Noam Chomsky - The Most Dangerous Organization in Human History

[@herb369nichols]

For years I've had little faith that the current population of humans on this planet will last much longer. The people in power value wealth even over the lives of their grandchildren.

[@cliffgaither]

@Robert C. Christian :: Do you honestly believe that The Gods of The Cosmos will let us fuck-up other Constellations on an Intergalactic Scale ?!

[@cliffgaither]

@Robert C. Christian :: Most people, myself included, think that if there is intelligent life out there, they are way ahead of us & could possibly have been watching us for a long time & been very disappointed. When we move out-ward, no matter how far away they may be, they may see us getting closer & closer to their domain like a dangerous virus AND will finally have to bring out their superior weapons technology !

[@lopoa126]

@@cliffgaither or we could be the advanced race. Your type are so funny

[@lopoa126]

@Robert C. Christian the world ended for a lot of socialists, Jewish people, and more when Nazis killed them all...Keep your head buried child

[@cliffgaither]

@@lopoa126 :: Look around ( yourself ) ; see this World, in all of ITS Wonders & Beauty ; see how disrespectful we have become to ourselves & others & this Planet. You honestly believe or suppose "we could be the advanced race" ? What's funny is you ! To have lived as long as you've lived & still not have a handle on the meaning of the word :: "advanced", maybe it isn't so "funny" as "sad".

[@1020percent]

I’m seeing a lot of comments lamenting at the fact that Chomsky is aging and not likely to be with us much longer. We need to become more like him if we truly believe the statements he has made over the years and continue to spread these ideas. Do not worry if you don’t see yourself as “intelligent enough” to communicate his ideas, share the videos if you’re more comfortable doing that.

[@michaelthomas366]

Chomsky is a hater of America; he probably thinks the same about God.

[@shadow_storm55]

@@michaelthomas366 yeah I’ve starting to become weary of him lately like that

[@gerardowmby7156]

@@michaelthomas366 Yeah, well, "america" ain't perfect, ya know. Maybe it needs some criticism. He is an atheist, though, and that makes anyone look foolish Plus Hitchens, Dawkins, Kaku, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and the whole bunch. One glimpse of that infinite light of God, and your doubts disappear.

[@CD-il5xh]

@@michaelthomas366 You are 100% inaccurate

[@dehsa38]

Once upon a time, it was common knowledge that the aging, and dying had much wisdom to impart.

[@johncorson6599]

The democrats have been so helpful in helping the Republican Party .. carrying on the same policies when republicans lose seats

[@Sentient_Blob]

Democrats get second place in terms of awfulness

[@frannsh5100]

Same coin, different face..

[@Dogen70]

True that

[@herbmaaster]

it's the same thing, rino republicans. to say theyre more organized and dangerous than democrats in this time is insane though. if you value individualism the only platform for you is the republican party but ofc it's the same entrenchment for state backed special interests

[@johncorson6599]

@@Sentient_Blob they all suck .. same corruption and unwarranted and unconstitutional influence controlling both

[@illegalsmirf]

Chomsky led a life worth living. Thanks Noam.

[@richardmarangon9752]

yep, I mostly wasted my life..im 50, perhaps its not too late to do something valuable with what limited time I have left???

[@nobodysfool2232]

You make it sound like he’s passed away

[@Knaeben]

@@richardmarangon9752 Never too late to find something productive to do with your time. Just gotta use your imagination.

[@fredloeper8579]

He's a damn fool.

[@larsfrisk6658]

@@fredloeper8579 If Chomsky is a fool, who exactly do you consider NOT to be?

[@johnflavin6325]

A man on whom the gift of life was not wasted.

[@Shmooper_Dooper]

I love that he tells people to develop their own opinion. Not like most news (or perhaps propaganda) stations that blare WE’RE RIGHT AND WE’RE THE ONLY ONES WHO ARE RIGHT. If someone legitimately says they could be wrong and to have your own opinion it lifts them up in my eyes.

[@kelvinhor9642]

of course you need to develop your own ideas, not all his words is correct some are true some is not right let me tell you

[@emil25558]

@@kelvinhor9642 which arent true in this video LOL

[@davidn4956]

There is still objective truth out there. Not all opinions are valid. Too many people hide behind the safety of "opinion" to hold on to falsehoods.

[@winewoman224]

To quote Shakespeare in Julius Caesar- “To control the masses give them bread and circuses”- Welcome to Trumps America.

[@seanmoran6510]

Frank kenny Democrats

[@upulor744]

Frank kenny Who tries to gut social programs to fund the never ending American war machine?

[@petersinclair3997]

Frank kenny Eisenhower warned against being too focused on military power, when he left office. Billions are spent on sports arena but one still has to pay for the food.

[@reverendjimjones1043]

It's *Beer and circuses now 🍺

[@bobsmith513]

Lucy Buehl Trump didn't invent these problems. These problems are years in the making. Fixating the blame onto one person keeps everyone busy while the agenda keeps on.

[@cynthianayeh5861]

The signs of the prophets are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls, and echo the Sounds of Silence. Simon and Garfunkel

[@larryslemp9698]

Wow..........

[@scoobydoo936]

I know of Noam Chomsky for 18 years now, heard from him the first time when I was a student of social science back in the days. Every now and then when I needed a compass in my life and I was on a crossing, was caught up in dangerous waters and about to drift away i turned to him and his wisdom and found myself again. This is the value of elders like him, they ground you and help you reassess the situation and the world around you in a way you that you feel sane again with their wisdom and minds of reason. I have the utmost respect for him, so sad to think that he might leave us soon.

[@ObjectiveAnalysis]

Well said

[@TheQueenRulesAll]

Yes, well said. He has always helped me have a greater and broader understanding.

[@eustahijebrzic1866]

Mr. Noam Comski is currently the smartest man and philosopher in the world, the saddest thing about all this is that no one in the US state is listening.

[@zachbartell8498]

Chomsky’s intelligence as a person is immaterial. It’s his accuracy and intellectual rigor that make his work important.

[@donnaross5105]

He means nobody with much POWER is listening!

[@donnaross5105]

Nobody with lasting POWER is listening...e.g. people like Pelosi, McConnell, etc.@Kathy Gilligan

[@leon19736]

The most smartest man who glorified Venesuella and Chavez. Indeed smartest man in the world.

[@kundaflow]

I'm listening .. have been for years... Americana

[@blinktwiceforyes4820]

The Dems seem to go along for the ride too - as long as the establishment right keep the tax cuts coming

[@sheepshead17]

none of that is true

[@JynxeeKat]

Fast fwd 3yrs later and we clearly can see you had wise words.

[@stevewilliams6354]

What he’s saying here is the hard truth about our Republican Party

[@stevewalker9743]

Thanks Dr Chomsky, It appears there can be no retirement for. You're needed too much. I wish I had the same skills at articulation. Steve Walker

[@deepattison9329]

You don't need any special skills, you just need to open your mouth when you see something that is wrong.

[@auggiegiuseppe1408]

Right on Steve, I definetely agree.

[@ketilflatnose4930]

Btw they moved the clock to 2 minutes to midnight recently, same as it was in 1953.

[@EBUNNY2012]

Trump started zero wars.

[@3lancerofficialmaybe871]

@@EBUNNY2012 He continued all the wars, increased drone strikes by 400% and helped facilitate a genocide in Yemen with Saudi Arabia.

[@creekwalker62]

Imagine if we "all" said we were going to boycott WalMart for just one month. Imagine if we did not buy fuel for our cars for just one week. Imagine if no one bought a gallon of milk for two weeks. Imagine if anyone with an infant did not buy disposable diapers for just one week. Diapers are frigging expensive! Imagine if no one bought a Coca Cola or Pepsi for a week, the price of sugar would plummet. Imagine if no one bought a new car or truck for one month. We have the control in our hands. These and many more things would show the big corporate fat cats and Wall Street who's in charge.

[@larryslemp9698]

Possibly.

[@healthyone100]

IF ALL THE TRUCKS STOP ROLLING THEN WE COULD TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY IN A WEEK!

[@milkcollins4764]

Also, its possible our economy would collapse. We dont eat if we dont work. The system, when it collapses, or changes, will bring alot of depression and starvery.

[@orsuhk1234]

BUT HOW DO WE ORGANIZE?????????

[@diriyaduale6143]

Are you kidding yourself. When we become intelligent beings again, then we shall be able to what you are suggesting. We are shells of a human being and pretty damaged. Look around you carefully.

[@vanguardau]

I keep saying it but I can't imagine a world without Noam Chomsky-love your intellect and views Noam.

[@donnaross5105]

Me, too.

[@conorcolon]

vanguardau I remember his prescient evaluation of the then ongoing hostilities in Vietnam. Having just returned from two years in a third world country, his assessment, from my experience, was 100 percent on target. I’ve followed his opinions since and have never known him to hit anything other than a bullseye.

[@rogerdodger8415]

He's a criminal.. For all his in-principle disdain of communism, however, when it came to the real world of international politics Chomsky turned out to endorse a fairly orthodox band of socialist revolutionaries. They included the architects of communism in Cuba, Fidel Castro and Che Guevera, as well as Mao Tse-tung and the founders of the Chinese communist state. Chomsky told a forum in New York in December, 1967 that in China “one finds many things that are really quite admirable.” He believed the Chinese had gone some way to empowering the masses along lines endorsed by his own libertarian socialist principles: China is an important example of a new society in which very interesting and positive things happened at the local level, in which a good deal of the collectivization and communization was really based on mass participation and took place after a level of understanding had been reached in the peasantry that led to this next step. When he provided this endorsement of what he called Mao Tse-tung’s “relatively livable” and “just society,” Chomsky was probably unaware he was speaking only five years after the end of the great Chinese famine of 1958-1962, the worst in human history. He did not know, because the full story did not come out for another two decades, that the very collectivization he endorsed was the principal cause of this famine, one of the greatest human catastrophes ever, with a total death toll of thirty million people. Nonetheless, if he was as genuinely aloof from totalitarianism as his political principles proclaimed, the track record of communism in the USSR-which was by then widely known to have faked its statistics of agricultural and industrial output in the 1930s when its own population was also suffering crop failures and famine-should have left this anarchist a little more skeptical about the claims of the Russians’ counterparts in China. In fact, Chomsky was well aware of the degree of violence that communist regimes had routinely directed at the people of their own countries. At the 1967 New York forum he acknowledged both “the mass slaughter of landlords in China” and “the slaughter of landlords in North Vietnam” that had taken place once the communists came to power. His main objective, however, was to provide a rationalization for this violence, especially that of the National Liberation Front then trying to take control of South Vietnam. Chomsky revealed he was no pacifist.

[@superdankgod2266]

@@rogerdodger8415 no evidence for anything you said.

[@rogerdodger8415]

@@superdankgod2266 Easily verified on line. But, I know you leftists and your game. First it's not true, then when you're presented with the evidence, you attack the source. I don't play leftist games. I just expose them.

[@dadgadify]

I wish our world powers were constructed in a way where a man like this could be a world leader.

[@rocioaguilera3555]

Good, but impossible. The masters of the world have just one goal: enslave our minds so they can become richer and richer

[@brandonjackson5142]

Unfortunately if that were the case it wouldn't be him or anyone like him. It would be someone who greatly desires power, and those individuals generally aren't great people.

[@DaleGribble1]

Chomsky is tied in with Epstein money and travel now

[@rodneyelever974]

Racing against disaster? Noam Chomsky reveals something that I have believed for a long time. Mankind is just a temporary existence that can disappear very fast into nothing.

[@Gary-sx5ox]

I am 70 yrs old. Noam is famous for stating extreme opinions in order to make his points. His war crime interview that stated the crimes of every president since Eisenhower never indicated this was a Republican or Democrat issue. The crimes of all the presidents was a corruption issue. I’ve listened to Noam for decades. You have to take what he says with an approach that ‘framing’ is his approach. The way he states issues will always sound like he’s right.

[@Deurization]

appreciate your perspective.

[@ddawnvit]

I wonder if Naom Chomsky is an opium addict like Marx whose mind of anti-Christ and anti-establishment culture had conceived the political system of reaction that could make humankind to become like a common animal. Opium addicts have very fertile imagination. Remember, most famous writers of the 19th Century were opium addicts.

[@rogerdodger8415]

For all his in-principle disdain of communism, however, when it came to the real world of international politics Chomsky turned out to endorse a fairly orthodox band of socialist revolutionaries. They included the architects of communism in Cuba, Fidel Castro and Che Guevera, as well as Mao Tse-tung and the founders of the Chinese communist state. Chomsky told a forum in New York in December, 1967 that in China “one finds many things that are really quite admirable.” He believed the Chinese had gone some way to empowering the masses along lines endorsed by his own libertarian socialist principles: China is an important example of a new society in which very interesting and positive things happened at the local level, in which a good deal of the collectivization and communization was really based on mass participation and took place after a level of understanding had been reached in the peasantry that led to this next step. When he provided this endorsement of what he called Mao Tse-tung’s “relatively livable” and “just society,” Chomsky was probably unaware he was speaking only five years after the end of the great Chinese famine of 1958-1962, the worst in human history. He did not know, because the full story did not come out for another two decades, that the very collectivization he endorsed was the principal cause of this famine, one of the greatest human catastrophes ever, with a total death toll of thirty million people. Nonetheless, if he was as genuinely aloof from totalitarianism as his political principles proclaimed, the track record of communism in the USSR-which was by then widely known to have faked its statistics of agricultural and industrial output in the 1930s when its own population was also suffering crop failures and famine-should have left this anarchist a little more skeptical about the claims of the Russians’ counterparts in China. In fact, Chomsky was well aware of the degree of violence that communist regimes had routinely directed at the people of their own countries. At the 1967 New York forum he acknowledged both “the mass slaughter of landlords in China” and “the slaughter of landlords in North Vietnam” that had taken place once the communists came to power. His main objective, however, was to provide a rationalization for this violence, especially that of the National Liberation Front then trying to take control of South Vietnam. Chomsky revealed he was no pacifist.

[@Sydopath]

You present a very one-sided pro-capitalist attempt at discrediting this man, yet you leave the door open for ridicule of the great american dream. You mention North Vietnam, yet ignore the Mai Lai Massacre, and the drugs abuses of USA military. You omit the carpet bombing of civilians in Afghanistan, in pursuit of a fictitious bogey man. You skip past the 9/11 government pantomime of evil, in your desperate bid to discredit all but anerica. Think again oh wise one.

[@rogerdodger8415]

@@Sydopath If you aren't happy with the Capitalist system, then move to Cuba!! Plenty of Salsa for you there!! How about N. Korea? They can get you a job working in the fields. Now pay close attention........Communism has killed a HUNDRED TIMES the number of humans than Capitalism. Got that? Not twice..a HUNDRED TIMES.. Stalin, Pol Pot, and others. Look it up. MILLIONS!! There's no ridicule anywhere, except the poor education exhibited by disgruntled, unhappy losers, that can't succeed ANYWHERE ON EARTH, if they can't succeed HERE in the USA. Now, go tell the Afghans that the Taliban are "fictitious" The fastest way a terrorist becomes an innocent civilian, is to shoot him dead!! He becomes innocent before he hits the ground!

[@rogerdodger8415]

@eman Amen!

[@maxkinge3142]

STOP BUYING/USING PLASTIC!!!!!!!!!! STOP!

[@4mazIngxXGamEr]

Max Kinge stop eatting meat

[@talastra]

stop using energy to post online

[@talastra]

also, there's plastic in your computer (or the phone) you posted with.

[@kbtube8125]

max -- NEVER! I'M EATING A COW RIGHT now too.

[@slimindahoodsunshine8818]

REFUSE TO WORK FOR THE RICH!!!!!!!

[@marciabarlow4704]

At what point do you decide a person is NOT rich, slim? And, do the NOT rich provide employment?

[@healthyone100]

the rich own everything!

[@dedg0st]

take over the industries and make them into coops. liberate the lands from the oligarchs. and force the bosses and politicians out.

[@alhassani626]

Look, put it in a positive style. Work for small organizations and keep money in community banks. Rise up small, but stay united in a human brotherhood. Don't steal other people's wives or daughters. Respect the patriarchal system and reject extreme liberals. Thus stop chaos in either end of the spectrum, things will shape up.

[@tycko4]

@@JohnDavis-im1oy simp, you know.tue government can literally do that without the whole undemocratic capitalist authoritarian power part, right?

[@astroperson]

So, let me get this straight. I've followed Chomsky for years. I might well have all his books. It's not just that all of these points he makes are frightening. It's that we can listen to them all and then walk quietly into the night and ... then what? What are we to do about it? We are as guilty as the GOP if we do not do anything about it. Do we break a law (heaven forbid) and talk about it? Convince Congress to start an impeachment? Rally to nullify the election and do it again, in the hope the US gets a real president next time? Or do we just ignore it and hope to wake up one day because its all a bad dream... I don't even live in the States. In fact, why worry, if indeed we can't do anything about it? Just make it quick.

[@federicorudolph949]

Revolution, maybe.

[@duartepereira9400]

Hope you're happy with the clown you all have now

[@tommygaga7117]

@@duartepereira9400 Yeah, Biden is a clown, but compared to the evil 'It' clown, Trump, who was his predecessor? America is in much safer hands.

[@duartepereira9400]

@@tommygaga7117 like Biden handled the Afgan war , what about the ukraine war or the high inflation our the prices of gas going up , not being able to finish a sentence and the bunny is always there to help him . Sure in a much better place

[@dannette256]

Congrats Paul. You have a real president now.

[@ravenstrange8466]

Noam Chomsky is an overgrown student who never left school. He lives out of text books and has never really experienced the things he defends, or the things he is against. He just talks and that's it. Intellectuals feel they're immune from responsibility. Intellectuals think they should be free from social standards while enforcing social standard on on everyone else. They feel they should be insulted from the responsibility of their view points as more often then naught their theories have failed, and they don't want to be held accountable for being demonstrably wrong.

[@Frozenhand00]

How could you possibly know that intellectuals feel immune from responsibility? Was Einstein irresponsible? How about Leonardo Da Vinci and Isaac Newton?

[@user-2024lunasola]

Are you a puerile neocon?

[@armannstraughter3296]

?

[@dailyretch9273]

I'm more worried about rising sea levels and the concurrent meltdown of nuclear power plants that are frequently built below sea level.

[@panthera50]

Yep, they are going to blow, just like Fukoshima. 😈

[@dr.floridaman4805]

ive been waiting for my property to become waterfront for 50 years now. im still at 5 ft above sea level. damn politicians lying decrease my potential gains from the housing market. you are a scared sheep. obama buy beach house zuckerburg by beach house biden buys an island next to epstien the ones making you fearful do the opposite.

[@johnwest3287]

I'm 58 and visited the same boat launch on the oceans harbors and it has not risen one foot. It's all a hoax put out by the left to set fear and suck your wallets dry. Some day I hope you grow up and see the truth.

[@mirsad96]

Worth adding to the title is that the Democratic party comes in at a close second.

[@sheepshead17]

not even close, bud

[@miguelcasiano9532]

Regardless, a gang is a gang. It's just called government.

[@Dell-ol6hb]

Close no but it’s certainly up there

[@sheepshead17]

@@Dell-ol6hb you’re a dolt

[@GalacticNovaOverlord]

I would put the first institution that is more nefarious as the U.S. government and some other companies

[@cocobunjee6676]

The world should not trade with America until Americans learn to respect our environment.

[@tinynijman9077]

Yes ! I find America a very upsetting place at the moment !

[@thehellyousay]

Lunatics are always dangerous. Armed lunatics are always more dangerous. Organised lunatics are always terrifying. Armed organised lunatics are always more terrifying. Armed organised lunatics in power are a mass extinction event.

[@48tilt]

Glad i grew up in the 70's the best decade to live.

[@californiaplant-basedeater2761]

If there is corruption now, and there is, I can only imagine how much there was then. All decades seem great to us as children, in non-impoverished places, at least.

[@48tilt]

@@californiaplant-basedeater2761 It is big brother now and China. Scary. Don;t think the kids are having much of a life this decade. No jobs and corona with China on the horizon. 70's was the best . 80's had the best music.

[@californiaplant-basedeater2761]

@@48tilt I guess what I meant was, I think those times seemed better in an ignorance is bliss kind of way. There was still hell all over the planet, the USA included.

[@48tilt]

@@californiaplant-basedeater2761 Agree we were kept in the dark by news moguls with vested interests but big brother was not around to the same degree. Will only get worse. Love George Gammon kzbin.info/www/bejne/moTciKJ3mZWaiZo

[@kinngrimm]

Noam Chomsky quoting Stephen Colbert made my day :) He should go on his show!

[@terryalford955]

And confirm he is an ass clown like the talk show host is , world fucking order will be responsible for ww3 , food shortages , fuel shortages , total power or kill the planets population thru war and famine , if you pry my gun from my dead hand , be careful the barrel will be hot . Shit yea a cleansing of the deplorables from the planet and problem solved. No more people to fuck up the air with Petro fumes, as long as the ruling class would then have the planet to themselves, dipshit liberal thinking, my solution is air burst the cities , kill off the city rats, and east and west coast packed city Liberial scum and let the strong survive, all the men with viginas and dare I say women with dick envy will be a crazy thing from the past like disco. Survival brings every thing back to the basics , aahhh no more disposable wealth for the elite to murder and kill for . The power to those few men left that can hold it , the world will right its self thru purge cleansing, PARA BELLUM, sort of lemming like wouldn't you say?

[@hockeymike333]

I can't believe he named only one of the parties, when he clearly names every single president from both parties having taken place in countless war crimes based on the nurmburg

[@jamalnasir5648]

only one party says climate change is a hoax. It definitely isn't the dems

[@hockeymike333]

@@jamalnasir5648 Because the term is a hoax for fear mongering. The climate is always changing, always has, and will until this planet becomes a dead planet, but it's easy to control weak fragile sheep minds with word play and fear, esp those who are so desperate to reach for anything that could put them on a self glorifyingvilified

[@michaelrivera6989]

You must be an independent.

[@hockeymike333]

@@michaelrivera6989 you must be a no thought judgemental prick

[@Jeff-z3l3q]

*Nuremburg

[@willy1957]

The musicians on the Titanic did play on, this sums it all up.

[@tracylrsw247]

Well I just heard that Kasich is in favor of continuing to use coal in Ohio. I rescind my endorsement of this man. he still seems to have the most common sense among that crew. Pray for me because I live in Florida and we have a HUGE THIEF FOR GOVERNOR. The dumbasses in my state elected him TWICE! I am losing hope!

[@terryalford955]

Move to ohio

[@azizaibrahim1155]

Tracy, I firmly believe that Desantis will fall in a scandal !!

[@Joseph1NJ]

Gotta love the republicans, 19th century solutions to our 21st century problems.

[@rogerdodger8415]

From roughly the 1960s to the mid-2000s, the American environmentalist movement aggressively espoused a concept known as “peak oil” as its primary justification for reducing fossil fuel use. According to peak-oil theory, the finite nature of the world’s petroleum reserves necessarily implies that a maximum aggregate rate of oil extraction for the world will be reached at some future point. After that point, oil production will enter into a decline. In the abstract, peak-oil theory simply makes a series of mathematical claims about the long-term course of a finite or nonrenewable resource’s uses. In the hands of environmentalist activists, it became an instant cause for alarm. Oil’s nonrenewable nature meant that a resource-depletion event was imminent and that the failure to aggressively adopt “clean” fuel alternatives would lead to a catastrophic collapse of the global energy sector and thus the global economy. These apocalyptic claims were commonplace at the time of the first Earth Day event in 1970, when environmentalists confidently predicted a complete exhaustion of the world’s oil supply by the year 2000. In subsequent years the environmentalist movement en masse adopted the logic of the famously failed Malthusian doomsayer Paul Ehrlich to suggest an imminent death spiral in the oil-based-energy market, setting a deadline for the global conversion away from fossil fuels. Humans must reduce fossil fuel consumption, they said, or else face a resource-depletion catastrophe. To avert the crisis, they conveniently pointed to the heavy hand of government. We must adopt a familiar package of subsidies for wind and solar energy, enact gasoline taxes to decrease consumption, and use heavy regulatory interventions to restrict fuel use in cars and energy use in household appliances. Do these things, and only these things, and an oil-depletion catastrophe will be averted. Except it never played out as predicted. There was no energy collapse in 2000, and there’s no sign of one coming in the foreseeable future. Instead, a combination of new oil-source discoveries, better oil-extraction technologies such as hydraulic fracking, and technological improvements in fuel efficiency have kept the energy sector remarkably stable - so stable, in fact, that the once-“obvious” case for emergency government action to avoid an imminent oil depletion is no longer seriously discussed. The environmentalists did not change their desired policies though. They simply modified their rationale for the same thing to almost exactly the opposite justification. Instead of “peak oil” and an imminent resource depletion, the new buzzword of the moment is “carbon sequestration.” This new idea holds that if existing fossil fuel sources, as well as those that have yet to be discovered, are actually extracted and expended, it will release massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, causing global warming to accelerate at a catastrophic pace. Therefore, to avert catastrophe, we must intentionally sequester fossil fuels by keeping them in the ground and out of human use. Note that the desired government interventions did not meaningfully change. The same environmental activists still want aggressive subsidies for solar and wind energy. They still want to decrease oil consumption through punitive taxes - now called a “carbon tax.” They still want regulatory interventions to force reduced reliance on fossil fuels. And they still insist these policies must be adopted immediately and without question, or else the new catastrophe of the moment will become reality.

[@rogerdodger8415]

@William Magee Of course! They have their "crisis leads to change" puppets everywhere. There's a LONG history of these baseless accusations of global catastrophe being made that run back over fifty years. They USE to claim that we were in for a new ICE AGE. Here's the question we WANT answered.. If climate change is so urgent, why are the Chinese with their MASSIVE coal use AND EXPORTS ignoring it? Don't they live on the same planet?

[@rogerdodger8415]

@William Magee Well there you are Farkface.. And it's YOU paying the bill!! L.. M... A... O...

[@michaelthomas366]

It began with the assassination of JFK. That's when the decline of the US started.

[@HolderPOt]

I bet you're eating your words now with what's happening in the Middle East...

[@matthewrhule870]

Noam is a true treasure. His knowledge is beyond most people's comprehensive ability. He understands the human condition and the true ugliness we are capable of. If there's a time for cloning, the time is now. The arrogance and ignorance we call Assmericas political leaders could learn from Noam. Thank you Mr.Chomsky for the truest words I've heard in sometime.

[@chinojarjos]

if economy as we know it falls the U.S. falls with it. There is a lot at stake I live in Dallas if the banking system and the oil economy gets taken off the metroplex area will be completely desolate and desperate. The thing is that we are not even trying to progresevely change and diversify our economy by acknowledging and takling these points.

[@judithsochor9755]

chinojarjos

[@panthera50]

A country which does not change, goes under. The rest of the world is going forward, but NOT the USA. 😈

[@Patchuchan]

Rising sea levels and increasingly violent storms from global warming will destroy the economy if it's not stopped.

[@Phil-ui4tm]

Texas did diversify their economy in the 80’s after the oil bust. But the fracking emergence in west Texas has brought it back.

[@ineshvaladolenc6559]

This aged well.

[@mansoor7571]

Naomi Chomsky should be the world justice president .. if he has power what a world would it be if he truely showed to the rest of the world that we all can live and enjoy living being on the side of each other instead of against each other

[@ForzaJersey]

Yeah, this guy is about as overrated an intellectual and as ideologically blinded as Jordan Peterson. Democrats aren't much better than Republicans on environmental policy despite differences in rhetoric and ideology. Most of our reduction in carbon emissions since the mid-2000s were due to the fracking revolution that made natural gas a more economical fuel for power plants than coal. The rest of the emissions reductions were due lower regulatory costs in red states that allowed most new renewable energy capacity (mostly wind power) to be built in Red states. Most blue state new renewable capacity was built in California. Republicans not only reduced emissions better than Democrats thus far, they also paved the way for the EV revolution by decarbonizing our grid enough to make EVs the cleanest automotive option in almost every part of the US. Republicans really just need to get more vocal on solving environmental problems because their passive environmental policies seem to piggieback well on their economic policies. Republicans that take climate policy seriously are already well ahead of Democrats on advanced nuclear power, advanced geothermal power, and advanced green drop-in fuels. When Republicans get active on environmental issues that make radical changes. Teddy Roosevelt led the way on conservation, Nixon established the EPA and laid the foundation of modern environmental policy, Reagan, Bush 41, and Thatcher saved the ozone layer by making the Montreal Protocol pass and become reality. Bush 42 also solved the problem of acid rain and dramatically reduced smog emissions. Democrats often get lost in the environmental myopia of listening to the loudest environmental activists. As a result they often move smaller, fashionable projects along, fail to move the needle much on the big stuff, and tend to commit to policy overreach over pragmatism. In a way, Obama's focus on climate change distracted him away from snuffing out fracking allowing him passively to improve things far more than his actually priorities like climate justice, the Paris Accords, and the enhancements of the Montreal Protocol to include Flourinated gases. A Republican like Ron DeSantis knows the science about as well as Bush 41. We should expect pleasant surprises from him on environmental policy. Or at least a dramatic improvement over Trump and significantly better than Biden.

[@RJAamir]

I discovered you quite late...I should have found you earlier

[@Scyllax]

The American Corporate Fascist Party is that bad?

[@chungwahcancion7870]

aaaaand there is going to be a great We Didn't Listen in the future

[@frankfly1368]

I guess we will just ignore the fact here which is that over the last 4 years the US reduced its carbon footprint while other countries that we supposedly didn’t sit at the table with such as China, India, and others continue to increase their carbon footprint. The data isn’t hard to find folks.

[@peterschoen7409]

Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

[@davidnevett5880]

Any organization that pays attention to guys like chomsky

[@betskruger7470]

Thankyou for speaking out what many of us have been feeling At last what was hidden is now blurted out for trusting human beings to hear THE TRUTH IS BALM FOR A HURTING, SQUASHED SOUL

[@normansommer1589]

I have been personally attached because I dare say that I thought Noam was a bunch of hot air.I still do.

[@CrazyFunnyCats]

Subbed 👍we made Noam a birthday vid for his 88th bday He emailed us back thanking us too! ✨🐯🐾✨

[@quinejohn]

Dedicated and committed to the destruction of organized human life on Earth!!! Wow! That's because they're not human.

[@ATreacherousFoe]

I met him in 2015 in Rochester NY ... the 1st time he'd seen the Requiem for the American Dream. I declined to shake his hand because I have small children in public school and did not want to be the person responsible for the death of the most important intellectual of the 20th & 21st centuries.

[@Diplorable]

😂😂😂😂🤥

[@Airman1121]

Wow, this is probably the most self righteous statement I have ever seen. Bravo, sir.

[@Airman1121]

He's also the most important intellectual to associate with Jeffrey Epstein. Should have let your kids get revenge.

[@Smokyquartz98]

Coming back to this after GOP backed out of the nuclear contract... He is right.

[@SighrisSargon]

Thanks for sharing this recording of Naom Chomsky.

[@peterjones6507]

"A wrecking machine". A perfect description of the USA.

[@GoldeneyePwner]

My wife keeps asking me my I’m so anxious all the time. Professor Chomsky is much more better at articulating my fears about the state of the world.

[@Joseph1NJ]

EPA, FDA, FCC, dept of education, the oversight of the banking and Wall Street come to mind. Americans have no idea the people selected to head these have been open and forthright about destroying them.

[@iqherrera]

Joseph1NJ 😂

[@iqherrera]

Joseph1NJ 😂😂

[@jbmaxwell6547]

Noam, How can we try to make sense to our trumpite friends who all seem so hell bent on trump

[@kpeff1997]

I can't believe he quoted Colbert. I always wished him or Jon Stewart interviewed him to expose younger audiences to Chomsky

[@glassover6420]

He makes it sound like we're the most polluting place on earth...a bit exaturated to say the least if you travel the world you can see we are not..

[@FrankieNeedles323]

Duane Middleton You can't fix this problem if China and India don't comply. They are the biggest violators. Chomsky conveniently leaves out major facts.

[@glassover6420]

Exactly that's my point.

[@Noises]

"hur dur it's china and india." get the fuck out with your GOP lies. America is the filthiest shithole country on earth. I drink the water from my back yard creek. You fuckers have lethal amounts of lead in your public water supplies. I can eat the fish I catch near my house, you'd get mercury poisoning or worse. You gave the world Monsanto, my country gave the world solar energy. You're fucking delusional if you think you fuckers are clean.

[@angelmatos9143]

The clarity of this interview makes it a must see before every election.

[@petersinclair3997]

Points on the lack of international response to climate change, made by Professor Chomsky, go back further than Paris, to Copenhagen.

[@rationalobserver3675]

6:17 to 6:32. I am really interested in this claim, does anyone have a source? It'd be much appreciated

[@bdoorkutbi608]

All respect for this great man .

[@marthacain1468]

This GOP miscreant game of false thrones must end, badly, yes, but stone cold, belly up, END!

[@NinjaMamut]

Watching this out of pure masochism

[@johnelmore452]

Why do bankers still loan $BILLIONS$ to developers on the coast lines; Particularly FLORIDA ????

[@ViceCoin]

On a global catastrophe will get humanity to wake up.

[@eustahijebrzic1866]

I apologize to all conscious and honest Americans

[@AlanHirschenhoferII]

Thank you....

[@Noises]

_All_ conscious and honest Americans? _Both of the_ conscious and honest Americans more like it.

[@1silvervespa]

Noam Chomsky / George Carlin / Frank Zappa , all have been warning us. Are you listening yet ?

[@beefcakepantiehoes]

All true but don’t forget Bill Hicks!

[@jasonjason1080]

what about the Catholic church?

[@Arfabiscuit]

They also freed the slaves in America

[@josephbragg5445]

This guy is acommunist

[@williamwaugh8670]

Of course he is!

[@traiancoza5214]

Wow noam chomsky is so smart, he uses words to say things

[@StevieObieYT]

Noam Chomsky is spot on there! 🔥

[@terryalford955]

If you are talking about the spot on my undies when I fart a wet one then yea spot on socialist

[@DinamoDeet101]

today is 2019!!! he is CORRECT!!! the most imbeciles in the world are Primitive REPUBLICANS!!!

[@magicdaveable]

Perilously close to the tipping point? The tipping point has long since been passed by perhaps 30 years ago?

[@RaAa-e7r]

6 years ago... We're experiencing continual consequences GLOBALLY as we speak... This was an observed, recorded diagnosis from 6 years ago

[@tomwebster7845]

Goodonyar Noam from Perth WA buddy , LOVE YOUR WORK;-)))

[@twisterwiper]

Chomsky spilling facts ☝🏻

[@BoliceOccifer]

You used a race-specific emoji. That on its own makes you cringe.

[@twisterwiper]

@@BoliceOccifer Haha, no it makes me not woke insane.

[@thl7652]

You know Chomsky’s loosing it when he quotes Stephen Colbert

[@LordMarlle]

Why?

[@JOhiyoM]

Russia in the European energy sector. The Russian Federation supplies a significant volume of fossil fuels and is the largest exporter of oil and natural gas to the European Union. ... The Russian state-owned company Gazprom exports natural gas to Europe. China is the largest producer and consumer of coal in the world and is the largest user of coal-derived electricity. However, since 2014 coal as a percentage of the energy mix has fallen, declining from 64% in 2015 to 62% in 2016 according to the National Bureau of Statistics.[1] Looking to China to save the world from the USA? Please!

[@rogerdodger8415]

From roughly the 1960s to the mid-2000s, the American environmentalist movement aggressively espoused a concept known as “peak oil” as its primary justification for reducing fossil fuel use. According to peak-oil theory, the finite nature of the world’s petroleum reserves necessarily implies that a maximum aggregate rate of oil extraction for the world will be reached at some future point. After that point, oil production will enter into a decline. In the abstract, peak-oil theory simply makes a series of mathematical claims about the long-term course of a finite or nonrenewable resource’s uses. In the hands of environmentalist activists, it became an instant cause for alarm. Oil’s nonrenewable nature meant that a resource-depletion event was imminent and that the failure to aggressively adopt “clean” fuel alternatives would lead to a catastrophic collapse of the global energy sector and thus the global economy. These apocalyptic claims were commonplace at the time of the first Earth Day event in 1970, when environmentalists confidently predicted a complete exhaustion of the world’s oil supply by the year 2000. In subsequent years the environmentalist movement en masse adopted the logic of the famously failed Malthusian doomsayer Paul Ehrlich to suggest an imminent death spiral in the oil-based-energy market, setting a deadline for the global conversion away from fossil fuels. Humans must reduce fossil fuel consumption, they said, or else face a resource-depletion catastrophe. To avert the crisis, they conveniently pointed to the heavy hand of government. We must adopt a familiar package of subsidies for wind and solar energy, enact gasoline taxes to decrease consumption, and use heavy regulatory interventions to restrict fuel use in cars and energy use in household appliances. Do these things, and only these things, and an oil-depletion catastrophe will be averted. Except it never played out as predicted. There was no energy collapse in 2000, and there’s no sign of one coming in the foreseeable future. Instead, a combination of new oil-source discoveries, better oil-extraction technologies such as hydraulic fracking, and technological improvements in fuel efficiency have kept the energy sector remarkably stable - so stable, in fact, that the once-“obvious” case for emergency government action to avoid an imminent oil depletion is no longer seriously discussed. The environmentalists did not change their desired policies though. They simply modified their rationale for the same thing to almost exactly the opposite justification. Instead of “peak oil” and an imminent resource depletion, the new buzzword of the moment is “carbon sequestration.” This new idea holds that if existing fossil fuel sources, as well as those that have yet to be discovered, are actually extracted and expended, it will release massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, causing global warming to accelerate at a catastrophic pace. Therefore, to avert catastrophe, we must intentionally sequester fossil fuels by keeping them in the ground and out of human use. Note that the desired government interventions did not meaningfully change. The same environmental activists still want aggressive subsidies for solar and wind energy. They still want to decrease oil consumption through punitive taxes - now called a “carbon tax.” They still want regulatory interventions to force reduced reliance on fossil fuels. And they still insist these policies must be adopted immediately and without question, or else the new catastrophe of the moment will become reality.

[@stevenickerson829]

Roger didit so many words, so little thought.

[@walterkelly]

Alas, the opposing party was once characterized thusly: "I'm not a member of an organized party -- I'm a Democrat." (Will Rogers)

[@myvoice3840]

Democrats are hysterical and evil people. When you hear their crazy ideas and and see how they hate their opponents, then only one conclusion is that the democrats are part of the KKK

[@walterkelly]

Your comment reminds me of another quote, by a Democrat, of all things, Robert Kennedy: "What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents." But perhaps William Butler Yeats characterized your kind of weirdness best when he said "All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions."

[@myvoice3840]

Walter Kelly. "All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions." It's possible I did not have time to fill out my soul. Every time in USSR when I was working on my Master Degrees and my PHD, I had to pass many times exams on "Theory of Scientific Communism". That studies created my "extreme opinion" to run away from soviet communists as far and as soon as possible. May be you like Noam Chomskys' ideas but I do not want listening this liberal garbage again. It is cheap demagoguery for mentally retarded people.

[@caballosinnombre3981]

Developmentally disabled people in their humility sometimes have a better a capacity for self awareness than non-disabled people. In this context, why would you use such cheap demagoguery, like calling Chomsky a liberal? It's fascinating to consider what you said, especially in light of the quote offered from Bobby Kennedy: "What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents."

[@zingiberae]

I thought we would lose Noam mid Trump era. I have never been so happy to be wrong

[@khunigan]

I've always said that some how some way. If they can't hv full control they'll destroy it for all.

[@calogero100]

The updated version of this is both parties, because they are one in the same.

[@garrycampbell9845]

If you believe his warp ideas bad luck for you as there is no hope you will ever have peace of mind

[@petergadd1358]

The salvation of the planet may come in the form of an ice age. Then we'll all become fossil fuel.

[@stuarthipkins7635]

dump trump

[@november31]

the never ending truth teller, thank you for sharing knowledge you have taught for generations, godbless

[@danielcaskey]

Any man who relies on legalism for a more improved tomorrow is a fool.

[@flowermaze___]

Is this part of a longer interview / speech? Would love to hear the full version

[@justinboyd8383]

It’s not even an outrageous statement, just the facts.

[@crazyhorsetrading8655]

@Noam you a mage. Thank you for your tireless work to inform Humanity. Rise Brothers and Sisters of the rainbow world . The time has come for NON VIOLENT liberation

[@DanLetts97]

I’ve never had a clue what Chomsky is saying, and judging by most of these comments nobody else does either. Can someone explain to me what Chomsky stands for?

[@thestranger6910]

Authority has to justify itself, otherwise it should be dismantled. Don't be a hypocrite, judge yourself by the same standards you judge others. You are responsible for the predictable outcomes of your actions.

[@michasosnowski5918]

I just comment, becouse this was really good video. I wish more people would watch it and learn from him. Sadly not many want to wake up.

[@Atmost11]

2 seconds, the amount of time one must feel discomfort, to inevitably admit one is wrong and get it over with

[@MrBillAok69]

Noam seems to be a guy you could trust to do the right thing.

[@DanLetts97]

Install communism?

[@janetmuenzberger6059]

@@DanLetts97 well what is considered democracy thus far is capitalism in disguise and that system has done such a great job...and how many crimes have been committed in the "name" of democracy...have we ever seen a true democracy across this globe?

[@tinturtle9168]

What a loyal Democrat, Noam Chomsky is! What kind of mental gymnastics did it require for Chomsky to separate the Democratic Party from the Republican Party? Is there an American Imperialist war that the Democrats did not either support or instigate? Chomsky has created this incredible brand of dissident Lefty when in truth, his political behaviour not to be confused with his fine words is quite shameful. He’s voted Democrat from when they were a segregationist party to today. He symbolically withheld his vote in 1964 because of Vietnam but he voted for the president who took America into Vietnam, obviously Chomsky never withheld his vote for civil rights and segregation or for the Palestinians who he likes to opine about, he never withheld his vote for universal healthcare(but it’s only poor Americans dying there and privileged Chomsky has no word for those). In summary Chomsky wrote a lot of books and looked like a rebel but happily fought for the American establishment and against working class Americans. Good old Chomsky never fighting the good fight.

[@jdonthepc9831]

But the democrats recognize the climate catastrophe. The republicans outright reject it and that's what it is more dangerous. The democrats still don't do nearly enough though and still primarily represent corporate interests.

[@Patrick-fm5dk]

You don’t have a clue, and your multi-paragraph response just shows how triggered you are.

[@sophialewis5474]

Completely true. They made a pact with the Devil.

[@benstevinson764]

Noam Chomsky is Absolutely Correct about the Republican Party American 🇺🇸 Democracy 🗽Only Benifits the Rich 🤑 the Richest can buy more Freedoms!!! 💸 Money is GOD!!! 💸🤑

[@juliamclaughlin1793]

This is a load of crap for anyone who cares to think clearly and deeply about these topics.

[@Patrick-fm5dk]

You sound like the oldest brother from Succession, which is to say a clueless moron.