oing his job. And this was absolutely his job.

So whether or not you believe that the reason he was doing his job was for his own personal interest, completely irrelevant. The system allows him to pursue his self-interest. He did it in front of lots of witnesses. So long as it's also his job that's how it works.

All right so this is another one of those stories that's too complicated for the public to follow. Law sort of like Russiagate. So it allows us to just retreat to our bias. Anytime you add complexity to a story it just allows people to retreat to their team and say well my team was right. I don't know what's going on here but my team is right. So that's what's happening. You're not seeing anybody who's got any kind of a reasoned opinion on any of this stuff.

So there I keep seeing stories about the youth of this country are having eco-anxiety. In other words they're so worried about climate change that they're actually having mental health issues. Like legitimate mental health issues. It's not a laughing matter. These are children being damaged by the games that adults are playing. And adults are, I say games because climate change is a sort of a political football and in order for the adults to sell their version of climate change to other adults it necessarily ends up scaring the kids to death. Maybe literally. I mean if you scare enough kids somebody's gonna die because of it at least once. It's a big country.

And so I saw a tweet from March Nighter, one of our favorite nuclear energy advocates, and he pointed out that nuclear energy is actually the cure for eco-anxiety. And I thought about it. It was like that's actually true. If you were to actually accurately describe the risks of the new generations, you know the current and future generations of nuclear energy, and you were to tell children accurately, hey children this is the safest technology we have for energy. Every other technology has killed more people. And here's the thing. No matter what happens with the planet even the most aggressive estimates are that we'll be better off in the future not worse. Kids don't understand that. When kids hear that the climate is going to heck what they hear is that the world is going to go bad. That their experience of life will be worse than the ones before.

Here's the thing. Even the climate experts are not saying that. The best estimate on economics is that over the next 80 years the GDP will be 10% less than it could have been but it will still be maybe five to ten times better than it is now. So the number of people who will be poor in the future no matter what the climate does is going to go way down. The number of people who have a better life is probably going to continue going up as it has through most of human history and certainly modern history.

So who is teaching the children that they're doomed? Bad teachers. Any teacher who understood the math of it, who understood the history of it, who understood that nuclear energy is just sitting there waiting to be used to solve the problem. It is. We already have the solution to climate change. We have it. Who's telling the kids that we already have the solution to it and it's nuclear energy?

All right now obviously there are government reasons and political opinion and public opinion and all that. So the things that need to be solved but they're fairly minor compared to whatever the children are worrying about. The fate of the planet. They will be better off almost in every situation. I'll bet there isn't one climate forecast that doesn't also have those same children better off in the future. They're just not as better off as maybe they could have been. That's the claim. That's their claim. That's not even me reinterpreting what they're saying or anything. That's their explicit public primary claim. The things will be a lot better but they could have been even a little bit better.

So it almost makes me wonder if I need to fix this. Meaning that this is a communication problem. That children need to be deprogrammed. So perhaps I could write a one-pager to put the, let's say that the child version of what I just said into an easy to digest, maybe a page is too much and maybe two paragraphs would be maximum because remember it's kids so you have to really shrink it down to its tiniest little thing. So why don't we tell kids that if they promote the modern version of nuclear energy, not the old stuff that was dangerous but the modern version, if they promote that and if they know that carbon scrubbing technologies are a thing they should feel good. Because not only is our generation not destroying the world, our generation made the world a lot better. Don't you think? Would you agree that when I say our generation I'm gonna take my generation and every adult you know from let's say from 40 to infinity, you know over 40 let's say, the over-40 generation which you would argue had the greatest influence on the way things are right now. I feel like the world is way better. If you look at the amount of poverty way down. Isn't everything better than it was 40 years ago, 60 years ago? I think everything's better and that's not going to change. And the kids need to know that.

But here's the deal. Those kids are gonna be the ones changing it all. Right? We did our job. The greatest generation that was you know the one before me fought World War II, built this country into something amazing. I kind of think they did their job. I also feel like my generation did its job. I think we did our job. You know my generation was protesting the Vietnam War and apparently that worked. We didn't do a good job with Iraq but I'm not sure that was the public. That was more of the government. So that's the good news.

All right I feel like I have jabbered enough. I'm jabbering all over the place. I would like to put in a plug for my book Loserthink. Let me tell you some true facts before you decide when you're gonna buy my book Loserthink and before you decide if you want the audiobook or the hard copy. Let me tell you a few facts.

In 2013 I published my book How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big. And I predicted at the time that people wouldn't understand when it was published how important it would be. Now that was the book that introduced the idea of systems being better than goals which I think you've observed has become a common public understanding since then. That all came from me. And then you have also heard the i