{"id":1800912,"date":"2023-01-10T10:04:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T15:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1800912"},"modified":"2023-01-10T10:04:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T15:04:59","slug":"watch-prageru-reveals-confessions-of-an-environmentalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-prageru-reveals-confessions-of-an-environmentalist\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: PragerU Reveals \u2018Confessions Of An Environmentalist\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-prageru-reveals-confessions-of-an-environmentalist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1800912&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>One environmentalist has his say. \u201cconfessions\u201d of previously promoting the Left\u2019s climate change agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Gitt was a former CEO for a green company. He reflected on his experience in the most recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prageru.com\/video\/confessions-of-an-environmentalist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PragerU 5-Minute Videos<\/a> \u201cConfessions of an Environmentalist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust because you feel like you\u2019re doing the right thing doesn\u2019t mean you are. I have dedicated most of my life to protecting the environment,\u201d Gitt said. \u201cBut 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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. \u201cpristine as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"richText\">As part of his efforts, his firm was awarded a $60 million multi-year contract by the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"richText\">\u201cI 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,\u201d Gitt said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was only one problem: our project to build more energy-efficient homes was an utter failure,\u201d He confessed.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t good for the environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"richText\">Gitt started to reexamine his environmental vision. He realized that Gitt&#8217;s situation was a sign of something else. \u201ca much bigger problem.\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"richText\">Gitt concluded with five principles that will help you evaluate the best energy options for protecting people and the environment.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"richText\">He\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One environmentalist is speaking out with his \u201cconfessions\u201d of previously promoting the Left\u2019s climate change agenda. Brian Gitt, a former CEO of a green company, reflected on his journey in the latest PragerU 5-Minute Video, \u201cConfessions of an Environmentalist.\u201d \u201cJust because you feel like you\u2019re doing the right thing doesn\u2019t mean you are. 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