RUSH: Now, this other thing that I want to get into — I\u2019m not gonna get into it now. I hope to get to it today, but I\u2019ve got a lot here I want to get to. I ran into a piece at an obscure website, and the title of it intrigued me. It said there are no natural resources. And, at first glance, it appeared to be one of these things that would be way, way too in the weeds to try to synthesize and explain and use as a topic or an issue-related talking point here on radio.<\/p>\n
But the more I read this, the more I discovered that it is right on the money and it prints out to four pages, and I\u2019m gonna be able to synthesize this, all of it down to less than one page. It is the epitome of optimism. It has all kinds of reassurances. You know, one of the things that the left has succeeded in doing is scaring Millennials.<\/p>\n
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I cannot emphasize enough how much young people really believe this planet has a limited number of days of habitat for humanity remaining. They have so bought into the apocalypse of climate change that it is something that to many Millennials, more than you would ever know, actively scares them every day, has them upset every day. They have been propagandized.<\/p>\n
They have been so indoctrinated with the pessimism of their own demise, their own destruction, that other human beings, their parents and grandparents and great-grandparents have caused. They are told that we\u2019re gonna run out of natural resources in five years, 10 years, 15, 20 years, that we\u2019ve gotta get a handle on the population. We cannot possibly sustain life supporting systems on this planet with any more people on it. We simply can\u2019t.<\/p>\n
They have been inundated with apocalyptic point after apocalyptic point. And you can\u2019t blame them. They\u2019ve been assaulted with this from the very earliest of their formative years. And this pessimism and this apocalyptic tint to everything, it works. Pessimism sells. Crisis creates immediate attention spans.<\/p>\n
And what has accompanied all of this is the inclusion of the possibility of redemption. We might be able to save the planet. We might be able to sustain life supporting systems \u201cif.\u201d And the if requires that all of these kids that bought into this stuff essentially support socialism. Socialism, not by name, has been presented as the salvation or the solution, government running things. They must accept the belief that their activities and the activities of their parents and grandparents have led to the near end of life supporting systems on the planet.<\/p>\n
They can be redeemed, however, if they admit to this and then take immediate steps to live different lives than their parents, grandparents, and great grandparents did. And there are so many people that have fallen for it that it\u2019s scary. And a great example — remember Paul Ehrlich? We talk about him occasionally.<\/p>\n
I remember back in the early seventies, I\u2019m in Pittsburgh, I\u2019m 20 years old, 21 years old. The program director of the radio station I\u2019m working at went out and bought a bunch of copies and gave them to all of us deejays and said, “You gotta read this. This is so important.” You know what the book was? The Population Bomb.<\/p>\n
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And it was about how humanity could not survive beyond the year 2000 or 2010 if it continued to use up natural resources at the rate. So it was a book that heralded and promoted any mechanism whatsoever to limit the number of humans born, conceived, alive on the planet. And it is shocking.<\/p>\n
Now, I never fell for it. I had a great foundational upbringing. I never fell for it. I thought it was bogus from the get-go. But I was the only one. Because pessimism sells. Apocalyptic predictions penetrate people\u2019s boundaries. Today, Paul Ehrlich is still alive, he\u2019s still involved at Stanford. He\u2019s still teaching this stuff. He\u2019s been proven wrong so many times, you can\u2019t count it, and he remains a gospel-like guru.<\/p>\n
Now, this piece that I stumbled across illustrates and points out how in fact there really aren\u2019t any natural resources. If you\u2019re intrigued by that, I don\u2019t blame you. There are no natural resources.<\/p>\n
The point of this piece is human creativity, human innovation, human exploration, the basic structure and existence of the human being overcomes all of these apparently apocalyptic doom and gloom scenarios because the way around so-called limited resources is the human mind. And I will explain how the piece details that when I finally get to this. In the meantime, a brief time-out now, we\u2019ll get back to the phones after this.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: No, no, no. I\u2019m just telling you, every sci-fi book, every sci-fi movie is about the upcoming dystopia. The Handmaid\u2019s Tale, all of this stuff, sci-fi movies that you never heard of, Marvel stuff that you\u2019re never heard of that young people are watching today, they are bombarded with the end of the world, the end of America, and it\u2019s all being caused by certain people. And it\u2019s not that an individual movie here or there has a deleterious effect, but if it\u2019s a constant, overwhelming assault on the senses.<\/p>\n
I remember when this program started back in 1988, John Fund was doing pieces about the upcoming danger of kids doing nothing but playing video games. He was worried about the kinds of things that were being programmed into the games, manufactured in China, you know, by the ChiCom government. He was concerned about the dumbing down and the erasing of sharpness around the brain with a constant exposure to video games and so forth.<\/p>\n
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People laughed, \u201cCome on, John, it\u2019s just kids being kids. It just replaces other childlike activity that kids did before video games came along. Don\u2019t worry, John, everybody\u2019s gonna adjust to it.\u201d Well, now video games have morphed into social media. And I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anybody who thinks that social media is just an innocent little aspect of our culture. But look, I think we can overcome and triumph over all of this. We always have. We can\u2019t ignore it is the point.<\/p>\n
Now, I\u2019ll get to this other piece on the resources, \u2019cause it\u2019s just fabulous. It\u2019s the kind of thing, it\u2019s the kind of daily awareness and reminder everybody needs about the positive aspects, the goodness and the decency of a free and functioning human mind and how amazing it is.<\/p>\n
The first thing that comes to mind, the first illustration of this — and I\u2019m getting a little ahead of myself here — go back 10 to 15 years or however far back you have to go, when you first remember being told that we\u2019re gonna run out of oil and thus gasoline and home heating oil and every derivative of oil, we\u2019re gonna run out of it maybe in your lifetime or maybe in a hundred years or maybe in 200 years. And ask yourself, did you believe it? Did it worry you, did it scare you? Because you do believe it, experts report this stuff, people end up believing it.<\/p>\n
And then we were told that oil was a fossil fuel and as a fossil fuel it of course was limited \u2019cause there are only so many dead animals that we could dig up that have been fossilized that then created wherever they roamed the earth, these deposits of so-called fossil fuels. I mean, the supply of dinosaurs, for example, was not infinite. And so the supply of fossil fuels was infinite, and we were gonna run out at some point, and that led everybody to conserve. We lowered speed limits to 55, gasoline prices skyrocketed. We had contrived shortage.<\/p>\n
All of this stuff, it was all part of the psychological game that was needed to make people believe in the finite supply of things, and the reason for that was ultimately to raise prices on it all. But you don\u2019t hear about that anymore, because the whole idea that I\u2019ll comes from fossilized dinosaurs is gone. Oil is being produced all the time. The earth is making oil everywhere. We just have to find it.<\/p>\n
Remember it wasn\u2019t long ago the United States, you would hear this in political campaigns every year, “We\u2019ve got to do something about the dependence on foreign oil. We are too subject to the whims of people who hate us, like the militant Islamists in Saudi Arabia.”<\/p>\n
How many campaigns did we put up with this, that we had no oil, that American oil wells are being capped because producers couldn\u2019t make any money, they\u2019re being capped forever. U.S. oil production plummeting, down to absolutely nothing. We\u2019ve become totally dependent on Saudi Arabia or anywhere else we could buy it, the Russians.<\/p>\n
From then — and that\u2019s not very long ago — we are now among the largest exporters of oil and producers of oil in the world. Now, how did this happen? How did we go from being total prisoners and totally dependent on the Saudis to now having more oil than they do? How did it happen? A simple invention called fracking, invented and created by the human mind.<\/p>\n
We went from a belief of finite fossil fuel resources, so finite that your grandkids might run out during their lifetimes, to now we are presented with an abundance of those same fossil fuels and abundance of oil to the point that we have become among the largest producers in the world. How does that happen?<\/p>\n
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Well, was the first assertion true? Was there ever really a finite supply or is that just another typical scare tactic put out by people who want to control other people\u2019s minds? Or did the people who told us this however long ago really believe it? Did they really believe that there was only 200 years of oil left and boy we need to really develop those windmills, Rush, and we need to really get those solar panels, Rush, because we\u2019re gonna run out of oil.<\/p>\n
Really? Now we\u2019ve got all this investment in alternative energy that is not sensical, it doesn\u2019t make any economic sense whatsoever. The amount of public land that would be required to create a bunch of wind farms or solar farms to come anywhere close to what oil gives, it\u2019s not possible. We don\u2019t have enough land. And what would it look like if it were nothing but solar panels or giant giant windmills? It\u2019s totally insufficient.<\/p>\n
There isn\u2019t anything out there that we have now that will replace oil, including Tesla batteries. There\u2019s nothing. Thank god some people didn\u2019t fall for this. So now we have fracking. We have found a way to get oil out of rock, folks. We haven\u2019t had to go dig for deep deposits where we thought the dinosaurs once roamed. I\u2019m kind of mocking this because some people really believe, when they heard fossil fuels, that they meant direct descendants of dinosaurs and there are only so many dinosaurs so that meant we were gonna run out of oil. There\u2019s so many myths that have been attached.<\/p>\n
The point is the earth continues to make oil. It has to. It has to or we would have a finite supply. But we don\u2019t. It\u2019s making it somehow, and we can find it somehow. It\u2019s in places even today we don\u2019t know how to go get it at an economically feasible price. How do you get the oil that\u2019s 20,000 feet below the ocean floor? How do you do that and make money doing it? But someday we\u2019re gonna be able to. And someday we\u2019re gonna create something that runs on an energy source that\u2019s not oil. We\u2019re nowhere near there, but it will happen, and it will happen because of the human mind.<\/p>\n
The human mind is the greatest resource on this planet today. That is why education needs to spur the usage of the human mind and not propagandize it and not indoctrinate it, but rather to open it up, to expand it. Because it is, the human mind is how we have overcome every emergency, every tragedy, every apocalyptic prediction. The human mind is the natural resource of all natural resources.<\/p>\n
The American left today, on the contrary, attempts to tell people that humanity is the problem in nature, and you don\u2019t need me to remind you, you\u2019ve seen it yourself. That if man were not walking the earth, this species would still be here or that forest would still be there or who knows what much better circumstance would exist if only man were not walking the planet.<\/p>\n
The American left today believes that greatest destructive force on the planet is the conservative mind. The second most destructive force is humanity in general. And this they teach, this they indoctrinate, this they propagandize. And they\u2019ve been very successful as convincing younger generations of people that other people, that other human beings are the problem in the world, when in fact the solution to every problem that exists will be found in the human mind. There\u2019s nothing like it on earth. There\u2019s nothing close to it. There\u2019s not a computer, a supercomputer, an algorithm.<\/p>\n
There isn\u2019t anything man-made that is close to the human mind in function, in invention, in creation, in implementation, in usage, in potential. There is nothing. And so anything that seeks to unlock the ability of the human mind for the good and the decent is unstoppable.<\/p>\n
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And it is why throughout your life and your parents\u2019 lives and your grandparents\u2019 lives we have all grown up with apocalyptic predictions. We\u2019ve all been told this or that or the other is gonna end and die out, go instinct, and we\u2019re gonna be in deep doo-doo. And so we need to start conserving this and that and the other. None of it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n
Now, conservation is an intelligent part of stewardship, but conservation\u2019s not the solution to anything! Growth is. Productive, creative growth is the solution, including within the human mind, not conservation. Yet talk to your young people, your kids, grandkids, and they\u2019ll convince you one way or the other that we\u2019ve gotta conserve everything. That\u2019s what they\u2019ve been taught. They\u2019ve been taught limits. They\u2019ve been taught narrow limits, low limits, narrow boundaries.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ve been taught that you and your parents were the problem, the reason the polar bears are endangered, which they\u2019re not, polar bear population is at an all-time high, is because you — even though you didn\u2019t intend to — you were destroying the planet by driving one of these big cars around or your other wasteful use of energy. I mean, I could take this as far down the road as you want, to illustrate the point. Why do you think we have so many people riding bicycles? Is it the health craze or is it something else? Think about that.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: There is no such thing as settled science and there is no such thing as settled thinking, but the left wants you to believe that there is.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, I want to get back to this business about the story I ran into, a lot of people said, \u201cThis is too dense for radio, Rush,\u201d but it\u2019s not too dense for me on radio. This piece entitled, “There Are No Natural Resources,” it\u2019s by Donald Boudreaux and it\u2019s written for a website, the American Institute for Economic Research.<\/a><\/p>\n And the point here is that all the talk about the finite amount of natural resources is really overdone and not relevant because of one thing, and that is the human mind. The human mind is the greatest natural resource on the planet, and the human mind has proven over and over again it\u2019s ability to triumph over whatever pessimists and negativists lay out.<\/p>\n Now, Democrats and leftists would have us all believe that we are running out of natural resources. And so we have to limit the use of them in order to make them last. But it is proven over and over again in real life with evidence that any pair of eyeballs can see that the human mind and economic growth increases natural resources!<\/p>\n I mentioned Paul Ehrlich earlier. When he wrote his book, The Population Bomb, an economist, I think it was the University of Maryland — I\u2019m not sure where — famous man now deceased, his name was Julian Simon. They made a bet. There have been books written about this bet. Long articles written about the bet. If you search Google or DuckDuckGo<\/a>, wherever you search “Julian Simon and the bet” and you\u2019ll learn everything you need to know about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n And on every one of them, Julian Simon won. Paul Ehrlich was wrong about every item in the bet. Every natural resource over a period of years defined in the bet, as the population grew, so did the supply. It\u2019s true of our food supply. The population is expanding geometrically, folks, and so is our food supply. Starvation is down. Hunger is down. Poverty is declining.<\/p>\n One of the great unwritten and untold stories in the world right now is the decline worldwide of poverty, and one of the primary reasons for it is the growth of human populations and the adaptation of various forms of capitalism in the production of food that is creating enough.<\/p>\n Now, some of you listening to me who have a leftist tilt think that what I have just said has got to be made-up rotgut, and I\u2019m telling you, it isn\u2019t! Poverty is on a rapid decline. Poverty worldwide has never been lower expressed as a percentage than it is today. And the population has been growing. The reasons for this have been exposed in Julian Simon\u2019s bet with Paul Ehrlich and they are exposed in the thinking behind this piece at the American Institute for Economic Research.<\/p>\n We do not need to conserve natural resources because we\u2019re running out of them. We do not need to limit the use of natural so-called resources \u2019cause we\u2019re running out of them because they won\u2019t last because it\u2019s the exact opposite. It has been proven the human mind and economic growth increase natural resources. It\u2019s all about need. It\u2019s all about need and desire and innovation and creativity.<\/p>\n The natural resource of oil and gas — I\u2019ve used these examples earlier in the program — we have expanded the supply! We have expanded the supposedly limited, finite supply of oil and natural gas. We have more of it than we\u2019ve ever had before. How is this possible? As the population has grown and as more and more people buy cars and drive cars and as the price of oil has plummeted and people have been able to drive more cheaply and air-condition their homes more commonly, have been able to afford the greater use of energy, how in the world has the supply grown?<\/p>\n We knew it was there, but we couldn\u2019t get it. In other words, we\u2019ve learned how to drill sideways. We\u2019ve learned how to drill through rock, economically and affordably and extract what\u2019s always been in there. We have expanded the natural resources of oil and natural gas. We have actually made more of it.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Now, follow me on this, folks. Economic growth prevents the depletion of resources. It\u2019s the exact opposite of what many people would like you to believe. Many people think economic growth is gonna lead to the depletion of sources. More people accessing finite supplies means supplies dwindling. It\u2019s the exact opposite. The United States is living proof of this each and every day. Western civilization is proof of this every day.<\/p>\n Economic growth prevents resource depletion by supplying humanity with greater quantities of the ultimate resource itself, human minds. More and more open, curious, working human minds overcome more than anybody would ever dream.<\/p>\n Now, have you ever heard of the Malthusian trap? You know what the Malthusian trap is? People like Ehrlich and leftists believe it. And essentially the Malthusian trap is — there\u2019s another name for it called the population trap. The Malthusian trap — leftists believe it — is a condition where excess population, too many people, would stop growing because of a shortage of food. More people, more people eating more food, depleting the food supply, meaning the population would eventually slow down.<\/p>\n It\u2019s named for Thomas Robert Malthus who suggested that while technological advances could increase a society\u2019s supply of resources like food and improve the standard of living, at some point population growth would wipe out the abundance of various resources.<\/p>\n And that has been the foundation of beliefs like Ehrlich and others who believe that more and more people lead to the death of people because the end of resources. And it\u2019s the exact opposite, folks. The United States is living, waking proof of it each and every day. More and more minds, creative minds surviving into adulthood interacting with each other, creating, producing, inventing, discussing, this is the ultimate resource of the planet.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: For the human mind to work as the greatest natural resource, it has to be free. And that\u2019s the rub. It has to be free. And even in the United States today, where there is an ongoing movement toward propagandizing the young and indoctrinating the young, there remains free mind, people that remain immune to it.<\/p>\n This is why I think it\u2019s so important for all parents to make sure that their kids\u2019 minds remain open and curious, learn how to think, resist apocalyptic, pessimist things, resist indoctrination and propagandizing and just strive to remain free and maintain a society of free people.<\/p>\n And the article goes on to say that one of the greatest assistance or aides to this whole process of creative human minds is immigration, legal immigration. Immigration that is born of serious assessment of applicants who want to come to America. You choose the best. You choose the people who are the most accomplished or show the most potential. That really, really want to come, really, really want to be Americans.<\/p>\n The correct answer was anything other than that. \u201cI want to make as much as I can or I\u2019m here to maximize every opportunity that comes along. I don\u2019t know how much it\u2019s gonna be worth.\u201d That was the correct answer. Well, everybody has their comfort level. Every human being does, so you shake it up with new arrivals. This why when you\u2019re in a group, you\u2019re at a company and somebody new comes in and they\u2019re all enthusiastic and they can\u2019t wait to get started, but you\u2019ve been there 10 years, five years, whatever, and you look at this new arriving enthusiasm and you kind of smile and you maybe even get a little cynical.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, well, they\u2019ll learn,\u201d he-he, \u201cthey\u2019ll learn.\u201d But you need it. You need newly arriving enthusiasm. You need people showing up to whom it\u2019s all brand-new, to whom it\u2019s all exciting, to whom there is no upward limit. And they, in turn, inspire other kinds of people to reenergize and get in gear. And that\u2019s one of the great functions of legal immigration or any other system that funnels newness.<\/p>\n This is what\u2019s great about younger generations getting older and finally maturing and entering the workforce. But if they\u2019re not taught in this manner, if they\u2019re not being prepared, if they arrive at adulthood feeling America has no future because it\u2019s racist, sexist, bigoted or it\u2019s unfair or what have you, then nobody is served, particularly them. 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This article outlines settled thinking, settled thinking, settled science. Climate change is said to be settled science. It isn\u2019t! I mean, they say it\u2019s a consensus of science. You\u2019ve heard me say I don\u2019t know how many times, there\u2019s no consensus in science. Not up for a vote. And it isn\u2019t settled. A lot of thinking is said to be settled, but it isn\u2019t!<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/APP-091418-DuckDuckGo.jpg\")
But, in a nutshell, Julian Simon bet Ehrlich that over a period of years in the future — and they picked a bunch of natural resources like aluminum and nickel and tungsten. Simon\u2019s point was that as the population grew, so would the supply of these resources. Now, Ehrlich said, “Well, you\u2019re crazy! If the population\u2019s gonna grow, those resources are gonna deplete!” And that was the source of the bet.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/APP-100818-Rush-Burn-Globe.jpg\")
To a closed-minded leftist, it\u2019s impossible. It doesn\u2019t make any sense. Well, the United States has become the number one producer of oil and gas in the world. It isn\u2019t Saudi Arabia with their riches of oil buried beneath desert sands. We have now removed our dependence on the Middle East because the human mind developed fracking and other ways to find oil and natural gas where previously it was impossible to get it.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/RushFlag5.jpg\")
It is theorized that new arrivals of anything shake it up. Everybody gets settled, everybody gets set in their ways, everybody has a comfort level. I told the story, Merrill Lynch back in 1980, San Francisco, if you had a job interview with them they asked you the question, \u201cHow much money do you want to earn here?\u201d If you gave them a number, you were disqualified. You didn\u2019t know it, but you were. They figured that if you said, \u201cI want to make two million a year.\u201d They figured if you did, you\u2019d stop working when you made two million because that was your comfort level.<\/p>\n