Speaker 2
We see it all the time in political debatess if the electorate doesn't the population has no idea what regulations are there and what aren't there, all they hear are political slokens en. Democrats will say, well, i mean, i'm actually for protecting the environment. They just don't want to protect it at all, you know, as if fe're arguing from from year zero, like werthers. We know it's a blank slate of regulations. That's that somewhat sort of the point they're making. And they're like, we just want to protect the environment a little bit. And you're like, and it's, it takes time, and it's difficult to explain to a population of voters that there's already tons and tons of regulations. And it does not therefore mean that more is better. There's there's no evidence that more would be better in this case. And thats, i just, it's a nuanced argument. It gets down intho details, and people do not have the attention span for it. And so it becomes this sort of, like, this, this sort of false choice between protecting the environment and not protecting the environment. And that's just, that's not what we're saying at all. What we're saying is you need balance. And again, just because one regulation is good doesn't mean that ten more is better. The precautionary principle, which is like, you you shouldn't move forward with anything until you can guarantee safety. Well, you'll just suffocate yourself t i can keep yo perfectly safe, and i'll just put you in a prison cell and you will be safe forever. I but that's not exactly a purposeful life,
Speaker 1
im y. And this is, once again, where innovation comes into and why innovation is so important. Look, israel has practically no fresh water resources. It's recycling something like 92 % of its of its water. But it it's an exporte of water to surrounding arab countries. How does that happen? Well, partly it's because of this salination. What is this salination? The world is covered, 75 % of the world is covered by water. It's just the wrong kind of water, right? It's we need to turn ocean water into fresh water. How do we do it? Through this salination. This salination a product of the human mind. Especially if you can run tissalination plants by by nuclear power, or maybe even solid because you are in the middle east where it is the lor of sun, you have a perfect solution to the problem of water shortage. Is agriculture in america using too much water, for example? Again, innovation can come and help you nowadays. With smart or precision agriculture, you can, you can put a micro chip on every plant, or on every tree, which tells you exactly how much water it needs. And when that's a solution, that's a human brain at work in order to produce an environmentally sound environmentally, thatis a decision. So it's its its human mind at work to deliver something where you are meeting your environmental galls, whilst at the same time ar providing people with what they need. So it is possible. It's possible to combine care for the environment with human flourishing through the agency of human innovation, if that innovation is not stifled by a, by an overpowering, suffocating bureaucracy.