"You cannot talk about clean energy. You cannot email about it- thousands of employees in the US energy department have been completely silenced by censoring of the words climate change, decarbonization, green- there's others. I mean, I thought this was a joke. I thought this was just like a meme or massively exaggerated. But it's not. This is actually apparently real."
WATCH: The U.S bans the words ‘climate change’ 'Emissions' & 'Clean Energy' Oct 1 report The Electric Viking
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To be crystal clear, the US energy 0:04 department has banned these phrases and 0:06 many others. If you work at the US 0:09 Energy Department, you cannot talk about 0:12 these phrases about clean energy. You 0:15 cannot email about them. Basically, the 0:18 many many tens of thousands of employees 0:22 in the US energy department have been 0:25 completely silenced. They now are like 0:30 I don't know how you they're going to 0:32 have to think very carefully about what 0:34 they say in order not to be fired. Guys, 0:38 I normally try to temper down a lot of 0:40 the US hate, a lot of the comments about 0:42 US politics being crazy, 0:46 but uh it it kind of has gotten that way 0:49 now. This I don't know how democratic 0:51 you'd call this, right? The US 0:54 Department of Energy is attempting to 0:58 censor these following words: climate 1:01 change, decarbonization, 1:04 green. Uh, and there's others. I mean, I 1:08 thought this was a joke. I thought this 1:10 was just like a meme that I saw on 1:12 Facebook and people make a lot of stuff 1:14 on Facebook. Um there's posts on 1:17 Facebook saying, "Oh, this new this 1:19 happened or that happened or this this 1:21 is the country in the world that has the 1:23 most of this." And you I'm thinking, 1:24 "Oh, that's cool." And every time I see 1:26 these posts, I see thousands of likes. I 1:28 I'll look it up and very often it's 1:31 either fake, completely fake news, or 1:33 it's massively exaggerated. So, this is 1:35 what I thought this was happening here, 1:36 but it's not. This is actually 1:38 apparently real. Hello, my friends. 1:41 Welcome to the channel. I'm Sam Evans. 1:43 you're watching the Electric Viking. 1:46 YouTube's new algorithm means that 1:47 you're often not getting all of our 1:48 videos in your feed. There's 7,500. I'm 1:51 pretty sure you're probably not seeing a 1:53 lot of them. In the description, there 1:55 is a link to our newsletter. Click on 1:57 that and you can get an update every day 1:59 of all the latest news in the electric 2:02 car industry. the head of the US 2:04 Department of Energy. Um, 2:07 well, the guy was a former oil company, 2:11 Shill basically. And there was a memo 2:13 sent by the Department of Energy by 2:16 Rachel Overbeay, acting director of 2:19 external affairs. Rachel describes 2:20 herself as an oil and gas industry 2:23 leader and a political appointee. 2:26 Great. Um, so not a scientist, someone 2:29 who was just put in there to do the 2:32 bidding of whoever tells her what to do. 2:35 Basically, she's a minion. The memo 2:37 censuses Department of Energy employees 2:39 telling them not to use these phrases 2:41 that are relevant to their position and 2:43 to solving the greatest well problems 2:46 that the world has right now. So, the 2:47 memo is saying that department employees 2:50 can't use the word climate change 2:52 because it's fake. Donald Trump says 2:54 climate change is the greatest hoax in 2:56 human history. 2:58 Can't use the word green. They can't use 3:00 the word decarbonization. They can't use 3:03 the word emissions. They can't use the 3:05 word the phrase energy transition. They 3:07 can't use the phrase sustainability or 3:09 sustainable. They can't use the phrase 3:11 clean or dirty energy. And they can't 3:14 talk about carbon or CO2 footprints. 3:17 They can't also talk about tax breaks, 3:19 tax credits, or subsidies. Now, I should 3:23 point out that the Department uh of 3:25 Energy has also given subsidies of 3:27 nearly a billion dollars to to coal um 3:31 so far this year. Coal power is king, 3:35 says Trump. Not only can the workers and 3:37 scientists in the department not use 3:39 these words when communicating to the 3:41 public, but they're not even supposed to 3:43 use them in internal communications. 3:47 Guys, this is worse than China. Yes, 3:52 China is not really it's not really 3:56 democratic in terms of its politicians. 3:58 They're not uh 4:01 but they're not actually censoring 4:03 people from saying things like this. I 4:05 mean, this is not no one's no one in the 4:08 Department of Energy. They're not saying 4:10 Department of Energy is not saying you 4:12 can't badmouth your employers, right? 4:14 They're not saying you can't um go on 4:17 YouTube and and badmouth Trump, right? 4:21 They're saying you literally aren't 4:24 allowed to be involved in any discourse 4:26 about rational, normal things that the 4:29 West talks about. I have never seen this 4:32 level of censure and I don't know how 4:34 this could be legal. I I guys I have 4:38 never 7,600 videos and this is the point 4:42 in time after 7,600 videos 4 and a half 4:45 years of doing this job. The first point 4:48 where I'm just shocked. I'm just 4:49 literally sitting here in my chair just 4:51 going, "What the [ __ ] is going on? How 4:54 are Americans putting up with this? You 4:56 can't you can't put up with this, guys. 4:58 You you can't allow the government to 5:01 censor you like this. This is not This 5:04 is This is like I don't know some sort 5:08 of bizarre kind of almost a horror 5:11 movie. I mean, it's crazy. Anyway, the 5:14 timing of the memo is interesting, says 5:17 electric, given that public comment has 5:19 just ended on a plan from the Department 5:20 of Energy and the EPA to delete climate 5:22 science with the goal of raising fuel 5:24 costs by 76 cents per gallon to fill the 5:29 pockets of um oil companies. Department 5:33 of Energy openly admitted earlier this 5:34 year in a report signed off on by Chris 5:36 Wright that its plan would increase your 5:37 fuel costs, although its analysis did 5:40 not include the increased health costs 5:42 that would come along with the higher 5:44 levels of pollution that fossil fuels 5:46 would create. And they do. Thousands of 5:49 people a year every year die in the 5:51 United States. 5:52 Now, I'm not going to go on any further 5:54 because there's a whole lot of 5:55 information around this story, and 5:56 there's a whole lot of blather from 5:59 Electric and other people, and I get I 6:01 understand why they're annoyed. I'm 6:03 angry as well, but I don't see the point 6:05 in laboring this issue. My point here is 6:07 to say to you guys, this is real. This 6:09 is not anymore. There's a lot of news in 6:13 the US which has been funded by left and 6:16 dem Democrats and and a lot of it's been 6:18 fake to be honest. Let's just be real. A 6:20 lot of it's fake. A lot of right news is 6:21 fake. A lot of left news is fake. 6:23 There's fake [ __ ] coming from both 6:24 sides. But that has really harmed. It's 6:27 really, really hurt the left because 6:29 that fake news has been used to 6:31 discredit the left. This is not fake 6:34 news. This is the point where if you're 6:36 the right, you're the middle, you're the 6:37 left, doesn't matter. You've got to say 6:39 to yourself, "Damn, enough's enough. 6:42 Trump, Trump, this is ridiculous. This 6:45 is an absolute joke." What do you guys 6:50 think? Let us know in the comments. 6:51 Bye-bye. The Sydney EV International 6:54 Motor Show. If you want to get a 50% 6:57 discount on your tickets, all you got to 7:00 do click the link in the description and 7:03 use the promotion code that's in the 7:05 description. Just copy and paste that. 7:07 Now, I should mention there's only 200 7:09 tickets available per day. So, if you go 7:12 to use the promo code and you can't get 7:15 a ticket, wait till the next day. Don't 7:18 wait until the day before the show to 7:19 get your tickets because otherwise 7:20 you'll probably miss out on getting the 7:22 50% discount. 7:25 [Music]
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