This Tuesday CBS Mornings co-host Tony Dokoupil once again took to the streets to lecture unsuspecting Americans on why they should care about a favorite left-wing agenda item – this time it was climate change. Going to Texas’s Dallas World Aquarium with radical climate activist Katherine Hayhoe, the anchor ambushed visitors and forced them into conversation about environmentalism.
“Climate change is a major global threat but not yet a major topic of kitchen table conversation,”Dokoupil protested as the segment began. Then he warned: “And, in fact, that may be the biggest threat of all…” The frustrated host was perplexed as to why everyone wasn’t constantly talking about climate change after being scolded by liberal elites: “You might think all this extreme weather, fueled by runaway global warming, accompanied by endless warnings from scientists and activists, celebrities and world leaders, is also a big talker for people at home.”
Dokoupil questioned an innocent couple. “How often do you talk about climate change?” The man turned to his wife/girlfriend and wondered: “Have we once talked about climate change? Maybe once or twice in our, you know, seven-year relationship.”
“On a recent day at the Dallas World Aquarium, we found most people just don’t usually get into it,”Before asking the two women, the journalist confessed: “Have you ever in your life started a conversation intentionally with someone else about the issue of climate changes?”The pair denied that they had ever done so.
Dokoupil narration: “The question, of course, is why? If climate change threatens all of us, shouldn’t all of us be talking about it?” Hayhoe was shown arguing that “Most people are worried about this.” Dokoupil advised: “What you’re supposed to do, Hayhoe argues, the most important thing any of us can do, is the one thing so many of us have been avoiding – we have to talk about it.”
He asked his friend to be an activist. “You think regular people can start a revolution on this by having conversations in their community?”Hayhoe responded: “I think that’s the only way a revolution has ever started.”
“To see how she does it, without devolving into politics or argument, we started some conversations of our own,” Dokoupil touted. It was then a series Hayhoe lectures to Aquarium-goers about climate fearmongering.
Did you know that 90% of global warming issues have been caused by 90 businesses since the dawn of the industrial age ?…? Do you know how many people die every year because of air pollution?…Almost 9 million….Here’s the thing, if we live in Texas, we’re getting hit hardest of any state. The heat, floods and hurricanes are all part of our lives. The arctic heating has made it worse than the winter storm we experienced.
She even compared the left’s climate change agenda to the civil rights movement: “You know, 150 years ago, women couldn’t vote. Civil rights existed 70 years before that, as you can see. How did all that happen? Because people began talking about it ….They started to say that this was not fair and this is the wrong way for the world. The world has to be different.”
Following the taped report, Dokoupil gushed over Hayhoe: “…she travels the country and has given thousands of lectures and had thousands of conversations with people about climate change and wakes people up to the issue.”
Gayle King, a fellow co-host noted: “But normally people’s eyes do glaze over, they do.”Dokoupil recognized: “Yeah, if you’ve got friends over for dinner and you bring it up, they’re like, ‘Oh, we’ve got a long drive, we better hit the road.’”Nate Burleson was the co-host. “People do see it as a buzz kill….Until it sinks in that we’re killing the Earth.”
Dokoupil added: “But that’s a buzz kill! It’s hard to talk about this with the appropriate degree of measuredness but also urgency.” He then concluded that a complete “system change” was needed: “And by the way, the reason this matters is because the political solution, a system change, is the only way to do this. All of us recycling and putting solar panels on our roof, that doesn’t add up to enough.”
Dokoupil isn’t the first person to go out preaching his left-wing beliefs to the people. Dokoupil used pies to spread socialism to mall-goers in January 2020. That year, he went on a walk through Connecticut asking passersby for their confessions of racism.
Liberal media hosts like Dokoupil just can’t understand why the public don’t listen to every word they say like it’s gospel – especially when it comes to the religion of climate change.
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The complete transcript for the October 5, segment is available here:
8.16 am ET
TONY DOKOUPIL: Here’s a mystery for you. While climate change has been a significant global problem, it’s not yet the most popular topic at dinner tables. According to new research, this may actually be the greatest threat. It’s called, Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing In A Divided World. It’s published by an imprint of Simon & Schuster, which is a division of ViacomCBS.
The scientist’s name is Katherine Hayhoe, she’s the author and she points out that more than half of U.S. adults are concerned about climate change but only a third of us ever talk about it. It is her aim to do something about it.
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Warming Up to Climate Talk; Expert Explains Why Discussing Issue Is Important First Step]
All this talk about extreme weather, caused by unsustainable global warming, and the endless warnings of scientists, may make you think…
GRETA THUNBERG : Dare you!
DOKOUPIL -…celebrities, world leaders…ANTONIO GUTERRES [U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL]Climate action is now essential.
DOKOUPIL: Do you want to talk about your home? However…
Do you ever talk about climate change often?
UNIDENTIFIED MAN a : Did we ever talk about climate change before? Perhaps once or twice during our seven-year marriage.
DOKOUPIL: On a recent day at the Dallas World Aquarium, we found most people just don’t usually get into it. Are you a person who has ever had a deliberate conversation with someone about climate change?
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN A: I’ll be honest, I probably haven’t.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN B: I haven’t either.
DOKOUPIL If climate change threatens all of us, shouldn’t all of us be talking about it?
KATHERINE HAYHOE – This worries most people.
DOKOUPIL Katherine Hayhoe at Texas Tech University is an eminent, perhaps famous, climatologist. This person studies the interaction between climate and society.
HAYHOE: If one more person tells you about a starving polar bear or a melting iceberg or rising sea levels, you’re just, “What am I supposed to do? I’m just one person. I’m not like the president or a CEO or anything.”
DOKOUPIL: What you’re supposed to do, Hayhoe argues, the most important thing any of us can do, is the one thing so many of us have been avoiding – we have to talk about it.
Are you convinced that regular citizens can make a difference by starting conversations within their local communities.
HAYHOE: I think that’s the only way a revolution has ever started.
DOKOUPIL – To find out how she does it, and not get into argument or politics, we had some conversation.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN C: For me, I feel like this world ain’t going to survive long.
DOKOUPIL: Alright, well, I’m going to bring in Katherine right now.
Then we asked Hayhoe for the job.
HAYHOE, Did you know 90 companies have contributed to two-thirds the global warming problem since the inception of the industrial revolution?
MAN C. I didn’t know that.
DOKOUPIL – We observed that Hayhoe is often full of facts…
HAYHOE : How many people are killed each year by air pollution every day?
Unidentified WOMAN B:
HAYHOE is almost 9 million.
WOMAN B: What is the truth?
DOKOUPIL: Her first move wasn’t to lecture but to listen.
MAN A: You see changes in weather patterns but they don’t happen as close to home.
DOKOUPIL: When she did jump in, it wasn’t with global data but local issues.
HAYHOE: Here’s the thing, if we live in Texas, we’re getting hit hardest of any state. The heat, floods and hurricanes are all part of our lives. The arctic heating has made it worse than the winter storm we experienced.
Irving: You know the Rangers. To cool it down, the Rangers had to construct a new stadium.
DOKOUPIL
HAYHOE – Texas ranks number one for wind energy. We’re number one.
DOKOUPIL – Reminding people, even when the obstacles seem overwhelming, that they are not…
WOMAN B: From my perspective, it doesn’t seem like much, you know, regular humans can really do about it.
DOKOUPIL
HAYHOE: You know, 150 years ago, women couldn’t vote. Then, 70 years later, civil rights were established. All of this change, how was it possible? People started to talk about it.
WOMAN B: That’s true.
HAYHOE : They started to say that this was not fair and this is not how the world should look. HAYHOE: The world must be different.
DOKOUPIL: And speaking of different –
You told me in our first conversation that I was basically doomed.
MAN C. It is.
HAYHOE: But what’s the first step of getting together?
MAN C. Talking about it.
DOKOUPIL – Has the conversation changed your life in any way?
WOMAN C: Yeah, I mean, I’d be more vocal to it and want to spread the awareness.
DOKOUPIL – You did it Katherine! There’s one!
Katherine is a multi-tasker. She has been all over the United States giving thousands of talks and having thousands of discussions with people about the topic of climate change. And actually, what I love about the book is it’s kind of a user’s guide to help other people go and do the very same thing.
DOKOUPIL: Although I also have to say, in my experience, when I started talking about climate change at home, that’s when my wife’s like, “eh.” Or you know, that’s when the friends are over –
GAYLE KING: But normally people’s eyes do glaze over, they do.
DOKOUPIL: Yeah, if you’ve got friends over for dinner and you bring it up, they’re like, “Oh, we’ve got a long drive, we better hit the road.”
NATE BURLESON – People see it as a buzzkill.
KING: Just.
BURLESON: Until it sinks in that we’re killing the Earth.
DOKOUPIL: But that’s a buzz kill! It’s hard to talk about this with the appropriate degree of measuredness but also urgency.
BURLESON: Yes.
KING (But I love how she does that, Tony. It’s very easy to digest and concrete.
DOKOUPIL: Yes.
The one thing we can all be more attentive to is KING. Nine million people die of air pollution, that’s a lot. That’s – we’ll never forget.
DOKOUPIL – This matters because the political solution to the problem, that is, system changes, are the only possible way. All of us recycling and putting solar panels on our roof, that doesn’t add up to enough.
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