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Speaker 0 says that the richest people in the world have recently started telling people they need to produce more energy, which they find “a little weird” because the same group has spent at least the past fifteen years—since Al Gore became famous—telling people the opposite. Speaker 0 claims they said energy is not the source of life or the base of civilization, but instead the cause of humanity’s downfall: the destruction of the earth and the main reason for climate change. Speaker 0 further states that CO2 is the reason it is getting warmer and that this warming happens because climate cycles are part of nature, including the example that glaciers existed and now do not.
Speaker 0 says this group previously taught that burning fossil fuels was not only bad for the environment but a sin, and that society should be organized around being “carbon conscious” because they “love the earth.”
Speaker 0 then claims that the same people, including Larry Fink of BlackRock, have since said they are going to take a pause on concern about global warming and that society needs more electricity. Speaker 0 states that most electricity on Earth is produced by boiling water to move turbines, and that a small portion uses radioactive material in nuclear reactors, while most generation is from coal, then natural gas, and some oil. Speaker 0 characterizes this as essentially industrial-age technology: refining and cleaning, but fundamentally the same process of burning fuel to boil water and generate power.
Speaker 0 says these figures who previously framed that technology as inefficient and morally wrong are now calling for a massive expansion of it. Speaker 0 links this shift to AI, describing artificial intelligence as a dramatic, quantum increase in processing power that enables computers to reason and mimic human thinking, replacing a lot of human labor. Speaker 0 states that AI is incredibly demanding of power and will require far more electricity than most people understood. Speaker 0 concludes that society will need to put on hold—and invert—its concerns about global warming in order to build AI.