On Wednesday’s edition of MSNBC’s The ReidOut, host Joy Reid closed the program by freaking out over the wildfires in Canada and suggested that U.S. oil consumption was to blame for so-called climate change and as a result the wildfires that have heavy smog blowing across the border into the United States.
“If you woke up this morning and your lungs were burning, you had a hard time breathing, or you looked up in the sky and felt as though you were in an apocalyptic doomsday movie, you were not alone,” Reid said, closing out her show.
“Right now, more than 400 wildfires are burning across Canada, which is experiencing its worst wildfire season in history. And that smoke is billowing its way all across the United States,” she added.
According to Reid, “these kinds of weather phenomena are happening all around the globe and it's only becoming more and more common, all because of climate change.”
She then parroted a leftist lie about a “climate catastrophe” and screeched that “many world leaders are still wary of any substantial climate action because of their unrelenting dependence on oil.”
Continuing to fearmonger about so-called “climate change,” Reid huffed: “As long as we stay addicted, they will not only get richer and gobble up more and more of our industries and our culture, we will suffer the consequences, as the planet we live on, and that our children and grandchildren will inherit, becomes even more dangerous to live in.”
“You’d think it’d be a priority to keep breathing,” she sneered.
She failed to explain how using oil to fuel our industrial economy contributes to wildfires. There have been wildfires for thousands of years, long before oil and other fossil fuels came into widespread use.
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The transcript is below:
MSNBC’s The ReidOut
6/7/2023
7:58:17 p.m. EasternJOY REID: If you woke up this morning and your lungs were burning, you had a hard time breathing, or you looked up in the sky and felt as though you were in an apocalyptic doomsday movie, you were not alone. Right now, more than 400 wildfires are burning across Canada, which is experiencing its worst wildfire season in history. And that smoke is billowing its way all across the United States. Today, around 98 million people across 18 states from New Hampshire all the way to South Carolina were under air quality alerts. Including New York City, which earlier today, had the worst air quality in the world. The air was so bad, officials in the affected areas are urging people to stay inside, not partake in any outdoor activity, and start wearing N95 masks again.
These kinds of weather phenomena are happening all around the globe and it's only becoming more and more common, all because of climate change. And even as we barrel towards a climate catastrophe, many world leaders are still wary of any substantial climate action because of their unrelenting dependence on oil. And among the world's top oil suppliers is Canada, as well as the U.S. And, of course, there’s Saudi Arabia. Their massive oil supply has made them one of the richest nations in the world. The Saudis are so rich off oil, they're actually buying up parts of the U.S., buildings, businesses, and now apparently golf. As the PGA just announced their merger with Saudi Arabia's LIV golf franchise.
All of this, despite the fact that their government played a role in funding the September 11th terrorist attacks, as well as brutally murdering Washington Post journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, and hacking up his body with a bone saw. These are the people who are eating off our addiction to oil. And as long as we stay addicted, they will not only get richer and gobble up more and more of our industries and our culture, we will suffer the consequences, as the planet we live on, and that our children and grandchildren will inherit, becomes even more dangerous to live in. You’d think it’d be a priority to keep breathing.
