Brief: RFK Jr Says the Devil Measures Carbon

“God talks to human beings through many vectors. But nowhere with such detail, and grace and joy, as through creation. When we destroy nature, we diminish our capacity to sense the divine.” With this April 2023 tweet, RFK Jr inaugurated his presidential campaign, which has now folded into a daily ritual of Trump bootlicking. Now, Bobby is telling Tucker Carlson and the world that climate change cannot be solved through commitment to the “carbon orthodoxy.” “It’s not about quantifying stuff,” he says. “That's what the devil does. But the reason we're preserving these things is because we love our children.” What does this mean? Matthew tracks the sources and implications of Kennedy’s broken climate discourse—rooted in St. Francis of Assisi, appealing to gentleman farmers and homeschoolers, allergic to the scientific abstractions that give us a truly global picture, and always committed to the free market.  Show Notes RFK Jr: Teaming up With Trump, Pavel Durov’s Arrest, CIA, and the Fall of the Democrat Party  Birdwatching with Jonathan Franzen: 'Climate change isn't the only danger to birds'  Special Interview: Nostalgia for the Superego (w/Sam Binkley) — Conspirituality  Laudato si' (24 May 2015) | Francis  Brian Swimme: The Cosmos Watching Itself (E35) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices