Episode 667 Scott Adams: How to Save the World. Literally. In Only Two Minutes

Date: 2019-09-18 | Duration: 10:04

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My new book LOSERTHINK goes on sale 11/5 Pre-order: https://bit.ly/2NRammu We CAN save the world…THIS is how I propose we do that Technique demonstration for concept clarity

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the button the button hey everybody come on in here this is gonna be a very short periscope on a very important topic I'm going to show you how to save the planet now this is a very serious topic and it will only take you a couple minutes so in two minutes I'm going to show you how to save the planet now this might seem like a big claim but it's not so here's the problem as you know there are a lot of people who are worried about to climate change and it'll get too warm and there are some devices that have been invented that will scrub the co2 out of the air I've tweeted about a number of these and then there's a new one that's even more interesting and this is a device by a company called hypergiant industries it looks like it's a tabletop device it's filled with algae and it sucks air into it and the algae is really good at turning the co2 into something else so the idea is that this

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something else so the idea is that this company's idea is that individuals could afford to just buy one of these devices have it at home turn it on then start sucking the co2 out of the air and if enough people were doing it we could keep the co2 at good levels now I didn't realize when I said that people stormed into my Twitter feed and they said Scott you may have just destroyed the world and I said what they said Scott don't you know co2 is not pollution co2 is literally plant food and I'm sitting it in the comments right and you're right co2 is plant food our plants need co2 so this device could destroy the whole world and not just this one but what about all those other devices that take the co2 out of the air what if we had this and other technology around the world and we start sucking the co2 out of the air pretty soon

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of the air pretty soon plant food right plants die the whole planet is dead and so when I saw people come in and for me they said Scott Scott Scott if you do this you will literally destroy the whole planet I thought I've got to stop this I've got to stop this so I came on to periscope with a solution are you ready for this so this will this is a little bit technical I think you can you can I think you can hang with it I'll try to simplify it as much as possible because I know a lot about electronics and you know I worked with engineers so I'm probably operating at a higher plane of technical understanding here but all I'll try to I'll try to break it down to your level all of these devices no matter which company makes it hyper giant or anybody else they're gonna they're gonna require electricity so at some point there's something like this can you see this this is called a power plug for those of you who are not technical it's a three-prong power plug and for

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three-prong power plug and for demonstration purposes I'll use the other end of it as the outlet now in order for one of these co2 devices to work you need to do this watch carefully the plug goes there's three of these things and they'll go right into the three on on the plug and like this then you push it push it and there and then you've done something that's called creating a circuit they have to be together now electricity will flow through your co2 device and destroy the world so this is the bad part so now you've got electricity it goes to your device takes the co2 out of the air as you know co2 is plant food plants all die
die planet is destroyed and you're dead what can you do and hundreds of people have come to my Twitter feed to say Scott you're dooming the planet if we do this the plants will die and I'm thinking what could I do like what what could we

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what could I do like what what could we do if it happened like how how could you fix it like that what would you possibly do before it goes too far and I thought yeah now this is a little out of the box and I can tell from my Twitter feed that most of you didn't see the solution and it's sort of sort of I know it's in the left field but just bear with me bear with me watch this you see the connection these two things that are connected and when they're connected too much co2 is being taken out of the air we overshot the mark we got we got what we wanted you know took the temperature down a degree but we kept going plants are dying watch this watch this now if you're listening to this I'll describe it I'm taking the plug that I'd earlier that I plugged in and it's in the outlet and it's powering these co2 devices that are destroying the world there watch this pull it just gently you just work it out working out there too for those of you can't see

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there too for those of you can't see this I've actually separated and had the plug from the outlet part now this air gap between does not allow the electricity to flow from the plug anymore into the holes of the outlet there's there's no connection anymore now under this condition and again I don't want to make this too technical but the device that's sucking the co2 out of the air almost always will stop running after the electricity is removed and that's how you save the world now some of you are worried about a thing called a slippery slope then if you start taking co2 out of the air you'll just keep taking it until it's all gone and for those people who are worried about taking too much co2 out of the air until it's all gone and we all die I wonder how you ever take a bath at home do you ever take a bath because I

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home do you ever take a bath because I would be afraid to take a bath because what what do you do once the bathtub is full and then it keeps going and then your house is full of water how can you survive and a house that's full of water it's crazy so the slippery slope would kill you if you try to take a bath wouldn't it what about when you go in the diet I've never gone to the diet how did you how did you avoid dying I mean if you're going to diet you you stop you you reduce the amount of food you're eating and then you keep reducing it until you're not eating anything and then you die how do you how do you people who believe in slippery slopes go on a diet are you afraid that you'll actually die here's my point the slippery slope is not a thing is absolutely imaginary thinking things go until they have a reason to

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things go until they have a reason to stop always every time everything goes until it has a reason to stop there's no such thing as a slippery slope things don't have their own free will it's not like events decide to slip you know everything goes until there's something to stop it do you know it would stop the devices from taking too much co2 out of the air us the scientists would say all right it's pretty good don't want to overshoot the mark we're measuring this every day we just hit the perfect amount hey everybody unplug your co2 devices now if we needed more co2 do you think we couldn't add it to the environment pretty quickly how hard would it be to add co2 if we overshot the mark Oh take it afternoon that's the problem it's too easy to put co2 in the in the atmosphere do not worry about slippery slopes they're not real sometimes all you have

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they're not real sometimes all you have to do is pull the plug all right I had to do this because the number of people coming to my Twitter feed with amazing levels of loser think was just shocking now loser think by the way is not calling the person who's thinking it a loser all right I want to be very clear about when I use the term loser think is the title of my new book that'll be out in November I'm talking about a technique of thinking that's unproductive so it could be very smart people who are doing it so it's not it has nothing to do with your native intelligence or even your well has nothing to do with your intelligence it simply has to do with the fact that you have not been exposed to the fact and now you are that there's no such thing as a slippery slope everything changes until there's a reason not to and in the case of these co2 scrubbers it would be the most visible change in the entire planet everybody would be watching and

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planet everybody would be watching and everybody would we quite easily be able to change direction Oh too much co2 taking it out of the air fixed that's it don't worry Italy it'll be fine all right that's that's all for now I just wanted to keep this simple if you're arguing slippery slopes don't do it in public it's not a good look it doesn't mean anything it's magical thinking it's completely free from any form of rational thought and that's all for today and you're welcome I just saved the world for you