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Related: About this forum"The planet's on ****ing fire!" Bill Nye's climate rant goes viral
Bille Nye deviated from his kid-friendly "Science Guy" persona on Sunday night to help John Oliver talk about the severity of climate change. Nye proved he's not always the mild-mannered nerd millennials grew up with when he joined Oliver during his episode detailing carbon pricing and the Green New Deal.
Oliver first outlined the case for the Green New Deal, the environment and jobs proposal introduced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "To its eternal credit, the Green New Deal has succeeded in getting people talking, but that won't mean anything unless that talk turns into action," Oliver said.
"We're going to need a lot of different policies working tandem, and we have to take action right now," the comedian said, towards the end of the segment. "But you don't have to just take that from me. Instead, I'm happy to say Bill Nye has actually agreed to drive the urgency home at this point by actually doing one of his enjoyable, lighthearted demonstrations."
After the tongue-in-cheek introduction, Nye gave a demonstration that was much less lighthearted and used much stronger language than usual.
"By the end of this century, if temperatures keep rising, the average temperature on earth could go up another 4 to 8 degrees," Nye said. "What I'm saying is, the planet's on f****ing fire." The Science Guy then took a blowtorch to a globe, setting it ablaze.
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Doodley
(9,076 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)due to number of species that will be completely wiped out along with their environments and resources destroyed.
2naSalit
(86,498 posts)I saw that this morning and commented that I hope it would go viral.
It should be tweeted to everyone in the WH every day.