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Elon Musk: “One sort of bad thing about the environmentalist movement is…”

Featuring: Elon Musk, Senior Advisor to the President, Head of Department of Government Efficiency | National

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Published | Video Starts at 32:18

And like, I do think that one sort of bad, like, bad thing about the environmentalist movement is that the in, in the, in in the One sort of bad thing about the environmentalist movement is that...people start to view humans as a plague on the surface of the Earth. as a fundamentally bad thing, and with the implication that if all humans disappeared somehow Earth would be, would be better off. This is the extinctionist movement. (32:18–32:43)

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Asserts that a negative aspect of the environmentalist movement is viewing humans as a plague.

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