Posted on 03/26/2015 6:10:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Excerpted from Campus Reform: Speaking to students at the University at Albany, Bill Nye the Science Guy said that a carbon tax was needed for the purpose of redistributing wealth.
We need, dare I say it, a tax, or should I say a fee, Nye purportedly said Wednesday, right before an anonymous student began recording.
Its not just to be mean, its to redistribute wealth, Nye said.
Nye went on to claim that instituting such a tax would drive innovation in more environmentally friendly ways.
It will stimulate people investing in more energy efficient means. If you gotta pay a fee every time you make carbon monoxie and somone comes up with a more efficient car, youll use that car. Somebody comes up with a more efficient blender, youll use that blender. I mean, thats just how its going to go.
The free campus event distributed 1,000 copies of Nyes new book Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation to students in attendance. The lecture, part of an annual student-run speaker series, quickly became a pro-big government, higher taxes rally.
The trouble with this is, there are people now, in the U.S. government, who dont like government, Nye lectured.
The former television host and Disney actor then ranted about limited government conservatives, comparing them to a General Motors employee that wants to shut their own company down.
We have to get people who really want the government to do what its supposed to do, which is run things, Nye said.
Mechanical Engineering is not an easy major, or profession. I presume Bill Nye wasn't very good at it - which is why he took up the 'Bill Nye Science Clown' schtick - but I wouldn't denigrate Mechanical Engineers. This one just turned out to be an A-Hole.
Looks like Bill has decided to cash in on the enviro-kook movement, just like Gore. My memory tells me that Nye was off everyone’s radar for years. I don’t remember what brought him back, but I think he’s capitalizing on his renewed fame.
Bill Nye is a practitioner of what C.S. Lewis referred to as “scientism,” not science. In other words, he uses a buzzword, “science,” to dishonestly sell a political movement, socialism. There is no actual science involved, just an unproven assertion that his political goal is somehow supported by science. It is not.
And yet critics are accused of being paid off by big oil. Bill Nye is paid off by the idea of Big Government.
You may be thinking of FA Hayek rather than CS Lewis.
Friedrich Hayek wrote a great little book called “The Counter-Revolution of Science: studies in the abuse of reason”.
In it he describes what he calls ‘scientism’, a bastardized form of thought which imagines it uses the methodology of science in every sphere of knowledge. It can’t of course, and it runs into epistemological problems it can’t solve. Goedel’s Theorem and all that.
I wonder if Bill Nye, the worthless commie piece of crap guy, redistributed the $300,000 - $400,000 he received from his so-called dance moves on “Dancing With the Stars?”
Bill Nye need to learn about Urban Warming and start advocating to tear down liberal cities if he is so concerned...
First let’s take all of Bill Nye’s wealth and redistribute it. Then let’s ask him how that’s working for him.
It’s not a far leap to say that. We are methodology based problem solvers and use the scientific method in daily work. There’s also a lot of overlap in classes as math, chemistry, physics and in some cases biology.
Engineering to me is basically all about applied science.
Agreed.
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