WATCH: PragerU Reveals ‘Confessions Of An Environmentalist’
One environmentalist has his say. “confessions” of previously promoting the Left’s climate change agenda.
Brian Gitt was a former CEO for a green company. He reflected on his experience in the most recent PragerU 5-Minute Videos “Confessions of an Environmentalist.”
“Just because you feel like you’re doing the right thing doesn’t mean you are. I have dedicated most of my life to protecting the environment,” Gitt said. “But I went about it the wrong way. I thought I was acting morally, protecting the well-being of people and the planet. In fact, I was harming both.”
Gitt believed solar and wind power were the only way to avoid environmental disaster. Gitt saw fossil fuels as an enemy and wanted to preserve the outdoors. “pristine as possible.”
He founded a composting business, was the executive director for a non-profit that promotes green construction, and then he led a consulting company to improve energy efficiency in homes.
As part of his efforts, his firm was awarded a $60 million multi-year contract by the Obama administration.
“I thought I was making a real difference in the world. I was surrounded by smart, successful, ambitious people who shared my beliefs and my heartfelt desire to change things. And my company had lots of money and lots of government support,” Gitt said.
“There was only one problem: our project to build more energy-efficient homes was an utter failure,” He confessed.
Even with government incentives, his hopes to improve home energy were too costly for many families. The government was pleased with the effort, but the results weren’t good for the environment.
Gitt started to reexamine his environmental vision. He realized that Gitt’s situation was a sign of something else. “a much bigger problem.” He found that the billions of dollars spent on climate change in the past two decades had only reduced fossil fuel dependence by 3 percentage points. This he called a poor return on investment.
Gitt concluded with five principles that will help you evaluate the best energy options for protecting people and the environment.
These are reliability, affordability, security and scalability. He is particularly insightful in his focus on land use, as he pointed out that the more land required to produce energy, then the greater the loss of wildlife habitat.
Gitt used the example of a typical 1,000 megawatt nuclear power plant. It takes only one square mile to run, he said. For the same amount of energy produced by solar farms, 75 times more land is required than for wind farms. Wind farms require 360x more.
He’s still devoted to improving the planet, but Gitt argues that a new approach is needed to get results. You can watch the entire video below.
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