It was challenging to figure out where to put this. It’s also environment, and it turns sharply political for Act III.
If you’re already familiar with renewables, there’s not a lot to learn here but the comparisons with fossil fuels and ethanol. Given that I’ve been on solar since 2023, I appreciated what he was saying to the uninitiated.
Get yourself some Act II if you plan on making it all the way through … it’s an hour and a half.
It’s a 90 minute video. If you can’t read 420 words (nice) in summary of a 90 minute video, the problem isn’t the length of the summary.
That said, the summary does have other problems. Notably: it stops at the fake-out ending at 1:02:41, missing a full third of the video, wherein he starts getting more explicitly political and takes a strong anti-Republican, anti-ICE, anti-mainstream media conformity with the above stance, and explicitly endorses getting involved in politics including voting for Democrats not because they’re good, but because a literal wet towel would be a good option compared to the alternative.
He details Jimmy Carter putting water heating solar panels on the White House, and Reagan taking them down. Compares it to Biden passing the Inflation Reduction Act, which included renewable energy funding, and Trump illegally using an executive order to ignore that. He talks about the erosion of the 1st, 2nd, and 4th amendment rights in America. He quotes an essay critiquing King George prior to America’s independence, and points out the exact same words apply perfectly to Trump, before endorsing getting involved in Democratic primaries and voting Democrat in the mid-terms, and complains about lies like “non-citizens are voting” and “other countries will pay for our tariffs”.
He praises protesters in Minnesota, and endorses getting involved in on-the-ground organising and caring about other people.
“An essay” is an interesting choice of reference to the Declaration of Independence. I mean, I guess it was an essay by committee, but that undersells the source.
Oh that’s what it was? Neat! I didn’t know. (In case my instance doesn’t give it away, I’m not American.)
Yeah, we were a bit peeved at the time.
Ya. It was literally the letter that the colonies sent the king telling him to fok off