting to China and that includes the UK, also if Britain had an auto industry they would be as keen as the Germans are.
Another person who thinks he understands climate change but doesn't know the first thing about the science. More superstition
"socialism in one country" (communism) vs [insert nationality here] in one country (national socialism). They both want to eat eachother.
"counter action" clarity which must continue to evolve .. take the air out of the hydraulics quicker to solution.)
.. perhaps gradually to preclude shocks
As long as Joe Biden isn't the Nominee. Whoops.
Yeah except for the critisism of China and India regarding emissions. China supplies the world, particularly with useless, nasty plastic gizmos. We buy it without a second thought. It's a more complex problem than simply blaming China.
While true that much is being manufactured in China, standards would still be higher in Western (including Japan, Taiwan and Korea) countries when it comes to manufacturing regulations.
Plus there's higher emissions simply by a developing nation transitioning to a developed one. All those cars driven by the growing middle class aren't all Teslas.
@@cosmodeus1720 That's a separate argument.
love to watch Niall get slightly pissed as he predicts the future, which is seemingly becoming more and more true...
So Johnson is a deplorable just like his wife's bodyguard the Jerry's of the world indeed. Long live the politburo of the European Council!
I have a great deal of respect for Niall Ferguson, but his take on Brexit is entirely coloured by the fact that he was an advisor to David Cameron, and an ardent Remainer, and his explanantion is therefore asinine. Boris Johnson didn't cause Brexit and he didn't rally 17.4 million people to vote for it. That was something else entirely, i.e. the greatest political rebellion by the British (particularly English) people in modern times, followed by a counter coup by the political, legal and media establishment. That was why people were so angry with politicians. They were asked a question, they gave a clear answer and the establishment then spent the next three years telling them they were wrong, stupid, bigoted and didn't know what they were doing.
Oh dear me. You're one of those right wing cranks aren't you. In referendums, all kinds of people vote for all kinds of reasons. There were a plethora of them for Brexit, in what was a very tight vote. But, hey. Keep in with your romantic day dreaming.
On the topic of brexit, always keep in mind that Ferguson is a personal friend of Cameron. Ferguson also has an internationalist bent to his politics that makes him somewhat tone-deaf to the nationalist sentiment even if he recognizes the inherent flaws of the EU's "federation" experiment.
what the f does he know about climate?
*I'm sorry.Your prediction of US relationship with China will fall flat. My generation who will one day run things despises Trumpism". I have doubts about President AOC being* a "hawk"
Oh, brother. I forgot Ferguson was a Globalist.
N. Ferguson may rattle as he will, it makes no difference.
Suppose I am building an aeroplane. While I’m doing it, N. Ferguson is rattling that it won’t fly. I ignore him. I just keep on building my aeroplane, and it flies. The rattler keeps on rattling. So what?
N. Ferguson may rattle as he will - don’t feed the troll. Paul Krugman said that too. N. Ferguson can’t stand that.
People need to wake up if you believe in scripture then it is written how what has happened and what is happened now and how it all turns out is their in scripture it doesn’t matter how we talk but the future is in black and white : if you really want to no the answer then start studying the bible and you will no for your self .
Right on, Poppet.
(56:00) The wild fires in california arent occurring because of climate change, they occur because the non native pine trees were brought to california in the 1850's. The fires in the area have been occurring since then. I have to guess that blaming things that have nothing to do with climate change on climate change is an effort to gain "bipartisan" appeal. It won't. Doing things like that just makes you seem like a hack.
maybe this guy and get biden out of the basement
Correction... the President literally has full power over foreign policy
Oh Jesus Christ god help us
Give nukes to Taiwan
Has not aged well
First!
Fix the colour... I'm getting blinded here.