Green ep.


This episode is a liberal agenda in some ways, expect cars.

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I'll give partial credit on the cars, but this episode was ALL in on promoting leftist agenda. I was actually surprised and hopeful for some ideological balance and honesty when "ruin" going green. But as usual, the culprit was capitalism and that desire of businesses to make money... always with sinister methods.

I appreciate that he showed how all the things the greenies do don't accomplish anything, but they were all done under that the pretext that individually they can't do enough, and everything about society and the economy is "destroying the planet." Heck, he even argued that bananas were bad for the environment because at the companies that sell them, there are people who drink coffee and wear jackets with zippers. And those are both bad.

And he completely accepted the premise that climate change is real, man-made, and rapidly destroying the planet. So much so, the show ends urging people to call their congressman to support the Paris Agreement.

I enjoyed the series, but as each episode passes, it gets harder and harder to keep watching...

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I think the point was just that, at the heart it, everything requires using power and fuel. Don't stress out in trying to fix things by "going green". Do what you can but work together to make things cleaner.

The Tesla cars are also about being able to drive themselves. They actually work too.

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And he completely accepted the premise that climate change is real, man-made, and rapidly destroying the planet.
That's not an agenda, that's called reality.


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Yeah, I agree, climate change is reality. To add to this, I'm an Independent so I do agree with a lot of conservative values, but people, look outside, look at weather stations, look at videos of ice caps melting. Don't ignore hard evidence.

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I agree that climate change is real. I disagree on how much of that is CAUSED by human activity versus how much human activity CONTRIBUTES to a condition that would exist even without humans.

The climate is changing (warming) on Mars, too. No humans needed.

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I myself am a left-leaning, animal-loving, tree-hugging, middle-to-left-side-of-the-road, registered Independent. However, I can fully see how Adam's liberal agenda is pushed in MOST of the episodes. The episodes that come to mind with overt liberal agendas are: the prison episode (anti-corporate greed/race inequality in corrections), the Wild West episode (pro-woman/anti-government's treatment of Native Americans), the green episode (pro global-warming/anti-corporate greed) and the internet episode (anti-corporate monopoly). Yet, he also discusses things that might ruffle the feathers of liberals, too. One example is how electric cars aren't always the answer to reducing carbon footprints or how big-game hunting might actually save more endangered animals.

Honestly, I don't disagree with too much of what Adam reveals ("ruins"), but I CAN see where much of it is indeed skewed towards his own viewpoint, which is probably quite leftist. Also, I appreciate that he lists his statistical sources in the top corner of the screen as he makes a statement. But, everyone knows that "data" can be skewed toward the outcome desired by the person crunching the numbers. Hard facts, however, are rarely disputable, such as the specific date that the first American woman was appointed governor in Wyoming.

I take the show with a grain of salt, and I would suggest that everyone do that. Some of the silly skits they have certainly fit my sense of humor and I find myself laughing out loud.

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I didn't follow Adam when he blamed soda companies for litter. The consumers were responsible too return glass bottles back then like we are responsible to dispose of plastic bottles now. He does make me look at things differently though. It is in the soda companies interest to encourage consumers to not litter with their logo on it. That's why they would have started their own anti-litter campaigns.

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That's the point. Instead of people bringing back the bottles so the company can clean them and refill them and just circulating x number of bottles now all the bottles get thrown away filling up landfills and the company is making more money by creating a lot more trash

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The bottles thing really does not make any sense. It creates more trash but that can be recycled.

Reusing bottles just would not work. If it ever did (wasn't it just milk?) There's far too many kinds of beverages for that to happen. Not to mention it's kinda gross...I mean that'd be a gargantuan amount of bottles to have to clean over and over.

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The bottle thing worked for many years. When I was a kid, I used to collect bottles and get 5 cents a piece for them at the store. Yep, dozens of brands. That's how it worked. Glass is safe and clean. The bottles were sold with a deposit of five cents added on. The bottle was brought back to the store and you got a nickel. I'd ride my bike around the neighborhood and pick up 15-20 bottles and I'd have enough to buy a soda of my own.

Every store had a big wire bin where the bottles went. The delivery driver would pick up the empties when he dropped off the full bottles. The empties rode back to the plant on his truck, and upon arrival the bottles were cleaned and sterilized. They were cleaned with soap and heated to a temperature at which no bacteria could live.

And we had a LOT less trash laying around everywhere back then. And it just became cheaper and more convenient for the soda companies to make their containers disposable. If you want to change things for the better, just do all aluminum containers and no more plastic.

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I know how the process works and I think some places might still do it now that I think of it.

I'm talking about a country wide scale though. It would be far too much trouble to do that with every kinda drink that's produced.

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And I'm saying it wouldn't. At all. Because it has been done before. It just costs a little more money, but the manufacturers want that money for themselves, not to spend on helping the environment.

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Exactly to what scale has it been done? I seriously want to know.

Take every single drink on the market. I mean literally every single drink available in the US. Every single brand of soda, alcohol, juice, punch, milk etc. Thier variations and off-brands. Not to mention each usually comes in packs (not single servings).

I'm not arguing if it works. I'm saying the amount of trouble would not be worth it. Even so all disposable containers are recyclable so it doesn't matter either way.

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I can't quantify the scale. Where I lived, virtually all drink bottles had a 5 cent deposit and all stores, even convenience stores, had large wire bins where those bottles were collected by the people who were returning them for nickel per bottle.

The scale was massive. Again, I was a kid/teen when this was going on so I can't quote numbers. But it was a simple fact of the consumption process: you paid 5 cents per bottle at checkout, and when you went shopping you brought the bottles back and you were credited 5 cents per bottle when you shopped. It wasn't as difficult or involved or unmanageable as our disposable society wants to believe it was/would be.

Disposable is cheaper and easier, regardless of which method is "better".

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Some counter science to how much of global warming is man made
https://youtu.be/Oh6zDbWMuP0
https://youtu.be/g5LpwL4NKbw

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