Brett Cooper — Can b00bs Save The Planet? | Episode 15

so just a couple of weeks ago I was you know scrolling on X as I do thinking about the world and realized you know I haven't seen many protests lately they've kind of calmed down there hasn't been much Ridiculousness like there wasn't a huge protest after the inauguration I was in DC I feel like I would have noticed or heard you know the protests about Elon Musk have been embarrassingly small that have just been fodder for mockery on social media like it's actually been a bit peaceful maybe we would even say it's been a bit boring and of course because this is the way the world works the moment I thought that I started seeing protests literally everywhere unfortunately which made me think about how effective these protests actually are like what have they accomplished over the last 5 to 10 years when they have been dominating our social and political landscape and unsurprisingly they have actually done more harm than good turning people away from the causes that they are trying to promote and in my eyes the best or worst example of this is how these radical activists these radical protesters have utterly destroyed environmentalism as a universal American cause and that is what we need to talk about today we also need to spend a few minutes obviously making fun of these insane protests that are now popping up and then we need to figure out how to push real solutions through on issues like the environment now before we start laughing at all these protests make sure that you like this video if you enjoy it subscribe to this new channel if you've not already and of course if you want to stay up to date on every single episode of the Brett Cooper show make sure to ring that notification Bell and if you want an exclusive newsletter and weekly dear br advice videos that are curated by you guys make sure to check out my subscriber only platform Cooper confidential the URL is right here you can also click the link in the description below now in case you missed it which if you live on X and social media like I do I don't know how you would but last week was International women's day which obviously means that women around the world felt the need to go out into the streets and March and protest and really I have no idea why we have equality things are actually going great for women right now actually we are dominating men in most spaces which is kind of a huge problem in my eyes but things are going well so why are we out in the streets marching I don't have an answer for you and the thing is I don't think these women actually know why either I mean at the women's March in Paris last week they were topless per usual they're always topless in Paris and they were protesting fascism in America by going topless isn't that lovely doesn't that just make you want to end fascism in America like I don't like focus on your own damn country like why on Earth do you have an American flag painted on your bare trap with a swastika that literally makes no sense and what does that have to do with International women's day like that is the question I keep asking is like how does this even make sense now in La they were of course screaming about trump it was all about Trump and Doge and Trump taking away their abortion rights which if you know anything about Trump if you followed his campaign at all if you know anything about his wife Melania and his agenda it is truly absurd it is actually devoid of reality because Donald Trump is actually quite pro-choice and and yet here are some of the signs that they were waving in the streets like ladies it is 2025 I do not want to see my body my choice anymore like I am genuinely just done I'm tired of it he's not even touched abortion we're two months into this presidency nothing has happened you live in Los Angeles you can still go get an abortion probably up to 9 months like why are you in the streets protesting that now as you saw in the crowd abortion was not the only thing that they were protesting and screaming about there were also a myriad of other issues which as you saw in Paris was happening around the world this was not just women issues on International women's day they were protesting everything and in Cleveland Ohio at their women's March I saw this sign that I thought really summed up the entire theme of international women's day 2025 just take a look at this they were just angry at everything this is a sign that this woman was holding in a video I saw where to even begin no words and they have a pride flag they have the save act crossed out they have another swastika that they are crossing out oh and yes you can see on the side they have a Ukraine flag so now we are supporting Ukraine through International women's day marches I mean like genuinely what does any of this do it's not cohesive at all you have no message you guys can't even get your heads together to figure out what you're actually angry about they don't know what they're angry about it's not really women's issues anymore because we're all doing great we have equality we've achieved all the things you guys have been screaming about for the last you know two decades they're just angry like could you please get out of the streets and leave us all alone and find a way to channel that anger like please go to the gym if you really need need to blow off steam maybe you could even row across the Pacific Ocean which actually veterans are doing I mean imagine this five veterans crossing the entire Pacific Ocean in a rowboat and yes you heard that right in a rowboat corser racing is a nonprofit that puts veterans in high stakes extreme Maritime challenges like literally rowing across the entire Pacific Ocean to help them transition for military service leaving the military is tough and many veterans struggle to find a sense of purpose structure and team after service corser racing gives them exactly that a new Mission a strong team and Hands-On business experience to build their future and this 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word follow them on social media at corser rcing and go to their website corser rising.org if you are interested in participating sponsoring an expedition or simply donating when veterans leave leave the military they don't lose their Drive their discipline or their leadership again that is corser rising.org now while women across the globe were angrily marching instead of working out or getting on a rowing machine like they should be doing simultaneously Tesla protests started popping up because of course everybody is not just angry at Donald Trump anymore they're also directing their anger at Elon Musk and these people who have now decided that Elon Musk is Public Enemy Number Two have started burning Teslas across the country and not only just burning individual Teslas but they have started breaking into Tesla dealerships and showrooms across the country even throwing rocks at innocent people that are just driving around in their individual Teslas all because they hate the fact that Elon Musk has taken away their endless checkbook that has been driving our country into literal bankruptcy I mean the scenes have just been ridiculous over the last couple of weeks this guy literally bought a Tesla just so that he could destroy it take a watch armed with a pickaxe and Sledgehammer these Two Fellas went to town on this Tesla we don't like what Elon Musk is doing this man would only give me his first name Greg Greg Greg but says he actually owns the white Model S I bought it just to destroy it and Greg says he coordinated the stunt with his friends because he doesn't like musk wow just stunning and brave this little group of four people supporting Elon by buying a Tesla only to spray paint it just hideous awful colors put a sign up and then go to town with a sledgehammer it l again it like the protest they make no sense nothing you are doing is affective Ive again you are actually supporting him by buying the damn car now another example and one that was Far larger than just one man with a sledgehammer was that in New York City protesters broke into and took over the Manhattan Tesla showroom just watch what [Applause] [Music] the we don't want we don't want wait but what are they what is this whoa what the a shattered glass cops are having to push people out they're dragging people out of the showroom what the hell we wait what are you doing to this guy uh pulling him off of private property my name is Frankie and I'm getting arrested today protesting Elon Musk bought his way into office he bought his way into heading a government agency he bought his power at the expense of the American people at the expense of our environment at the expense of our world and all of the people in it wow Frankie you are just you are so brave you are so stunning and brave thank you Frankie for getting arrested so that you can stop Elon Musk from saving our country from bankruptcy because that's really what you're trying to do now one thing that I want to point out that was just so ironic is that CNN was obviously covering this protest and in their article immediately after they said that the protests were mostly peaceful 2020 anyone do you remember the city's literally on fire stores being looted oh there it's mostly peaceful fire behind you fire fire fire they literally did it again 5 years later they're like I wonder if people forgot that we did that let's just dry one more time no you are breaking into stores you are setting cars on fire that is not mostly peaceful CNN but I digress we can move on from that now the most hilarious part of these Tesla protests in my opinion is that the people burning Teslas breaking into Tesla are also climate activists Planet over profit posted this and they said breaking hundreds of New Yorkers have swarmed and shut down the Tesla dealer in Manhattan six have been arrested after occupying the showroom protests are erupting Across America to reject musk's billionaire regime this is how we beat fascism massir action okay Planet over profit I want to just talk to you for a second because do you realize the irony of the fact that these are the electric cars that you demanded be mandated across the country the only real reason that EVS are so WID spread that we have so much Innovation and progress in this country in regards to EVS are because of Elon Musk and this is the man and the company that you have now decided to turn on I mean do you not realize and see that the first person at any environmental crisis in our country in the world is not our government which is sloppy and slow and lazy but is actually Elon Musk he does more to push forward clean energy to push forward Innovation to be there when disaster strikes than anyone else you look ridiculous almost as ridiculous as these just stop oil protesters some of my favorites have kind of missed them can't lie who wanted to get in on the fun last week what's so funny is that I was planning out this episode and in the back of my mind I was like man if only I had a just stop oil protest out of this I mean you guys know justop oil they're the people that threw soup on the Mona Lisa they superglue themselves to the concrete and block they are the most insane of the insane and they always have some like piece of poetry that they think is very prolific as they're doing it they're like throwing soup on the Moda Lisa being like we just need clean energy we are the Warriors and they're like throwing soup at you know famous works of art they are absurd anyway I was literally thinking that my brain being like I wish that I had that to include cuz that would just be perfect and then God provided and this really is just so rich because this organization as you well know by now is called just stop oil and this organization is pouring liquid latex which is made out of oil onto a robot made by the world's leading Electric Car Company the company that does not use gasoline I mean it is truly ironic it's about as ironic as these Planet over profit folks burning Teslas will simultaneously say that they are so worried about carbon emissions I mean make it make sense it is so ridiculous like no one environmentalism has become such a fringe issue when these are the world's leading proponents when these and Greta thunbergs are the ones that we see leading the charge no wonder normal people around the world are like yeah no I'm out like bring in the oil like I can't deal with you people if you're the one who's at the front of this cause I want no part of it and that issue right there is what I want to focus on for the rest of the video and so I called up my friend Benji backer who's the founder of ACC National which is the largest conservative Environmental Group and the founder of the new group nature is nonpartisan to give his take when people think of environmentalists they don't think of people who care about the environment anymore they think about AOC they think about Bernie Sanders they think about Leonardo decapria or Greta tunberg and these are people who don't really care about the environment they care about growing their own Brands and they they they care about basically making a political statement that is actually not just a political statement it's an extremist political statement what politicians going to look at through soap soup being thrown at a painting and think oh now I know exactly what I need to do to help the environment like that that does not help at all they're not even hearing from hikers and skiers they're hearing from radical people who don't have any ideas behind them they just have complaining and they just have extreme actions and so it basically has made the environmental movement completely ineffective that's such a key thing that Benji said was that these protests these environmental orgs they care more about pushing their brands forward than their issue forward and that's why it has never worked these protesters whether they be the topless French women whether they are people in the streets smashing Tesla Windows they want to be seen and they want to feel important at the end of the day that's really all they care about and their obvious focus on that only hurts the causes that they allegedly care so much about I mean watching somebody torch an electric car in the middle of a city while simultaneously screaming out of the other side of their mouth about climate change honestly makes me care less about the environment because I don't want to be associated with people who are as crazy as that and I'm not alone there over 80% of Americans self-identified as environmentalists back in 1990 because it was like everyone agreed that we we love these places we love our home we love nature and instead that got co-opted by partisan politics I would blame Al Gore and people on the left for that but now when people think of the environment when they go hiking when they go hunting when they go fishing when they go skiing they don't actually think about how much they're enjoying their love of nature uh only they're also thinking about you know the fact that this is caught up in political culture wars and it's so unnecessary so clearly radical left-wing climate protests do not unite us around the issue of environmentalism they fuel division they turn people off and they also expose a hypocritical obsession with attension over real solutions because again I don't know how many times I can say this but what do these protests actually accomplish I mean my beam dream sleep powder does more than they ever will and that Effectiveness is why I'm so excited to share it with you today beam is a company that is proudly founded in America and it's run by people who share our values they value hard work integrity and actually delivering results beam dream sleep powder is a science-backed healthy nighttime blend packed with ingredients shown to improve sleep so that you can wake up refreshed and ready to tackle the day dream is made with a powerful blend of 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that this week it came out that Brazil is cutting through 10 of thousands of Acres of the Amazon rainforest to build a new highway but not just any Highway way for any normal purpose I want you to guess what this highway is literally being built for it is being built to transport people to the C30 climate change Summit they are literally bulldozing Acres upon Acres of the Amazon so that they can fly people in and drive them in to talk about how we need to save the planet I mean you lit you cannot make this stuff up it is beyond parody here's an article about this massive stretch of Amazon rainforest destroyed for up coming cop3 climate Summits for Lane Highway this is a loss is a quote from somebody in the community like again this is just so absurd it exposes everything how much of a fraud so many of these activists actually are and guys what is even better is that the government had actually wanted to build a highway in this region since 2012 but according to the New York Post it had always been stalled it had always been halted and put on hold because of environmental reasons listen to this the state government of para initially hatched the idea for the thorough fair in 20 12 but it was repeatedly put on hold after concerns were raised over its environmental impact I mean again you literally can't make this up this was an idea that was rejected for over a decade because of environmental concerns but the moment that an environmental climate change Summit is coming to the area oh yeah sure let's bulldoze the Amazon all of our concerns about the environment who cares because the billionaires are coming to talk about how much better they are and all the things that we need to do as individuals to save the climate they're all going to fly in on their private jets while they lecture all of us about paper straws and driving e Vehicles while they bulldoze an entire part of the Amazon to get to their stupid conference now simultaneously in California there is also a hugely underreported story that again is just another perfect example of this and that is how the California government along with a myriad of different multi-million dollar climate change environmentalist nonprofits are pushing ranchers and Dairy Farmers out of the point raise National Seashore because they are hurting the environment and these are Dairy Farmers and ranchers that have been here for Generations that the government allowed to stay here in this National Reserve to help maintain the environment and the local economy but now after over a hundred years they are being pushed out to save the environment this article reads dead set on saving Point Raise environmentalists want to kill its best stewards and the article reads most of the dairy farms and the cattle ranches on point Rays National Seashore will soon disappear though the Ranchers have been leasing the land from the National Park Service for decades and they had an agreement saying that they could be there environmental groups sued the agency in 2016 alleging that agricultural pollution was disrupting local ecosystems earlier this year 12 of the 14 working ranchers accepted a buy out with an estimated $30 million from the environmental groups to end years of draining litigation and I know that $30 million seems like a huge number but split that up over 12 families who have mounting legal fees who have hundreds and hundreds of Acres on the coast in California that they will not be able to buy again they now need to relocate move their entire business businesses that they probably will not be able to start over again because they have been sued into Oblivion by these environmentalist groups and this right here is why they're being pushed out listen to this some environmentalists from these groups argue that removing farming and ranching will restore point race to a more natural state among their concerns are water quality issues created by manure lack of biodiversity invasive species overpopulation land deterioration and habitat destruction they argue that livestock agriculture is fundamentally incompatible with eological conservation that is crazy that like genu these are family regenerative farms and you are saying they are incompatible with ecological conservation now of course you and I I'm sure both know that that is utterly ridiculous and utterly unscientific and it is actually the complete opposite as this writer and this Dairy Farmer from the area wrote he said but the removal of responsible Farmers from point Rays doesn't restore nature it neglects it for more than 30 years Strauss family crey which I founded and its network of supplying organic Family Farms have shown that responsible farming restores ecosystems organic and regenerative farming practices can reduce greenhouse gas emissions put carbon back into the soil and Foster healthy soils that help Landscapes adapt to Drought flooding in severe storms on my Strauss dairy farm near Point Rays I have worked to implement a carbon neutral farming model we are working toward onar carbon neutrality by reducing methane emissions from Animals by more than 90% while maximizing soil carbon sequestration through regenerative practices like compost application and intensive rotational grazing farming responsibly can provide measurable scalable climate Solutions while feeding local communities high quality nutritious food again this shouldn't be a controversial issue this is common sense this is something that we should all be able to get behind this is helping not only local communities but California's environment which obviously we know it desperately needs the help but of course the real environmental is the California government they don't want to hear any of that logic they don't believe any of it they just want them gone but ironically as all of these Family Farms are having to get up and move after taking that buyout the California government has now realized that actually the cows can stay because they need something to graze that land but the family Farmers no they have to leave after generations and generations of being stewards of that land so they have to get out but they'll find some kind of contracted cow leas system to be able to graze the land because according to the nonprofits we have to save the Earth that apparently saved the native Tuli elk population on point rays that these lobbyists have been very concerned about one article wrote environmentalists scored a major victory on Wednesday when the National Park Service agreed to revise its Land Management plan at Point Race National seore to better serve the area's native Tuli elk species that's really what it's all about when you get to the Crux of the issue it's all about the damn elk and the article goes on and says advocates for the elk have locked horns in battle with the National Park Service for years over the effects of cattle ranching at the pristine Coastal site in Marin County I mean that is genuinely laughable it is absurd like no wonder people have turned their backs on environmentalism as Benji says so much of what the climate Community does is counterproductive this is a perfect example of the hypocrisy of the environmental community Community which is that we are going to destroy the environment to claim that we're saving it I just think that the environmental movement is not honest with themselves like we there is no perfect solution to things right it makes sense that you have to create a road to have a conference in Brazil but then Don't lecture people on how evil they are when they're doing something much more minimal than that in their own day-to-day lives and the reason why I wanted to tell you about both of those stories is because both of these examples show a pattern radical climate folks prioritize grand gestures or forcing their way over practical proven fixes again how many times can I say this it will never work their strategies are just not affected because people are done they are tired of being elbowed by these big environmentalists they are tired of being guilt tripped and emotionally manipulated by hypocritical attention Seekers and no wonder aggressive protesting and radical activism has the opposite effect these days yugov has a recent poll on this the majority of the public believe that protests rarely if ever make a difference but it's not just about making a difference it's about making a positive impact here you go the vast majority of Britain's 78% say that this kind of protesting hinders rather than helps a cause including 61% who believe it hinders a lot and even among those who say that they have taken part in protests 6 in 10 of these protesters 60% say that such protesting hinders a cause with a third saying that it helps so even the people that are actually protesting are admitting that it's not doing anything productive that is ridiculous so why are our lives being disrupted on a daily basis when it doesn't even matter well it's because they want the attention because that's really what it's all about I mean it's shocking that gluing yourself to the road and disrupting traffic or setting people's cars on fire does not make them sympathetic to your cause in all honesty it probably just makes them root more for the damn oil rig so congratulations that is what you've created and the thing that is so unfortunate is that as all of this division has been fueled those of us who genuinely love and care about the environment that love being outdoors that grew up camping and Hiking that love spending time in the mountains have Farms like me those of us who really care are left somewhere in the middle with nowhere to turn which is why Benji has created this new organization nature is not partisan which actually coincidentally is launching today on March 20th and this is the purpose behind it the environmental movement should stand for the 80% of Americans that care about the environment want sensible policies to solve those problems that's what the environmental movement should be about there's no organization out there and that's what Nature's nonpartisan is dedicated to doing is representing those people and also pushing for sensible policies that work for every every Amer I think most of us are are tired of the back and forth on a lot of policies right like it's just radically left policies and then we have to undo those policies and then we just kind of go back and forth until we if you look back we don't really actually make progress because there's all this back and forth if you don't have a sensible approach between the right and the left that actually stays true over Decades of time and doesn't get undone by the next Administration you don't make progress and the reason why that matters is I mean we've lost a third of the biodiversity in the United States since 1970 95% of the biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean has been lost since 1970 around the world like we're losing the nature around us and we need reforms to help us you know make sure that we're protecting those places but also doing so in a way that helps Humanity so now after going through all of this all of the ridiculous ineffective protesting the hypocrisy that we've seen where do we go from here because if the goal in terms of the environment is to actually preserve nature and stop natural disaster like these crazy California forest fires then we have to focus on Solutions obviously that should not be controversial and it's insane that that has to even be said but based on what we've been seeing for the last decade it's obvious that that has not been a priority so it's really easy to critique something it's a lot harder to come up with Solutions as you are critiquing something so what conservatives should have done and what we can do it's not like too late to do this is say here's what we don't like about the left's ideas here's what we should do instead we've done a good job of critiquing rightfully so bad ideas but we've done a really bad job proposing our own ideas and that has actually harmed Us in the end as conservatives and the country and I think again it's not too late to change that course and now with Trump back in office who is just on fire for change basically he's just ready to get things done who is taking meetings with nonpartisan environmentalists I do think that there is a lot of Hope and the time is right now there is not a better time to redirect this issue because the environment like so many important issues of our time should not be an issue that is dominated only by one side and we should not let these hypocritical insane attention [ __ ] control something that impacts all of us every single day I believe that we can reclaim that term as people who care about the environment who want to you know conserve it in a smart way for future Generations no matter if you hunt you fish you ski you take care of a farm you Ranch we all have a connection to Nature that is undeniable that makes you an environmentalist or at least it used to and it should again this is an American identity cultural opportunity to reclaim something that we all share make it an something that's all American again and make it about the environment again make environmentalism about the environment again and as Benji says this should not even be a political issue this should be a nonpartisan point of American Pride and in 2025 I think we can get back to that and the first thing we have to do is taking back the power from those insane protesters