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Now fusion is a big game-changer because what happens when you have self-driving cars and unlimited cheap energy? You see all those people rioting in France. They were wearing the yellow vests. So those are the yellow vests that everybody who drives for a living in France wears, whether they're truckers or cab drivers or whatever. All of those people are going to be unemployed. All of them. Becaus…

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Now I made a bold prediction on social media yesterday and I predicted that we have reached peak climate change alarm. Now I'm not saying we've reached peak temperature. That's a separate thing. I'm saying that in terms of our alarm over it I think we've peaked. And here are the things I'm looking at to make that calculation.

Number one, what just happened in France. You saw that the population that is going to take the brunt of anything we do just decided they're not going to. They just decided that they're not going to take it. So I think other countries are going to look at what happened in France and they're going to say well you can make a law to tax our gas but it's gonna look like France when you do. You know there's going to be a riot. So I think the population has reached the peak tolerance for raising their taxes to deal with something that they can't quite feel and see and touch the way they can their paycheck. So that's the first thing.

Second thing, I think you're seeing is that every year that goes by and we don't see a catastrophe that's obviously a climate change-related thing, every time there's anything like a fire or whatever the news will say it's climate change but it's getting less and less believable because the ocean isn't going up every year. So every year seems pretty similar to the one before in terms of our experience on it. So there's that. Although the news will keep talking about any situations where it does look like it's climate change.

But maybe the most important one is this latest climate report that showed that the biggest risk is a 10% less GDP over 80 years than it could have been. So instead of the GDP going this much higher it's gonna go only this much higher. In other words we won't even notice it. So the most scary and credible current numbers about climate change tell us that looks like we can handle that. And then you add on top of that fusion and you add on top of it every other technology that will have some role in this and it's feeling like it's closer to solved than dire. That's what it feels like to me. And I'm not sure I would even have said that a month ago. I was actually really scared until the latest climate report. Scared in the sense that it would seem like a real danger we had to worry about. And then the climate report came out and it was designed to scare us and did exactly the opposite and said it costs a little money, we'll just get better air conditioning.

Yeah I told you that Richard Branson is involved with some kind of a three billion dollar prize for developing the best new kind of air conditioning. So if you have the best kind of new air conditioning in ten years and you've got better economies because things are just improving every year and you've got fusion maybe in ten, you're looking pretty good. Looking pretty good.

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I will be flying out in a little bit to snow country myself and I'm gonna have to get ready for that. I'll see if I talked about everything I want to talk about. Yes I did. Yes I did. Alright so it seems to me that the biggest problems in the world are being addressed. I think health care, health care is still the one that seems like it's dangling out there that the Trump administration is workin…

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