w, these rich people don't even want to make money. They don't even care about money. Let me tell you, the rich people in this room, these are the ones who want to solve climate change for you no matter how much it costs them. Even if they have to give up their Maseratis, they're going to work for your benefit by joining a meeting and talking. And you might say, but what have they changed? To which I say, well they certainly have proposed things. I know, but like what's actually happened? Well have you seen the ten point plan? I know, but it was actually different because of the World Economic Forum. Well have you noticed that the things they're recommending are part of the trend? Yeah, but that doesn't mean they did anything.

This is my current belief about the World Economic Forum. It's a Dilbert situation where rich people are just covering their asses and creating this basically effectively it's a human PowerPoint presentation that says they're doing the right things but they're not doing the right things. They're not doing the right things. The other possibility is that they mean all this crazy that you think they really mean. I'm sorry if you believe that they believe a plan to do any of that crazy that you've heard about. It's all signaling. That's my current belief. Now that doesn't mean that's what they're thinking, just to be clear. That doesn't mean that when Jamie Dimon goes there or whoever it doesn't mean he's thinking, all right I gotta go do the theater. None of this is going to happen. I don't want it to happen. I'm just going to go do the theater. I doubt it's that simple. It's just everybody knowing what's in their interest. This is the George Carlin explanation. You don't need a conspiracy when everyone knows what they need to do. They all know what they need to do. The World Economic Forum doesn't invite stupid people unless they're celebrities, am I right? So it's basically brilliant business people and leaders and idiots, celebrities, so that you'll think, oh they really agree with those celebrities. It looks like it's a whole bunch of people that even celebrities are on board with us. I think all the rich people are like, oh cool, we get to go someplace and meet some celebrities and get out of town and go skiing. And when we get back we can say we're working on the big problems of reality when nothing like that is happening. It's kind of brilliant.

I watched in horror as Representative Sylvia Garcia, Democrat from Texas, tried to embarrass Matt Taibbi and then Michael Shellenberger at this congressional hearing. And I'm not even going to give you the details of the ridiculous questions she asked. I'm just going to tell you that I've never seen two people react in a more perfect way to that level. The normal way to react when somebody says to you you're in public and you're being grilled is you either get the button-down approach like, yes Representative, I understand what you're saying but my reasoning is this. All right, and that's never really good because it's just somebody acting reasonable and then somebody's slapping them over and over again. The other way is to react angrily. No, no, you're lying. We did not say that or that did not happen or you're exaggerating. Right, and those can make you look bad too. I mean you could win that way but it gives you, you know. But what Taibbi and Shellenberger did was just the best. They just couldn't keep the smiles off their face, which was clearly signaling, oh my