As a zoomer, I appreciate this message. It’s so easy to think “we’re better because…” but people are people. My generation’s just revolutionized excuses.
It's nice to read this somehow! I am a young man. My childhood was in the 90's so I am not a guy from Generation Z. But there are so many hypocritical people in this Generation Z. As well as in all generations before. There are actually a lot of things that many of them don't get when it comes to environmental protection. And in fact do horribly wrong. But think they are holy angels and are right with everything.
@@Warlikerooster03 Being raised with zero values, zero critical thinking skills and incredibly high self-esteem. Oh wait, did I say "raised"? These kids weren't raised at all. They grew up in single parent households and/or households where both parents worked. They went to shit schools where they were taught to obey authority unquestioningly. Their parents never spent any time teaching them about life and they didn't even have church to fall back on as a way of teaching them basic values. The blame is on all of us. And the responsibility to fix it is on all of us.
Bill has been absolutely ON it! I've always appreciated his humor even if we share different political views. Lately, his calling BS on hypocrisy has reached legendary level.
He's very right about some things, funny a lot, but constantly saying BS stuff, too. And I find him to be hypocritical since he complains about ageism and then attacks millennials and young people regularly. Ageism goes both ways.
@@swampsprite9 If we all just CORRECT what we agreed that were wrong & fix it and worry less or ignore what others didn't get it right, EVENTUALLY, everybody will get it right. People are so emphasized on what others did wrong argument comparing to what others said that was right & then somewhere along the line lost the urgency to correct the wrong as they are too busy finding what's wrong about others.
He is wrong on most things politically and I don't know how much of his humor should be credited to his writers, but I applaud him for allowing opposite opinions and views to be heard on his show, his questioning of popular liberal beliefs, and for exposing so many on the left for the hypocrites that they really are. He is genuinely funny, unless it's his writers.
Just started following Bill Maher recently. I'm a fairly traditional conservative and had always viewed him as pretty liberal, which he is. But I value truth, honesty and common sense over anything and it takes a certain amount of curiosity and effort to discover what the truth about anything really is. Without that effort, I could so easily be a fool and never know it. I hope we all want the same thing...a better world, right? Putting our swords down and being honest about issues can be the bridge between conservatism and liberalism. I admire Bill Maher for being that type of person, and am extremely thankful that he has the platform he does.
At 68 years-old I remain unaffiliated with any political party and I've been a critical thinker my entire life but I've found that today we have a lie detector freely available to all of us on the public air waves.... ...Whatever Donald Trump says, you can bet the opposite is true.
I don't always agree with Bill, Greta, or Anyone ! But Bill is Lame for attacking Greta for being less popular that Hollywood ! He's totally WEAK for telling her to STFU.
No, we're rational. Sacrificing so much wealth is stupid, especially for uncertain climate outcomes. Further, if the natural catastrophes do arrive, rich countries are best equipped to handle them by investing in more resilient infrastructure. Wealth is always the best protector, both at an individual level and at a country level.
Who is Bill talking about? My grown kids are nothing like the media portrays. So normal and healthy and interesting. Greta and Kylie both started life with trust funds. Who cares? How can you fail??!!? I love trust funds. Every parent should have one for their kids. So smart.
@@nonmagicmike723thinking we are separate from the natural world is the problem. We are supported by it and have been depleting beyond carrying capacity for decades. It will soon come crashing down. Look up Jevon’s paradox. Tech won’t save us, it might perhaps increase our capacity for pollution and consumption temporarily though.
@@elliot1850 Sure thing. What you say would be more convincing if I hadn't been hearing since the day I was born and even before. See: overpopulation scare of the 1960s.
Bill, I'm glad you're back to playing the middle game in no man's land. You're great at what you do, and I'm glad you're back to not 'picking sides' as it were. No one is safe from the truth and comedy.
So I love Bill Maher. He brings some common sense to the room.. usually. Although, I feel like this Climate Change alarm-ism is bull shit. The Left cares about the environment, yeah? Yet the USA is the best, and CLEANEST extractor of crude oil.. Yet, here the Left is.. restricting the crap out of American Oil.. to the point that we have to buy oil from other countries. Which for One: Makes other countries rich, instead of domestic companies. For Two: Now they have transport(likely by diesel trucks) the crude oil to the port, which then gets pumped into a tanker ship. That tanker ship now has to travel, by sea to bring it to us so we can refine it. So a tanker ship is said to burn 2,400 GALLONS of diesel per HOUR. It would take 21-35 days to travel to the US from Russia, dependent on weather. So you're going to tell me that an Oil Tanker having to deal with rough seas somewhere along the journey is safer than a welded pipeline? Watch the videos I linked to see how bad it can get. The stress on the hull of that ship is enormous. It's amazing we don't have more tanker spills in the ocean. But anyways, buying oil from your neighbor is way better for OUR economy, and for our environment. Less fossil fuels are burnt to get the crude oil here. ua-cam.com/video/pquLkpCVMSM/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/oezB2M5dqQ8/v-deo.html
I Smh when San Francisco banned plastic straws and I saw plastic syringes and all over the ground. Bring your bag to shop and non disposable masks on the ground.
On the subject of plastic, don't plastic bags do less damage to mother Gaia ("The 7 Blessings of Science upon her forever awomxn") than cloth bags (like, 300-times-less-pollution). Just saying, maybe George Carlin had a point when he jested that our species entire purpose was to make more plastic for Gaia ("The 7 Blessings of Science upon her forever awomxn")
@@Misses-Hippy it has looked like a big rock at least 5 times before only to have explosions of life follow. Ebb and flow. Feast and famine. Up down black white ying yang. It is the cyclical nature of biological existence. The best part of this Carlin rant was the point about our hubris. We think that we are the only reason the earth would change. It has to be us and not the geologically and archeologically established cycle of greenhouse / ice ages. We always try to separate ourselves from nature, but we are just as much a part of it as anything else. That said, there are many things we could be doing better. For starters: Cities are, ecologically speaking, a joke. If you aren't personally involved in the farming/raising/gathering/hunting/composting of your own food you are part of the problem. (I just ate fast food and I don't have a garden, so I'm totally guilty as anyone)
@@bolo2393 I had my mother in mind (and she had right-wing radio in mind) when I wrote that. She was discounting climate change arguing the planet would survive of course. I said, Yes, but it might look like Mars. Thank you for your optimism. Maybe even Mars will flourish with time. But I would still be concerned about climate change happening now on this planet. Bonjour, from France!
"People say, 'Oh, we have to save the planet by not putting plastic bags into the landfills' but that doesn't do anything, that doesn't go far enough. We have to change OURSELVES! And we'll never do THAT, because everyone's too fat and happy, everyone has a cell phone that will make pancakes and rub their , so no one wants to rock the boat, no one wants to change anything. So we're slowly circling the drain, and the circles get smaller, and the circles get faster . . . . " -George Carlin
As Glenn Reynolds said about 15 years ago concerning climate change; “ I’ll believe there’s a crises when the people that tell me there’s a crises behave like there is one.”
Well, there are people telling us it’s a crisis who behave like it. It’s just not everybody. Also, that’s not really a great rule. Many people know smoking, drinking, or overeating is bad for them but still do it; the same can go for issues about the world. One should believe there’s a crisis if the evidence suggests it, and the evidence is very unequivocal.
@@theonionpirate1076 Believing and acting are two separate things. Many people know that pigging out on luxury and convenience is bad for the environment but they still do it. I think Woody's point is that there is a huge double standard between how people talk about the climate crisis and how they adjust their behaviours accordingly. Also, as a final word, if you believe what you said about the evidence being unequivocal, you should be talking to the people who engage in excesses mentioned by Bill in the video yet at the same time proclaim they are concerned with the environment. Make sure they correct their double standard.
Young people's attitude is usually much better than the fat old overindulgent rich people - WHO HAVE ALL THE POWER TO CHANGE THINGS, AND DON'T! And I'm fairly comfortably off, and 73.
I think as the left has gotten more preposterous, he's started calling them out more. Not that's a chargers conservative by any stretch, but he had stopped blindly touting liberal talking points.
Yeah, what a shame he is right only when polls tell him what majority thinks... so he is usually a 12-18 months behind the curve, this much he needs to "wake up" to the reality while bashing along the way people that he agrees with 12-18months later.
Great to see someone calling out the glaring hypocrisy and hubris of yet another generation that blames, whines, and takes the moral high ground yet sinks in the valley of anger, confusion and BS.
Bill Maher 100 %.. yet will turn around and support the same Democrat Socialist politicians back into government payrolls.. The same politicians that push PC POLITICS of Climate Change, Carbon Credits and politicians that support blm, antifa arsonists street gangs.. Bill Maher, two face back stabbing Democrats Socialist supporter.. Yet funny comedian..
As a Zoomer, this was one of my favorite new rules he's ever done. I will never understand how people can recognize that climate change is an issue without recognizing the social responsibility that comes with solving it.
Passing the responsibility into individuals to solve this problem plays right into the hands of the corporations making billions off destroying the environment. We will only solve this problem from the top down.
@@miltongreene1889 it's a chicken or the egg situation. The corporations behave this way because the consumers demand it. The truth is we are doomed. Everyone will blame everyone while the earth rots so enjoy the time you have and try to make some new friends :)
It's hubris to think the planet needs us or gives two craps about us. Earth was trucking along happily making extinct 99% of all species that has ever lived and it will keep trucking along just fine after we're extinct. We are but a minor inconvenience to this planet.
Wow! I am impressed with Bill Maher. Never expected to hear this out of him. I may actually start watching him more. A true comedian is one that is comfortable enough to pick on everyone equally and truthfully. To point out the hypocrisies within Society. I actually loved what he had to say it was spot-on. That is the only way to get to the truth!💙🇺🇲
Same. I always heard of him as a leftist propaganda parrot, but he was handing their asses right back to them. I won't be surprised when he's condemned as "sexist" for not tapping his forehead onto the ground when he spoke of a Kardashian. Or the accusations come up.
Then you may want to revisit his previous recordings over the past 3 decades since he is a staunch political commentator as well as comedian, actor, writer, producer as with other accomplishments. Although he is a liberal with left-leaning tendencies, I find him more open to honest political discussions with those that may oppose his view than others on his side of the Aisle. I particularly like the interview he has done with Ben Shapiro since they both back their arguments up with actual facts.
they admit that his gen dropped the ball on the environment, but they seem in complete denial that they dropped the ball on parenting. They created this shitty society that exploits the psychology of the youth for financial gain and he actually has the nerve to act like the youth are the problem. Thank god you all die one day, no matter how much money you have.
I'm 0:45 into the video and I already agree totally with Bill. All talk and no action. But talk is still VERY DANGEROUS. Mathieu, you and Greta Thunberg can have my luxury apartment and my 2022 CHEVROLET SILVERADO CUSTOM TRAIL BOSS when you pry the keys from my cold lifeless fingers...and possibly not even then.
Not really. I either couldn't care less about, or actively dislike, Bitcoin and the celebrities he mentioned. It isn't cognitive dissonance when the Zoomers who are into Bitcoin and Kylie Jenner are separate people than the Zoomers who are concerned about the environment.
Ya, gunna have to give this segment a big thumb down. Comparing a cell phone, a microscopically small and highly energy effecient device that's basically the only creature comfort most millenials and gen z have and trying to make that sound equivalent to corporations that are responsible for 70% of all carbon emissions and billionaires living in climate controlled fortresses and flying around in their own private jet to shopping trips to buy 1000000 items of designer clothing is the biggest bullshit line I have ever heard in my life. Bill Maher should shut the fuck up and retire.
@@Sanosukeafo True enough, though internet platforms like Twitter and online news formats etc are a big reason for things such as Donald Trump becoming US President, and the internet now is THE major distraction in the world from facing reality, actual society and making an effort to change for good. Of course there are big players in business (in bed with political parties) etc which are deeply corrupt but they all use this drug called the internet and smart devices to increase and maintain their power, and most of us are utterly complicit in this technological takeover of people's brains. Even my typing this now is a complete waste of time. Another empty comment that'll vanish into the online comments void - words that nobody will ever even consider seriously and at best only be skim-read by those desperate to have an argument or something to make them feel alive.
Honestly, any climate plan that consists of “People should individually choice to be conscientious consumers” is doomed to miserable failure. And trying to shame people into being conscientious won’t work either. It’ll just make them resent you. The real answer is that you let people consume what they want…you just make them pay the actual costs of their consumption. I promise you that if you simply implemented a carbon tax, you could reduce emissions by increasing prices. This would both decrease demand for such goods and services and incentivize efforts to make them less carbon-intensive.
Wow you really hit it on the nail with this younger generation. I've noticed the same thing. They sit on the ferry dock with their cars running so they can play with their phones. On a black tarmac that's hotter than hell their windows are rolled up and they have the air conditioning on. While the rest of us breathe in their toxic fumes and do our best to stay cool. They think nothing of cutting in line ahead of others who have been sitting there for ever sometimes. There are natural born narcissists
Not natural born. We made them through shitty parenting and raising them through social media and removing any risk that would make them self reflecting, resilient humans.
All kids forever have been narcissists. That's how kids figure out who they are and how to communicate. By making themselves the center of their own world.
Hypocrites can’t even reduce drinking coke in plastic bottles, or even force coke to go back to glass packaging. They will however force Netflix to fire Chappelle for not sharing their views.
@@kevyxcx5829 As bringing a cloth bag shopping was brought up in this clip I have to throw this out there: The carbon footprint of 1 poly/cotton blend bag is as much as 20,000 times worse than a plastic bag (Danish Governmental Report). So, since the average person goes shopping 2 times per week, do you think the average person is going to use a cloth bag for 200 years?
It's really nice to see that there is no blind spot when it come political affiliation as far as Bill is concerned. I really appreciate that. I wish more people would follow his example here.
It's the same reason why the first countries and states to fight slavery were the ones that stopped being economically dependent on it: most people only do the right thing when it's easy 😔
It wasn't easy to fight against slavery, it was also expensive, the British were still paying for it up untill 2015 , they also lost a lot of lives enforcing it
So the Civil War, fighting against your real life brothers was easy. The fight against slavery caused a 4 year long Civil War. The price was immense. It also cost the president his life. Wtf makes you think any part of it was easy for blacks and whites? Change never happens when its easy. It happens when it needs to happen.
Wellllllll. the salt water inside em is biodegradeable, right? I mean they fill em with Saline right? Thats salt water. So when the hot chick dies that water'll jus pour on out, no harm no foul. And the plastic parts just a tiny percentage of it, right? And lets face it, those things make everyone soooooooooooo happy!!
@@diegopons4622 None of them speak collectively. He's literally ignoring the fact that the loudest voices this day, and in the past, have been that of a minority of people. He hates cancel culture, but fails to realize the same people who use it are the same people who are fans of the worst people in the world.
I’m a teacher. What’s really disgusting; step in a elementary/junior or high school students and ask them what they want to be when they grow up? INFLUENCERS. 99.9% answer like this. It just makes me ill.
Bill Buckley would be proud of you. you are a real conservative - someone who respects other opinions and can argue a point, not call out meaningless memes! and that goes for both sides!! Keep safe. :) 🌷🌱
I really appreciate that. I'm the opposite - I'm a moderate leftist and there are a few conservative channels I listen to regularly on UA-cam. I don't always agree with them, but often I do. I think I have far more in common with centrists conservatives than I do with extreme leftists.
@@feralbluee Mainstream media makes it seem liberals and conservatives are more divided than we actually are. I'm an anti-capitalist, feminist, and left winger but I believe (along with many silenced lefties) that trans women are not women, men and women's brains are wired differently, anyone can be racist, cultural appropriation isn't always a bad thing, serious criminals should never be released, very late term abortion is murder, white men/white people are trashed too much by the left, and many liberals are dogmatic, narrow minded bullies. And society needs to stop ignoring black male crime especially since black women and children are the most affected. The thing is, certain politically incorrect beliefs aren't allowed in "left wing" media and only conservatives can say them outloud. That's why we need to talk with EACH OTHER more, you can't trust the media.
@@swampsprite9 interesting thoughts. would make for good discussions. i no longer identify with ‘the left’ . they are dogmatically, creating divisions in our culture (as the far right does), and teaching little children that they’re racists because they’re white, is so totally and absolutely morally disgusting and nasty; it’s just atrocious. are they teaching Afroamerican 5 y.olds that white people hate them? god knows what the ef they’re doing. that’s not how we thought in the ‘60’s, ‘70’s, and ‘80’s.
✨💎 Excellent point. TY for putting it in its much larger (& appropriate) perspective. Wish I had 100 or 1,000 likes for this one. One "like" just isn't enough
As a 32-year-old, I've been saying this for a long time. Of course, when I do say it, I always get told "ok boomer" by obnoxious kids who think they know it all and are better than everyone born before them. Youthful ignorance is a perpetual reality, no matter how much current young people think they're the first exception.
As a 40 year old with actual Boomer parents Im still coming to terms with the disappointment that my generation isn't actually any good at saving the world either.
I mean we watched that video in school in the 90s with the Rainforest Rap in it and everything. "All the beauty.. in the rainforest.. the tropical rainforest.."
All young folks (including myself) have had a hatred for the older generation. I'm 66 now, and see the following generations doing the same, yes. But rare are the few that say " I will do something sincere". And they actually mean it. They do not blame or accuse. They work hard in a political stance or a public stance to effect a change that will be meaningful to the public. This is how things are accomplished. You point a finger at my chest and call me a name rest assured you ain't got my attention. I'm glad you realize this M.S. Keep passing this message.
Great talk. The latest generations are certainly no better than older ones, though they open their big mouths with all talk and no action. Thanks, Bill, for pointing it out.
Thats why so many young people go vegan you know? They take no action! 18-19 year old: 7% is vegan 60-64 year old: 1% is vegan 7x times increase but they take no action!
Mmm you got a point but none talk more than older generations like you blaming the young folk. You are now the old guy yelling at the kids for throwing balls over your fence. I know it was long time ago but remember when you were the kid
Great rant. You could hear the audience hesitation and feel their conviction burning in themselves. It's actually quite sad when Bill Maher does more to convict the heart than modern Christians churches who are too afraid of potentially offending people.
He is a good comedian but he has tu educate himself on stuff like Bitcoin . Most of the thing he said about Bitcoin is simply wrong but he is so confident about it !
@@olemo7806 well yeah, he absolutely was wrong. It's typical for Bitcoin to be conflated as 'all of crypto' by those who know no better - the truth is that there are numerous cryptos that have figured out how to minimize their energy usage on a transactional basis - ADA, ALGO, XRP, etc. Bitcoin is the main mover because it was first. But most of the other cryptos are working towards energy friendly solutions for their computations and transactions, so he really is off base here.
@@Powercise1 yeah, SOME younger people do that. MOST of them consume way more energy, resources and fall to consumerism way easier and deeper than older people. That was the point. Btw, has the bitcoin thing really been objectibly and reliably debunked? Honest question.
As a Millennial, I agree with this premise. How often do the majority in my generation and younger resort to virtue signaling while doing nothing about the problems they're supposedly raising awareness to? It's far too often. We can get the terrible cost of NFTs to trend on Twitter, but we can't really stop artists or buyers in our generation, we don't make a collective push to call our senators and congressman, we don't take up picket signs. We just retweet and then go on to check out the newest makeup line while ignoring the child labor used to get mica. There are good people in all generations who are subjected to the bullshittery of their peers. You know if you're one of them based on this segment. Boomers won't be around forever for us to blame our problems on.
You just found out it's all virtual signalling? welcome to reality :). Even the world leaders are flying jets. You and I are here on our computers. I just wonder if you some of you even understand what you are asking for seriously.
@@tivmego ah, I never said I just learned this. I agree with Bill Maher and I appreciate the ways in which he illustrates it. There's even more on the side when you're in the trenches, as I'm pointing out. Some things have to start as a will, yes, but our propensity to blame others is really a big Achilles heel. Blame won't solve any problems now. Stop talking about who's the problem and start talking about the solutions, right?
@@tivmego The fact is, what anyone does individually doesn't make a difference. Simply put, energy consumption needs to be curtailed by taxing energy consumption instead of income. Drinking coffee out of reusable cups instead of paper cups does nothing.
@@RWAsur I am a disciple of doing what I believe. If you believe the world is coming to an end, could you stop using the computer and relocate to some isolated forest where energy is not consumed? Until those who believe this whole climate prophesy adhere to what they preach, no one will take you guys seriously. That is what Bill is saying. Until you practice what you preach, it is mere virtual signalling.
@@soulscanner66 And who will tell you to get off your phones and computer? Don't you have these tech gadgets? Have you discarded your computer and phone?
As a zoomer, this message really helped me realize how we have a choice we can make and we need to make the right choice. Just kidding, I'm not a zoomer. This is the internet, everything is inauthentic BS and we waste our time gobbling up "content". Social media is a plague.
They are talking about gen z no one cares about making fun of us anymore. We have to wait until gen z's kids think harry potter is cool again and then we will clash over whatever new thing they're doing.
@@DoggoWillink Crazy to think how the oldest of this cohort is now entering their 40s when it seems like just yesterday that they were apart of OWS and acting like a bunch of spoiled teens.
@Puma Man I guess you are just jealous and bored so you are making "smart" comments like that... a nobody who had achieved nothing in his/her entire life
@Janus Zeal Of course it's a generalization. So what? People must often use generalizations when communicating. You cannot include every except and every detail in every conversation. Generalizations are useful and exist for a reason.
Janus Zeal or you could flip it around and say that the same people that are pro abortion want to spare the life of a mass murder or sex offenders. Or call Trump xenophobic while praising their God Obama who bragged about being deporter in chief
Janus Zeal someone is triggered! I lean left on somethings and right on others and libertarian on others. I think that Bill, on this clip, was talking about people who are so self righteous but don’t practice what they preach
Bill Maher: "if you care about the environment don't own a phone!" Also Bill Maher: "if you care about the environment then why aren't you following Greta Thunberg on Twitter?!"
@@climatedeniersbelonginasyl4191 Nah that's not what he is saying. Those are two different point. He's saying Gen Z claim to be woke in words, but when it comes time for taking action, their consumption is as bad for the planet as any other generation
@@KyleC1990 Bingo They really don't do much in the way of action. But hey, they said some witty aphorism and now have more likes/followers/subscribers/retweets/etc and that's like super important!
Really? Was it the part where he used ONE video of MR beast giving someone 40 cars? But left out that he had 20 million trees planted last year and is raising money to have 30 million pounds of trash removed from the ocean? Sure it's easy to nail things if you Cherry Pick the things that make people look bad and leave out the accomplishments that completely refute the idea. Master Carpenter indeed.
Because he shifted the blame off your lethargic boomer ass onto the generation you raised by equating an Instagram follow with a disinterest in saving the environment? Yeah, what a brilliant take. Clearly teenagers and 20-somethings hold all the power in society and the rest can just look to their leadership.
@@pancakemogul yeah keep refusing to take any responsibility I'm sure that will work out well for you. You also seemed to ignore the facts he pushed out for you.
@@hauntedhouse7827 What power do you imagine 20-somethings and teenagers, i.e. KJ's followers, have in this society? Inflated college debt, inflated housing prices, inflated prices on medicine and healthcare and deflated wages - all obstacles that Bill's generation didn't encounter. Sure, if millennials and zoomers have anything, it's a surplus of time and resources.
@Oh My Oh my , its nothing but a tax scam. that's what climate change is about. if gasoline use is gonna end the world in 12 years as AOC claimed, the government would have banned it by now and the public would be riding horses buggies and bikes. taxing people for using gasoline because the climate changed a degree or two in a hundred year study when the earth is billions of years old is just nothing but a money making scheme by the government using media to scare people into voting for more taxes for a made up problem.
Bill Maher: "if you care about the environment don't own a phone!" Also Bill Maher: "if you care about the environment then why aren't you following Greta Thunberg on Twitter?!"
As an older millennial, I've been saying this for a while. I see lots of talk from the current generations and no action. I'll see someone that talks about saving the world all while they are the first person to turn the AC on in their house....or they'll need a new car every few years while ignoring that 60 years ago, if you got a new car, it was a huge deal in the neighborhood. I see the same ppl making sure they get their drive every day which contains plastic instead of bringing coffee from home in a reusable cup. I just see a lot of hypocrisy.
Haha pretty much spot on. They come off like politicians just getting riled up and talking about hot button issues and never really carrying out action like you said and making actual positive progress.
But it's the oil, gas, and car companies AND the military that are the actual problem. Spending time on your phone or turning on the AC or using a plastic straw is not the problem.
@@jaydon3292 And the clothing companies and the agricultural industry, but who is driving that demand? If people didn't buy a new car every 5 years. If people didn't buy a new wardrobe every 6 months. If people didn't eat ultra-processed, animal-based restaurant food twice a day. There's only so much blame that can be placed on the big bad corporations when they're primarily acting in response to consumer demand. Military is different, but everything else is ultimately driven by consumers. What it comes down to is that when given a choice, almost everyone will pick cheap and convenient over expensive and environmentally-friendly.
...but that plastic cup already exists. What's the difference between the person throwing it out or the company throwing it out? Buying it won't make a difference if it's going to be there regardless.
This is so great. It didn't championed one generation over the other. This piece showed that humanity is indeed repeating its mistake generation over generation We all do the same shit but with a different coat of paint
He’s talking about the US. You can leave the rest of humanity out of it la. We’re not party to your particular brands of Gen anything. Those indoctrinated by your decades of cultural colonialism is Murica’s fault n’all. That includes all your boxes.
@@Elephantstonica sorry la uncle 🤣 I'm also not American but definitely can see the funny side of both generations talking shit to each other while both are also being a hypocrite. Everyone can be an a-hole and everyone can also be a good person. Age/generations doesn't factor that much
Bill, it's never a good idea to generalize any group of people. Btw, plenty of people over 30 are surgically attached to their phones, especially blue check marks!
Cant believe I'm subscribing to bill maher. Hes waking up to some reality and is spking out using his platform. Keep it up bill. Hes figuring out the hypocrisy in the world
As a 60 year old male conservative (probably have offered 1/2 the Liberals already) I have to constantly remind and show my 20 + year old daughter's how to recycle. Yes I'm the problem?
Lots of people have said it, they don't just have a career as a comedian with their own TV show and UA-cam platform. Which is also something that bugs me about Greta Thunberg a little, she's hardly the only child to ever have strong ideas about the environment. She's just one that made the news and that gets a certain ball rolling which allows her to become a more effective activist.
@Get Zappéd 1974 Religion has very little, if anything, to do with climate change lol. Human stupidity would still exist without religion. It's just that nowadays, we worship different gods lol
Both women are lost, and their only fruit is fear, doubt and worry. One wears it on her sleeve. The other actively teaches their is no God who sustains the world by His word. And who made the Earth by His word as well. God will judge both for their works just like all of us. But Kylie doesn't go around telling people the earth is going to vanish in 7 years. A self proclaimed guru Greta purports. So both have their part in swaying women and teens to live the world ideology. One actively says their is no God. Jesus said, if you don't keep the commandments of God and teach others to do the same you will be the least in the kingdom of heaven. Let that sink in for a second.
Bill's touching on something I think about a lot: the millennial and gen z generations poll as hating capitalism, but what they should really hate (or do and don't realize it) is consumerism.
@@bobbafett1849 it’s really not. As long as people care more about their cars than their neighbors, every system will be comparably harmful. Materialism and poor prioritization is the problem, not capitalism.
Capitalism is only successful with consumerism. It cant thrive without it. Greed destroys. Socialism is the best option. It isnt a dirty word or an insult. Not all industries need be heavily regulated. But guess what? If the top 1-10% owned 90-99% of the food, people would not be so enamored with capitalism. Capitalism is chaos. Capitalism allows greedy and selfish assholes to flourish at our expense. You want freedom? Guess what someone will be free to buy/take control of everything. Then mark it up, or make you beg or just enslave everyone. Unchecked freedom is how assholes take control. There has to be checks and balances and rules. That is socialism
@@dhutch71 I’m simply saying that, of all the Bill Maher monologues that get promoted or get recommended, I feel this one is better than 90% of them. At any rate, my comment was complimentary. So, I’m not sure what the problem is.
@@chrissullivan4496 Everyone is uneducated. Watch the 1942 USDA film, *Hemp For Victory.* There's an official government link to the video. See for yourself why this doesn't get taught in history classes, even in college.
Bill Maher: "if you care about the environment don't own a phone!" Also Bill Maher: "if you care about the environment then why aren't you following Greta Thunberg on Twitter?!"
@@JustLikeGreta Just so you know, Insults are not facts. I will be waiting for those facts that you talked about.... If you're going to use insults again, I will conclude you have no facts, just your feelings...
@@Powercise1 and Mr beast is giving away his wealth. While he did team trees and is now doing team seas. It’s almost like his writers are trying to make bill look stupid. I’m 42, but Mr. Beast is a role model for my daughters. Bill has so gone right wing. He’s a shell of the liberal he use to be.
This is why I can be so stupid, yet brilliant: because I'm informed by Bill Maher in insightful posts such as this. Thanks, Bill. I don't like your politics, but I do like your moxy. I agree with the comment of J Freed below...
I love when Bill gets on a subject that the audience thinks is true and funny but they are part of the problem and hesitant to laugh, because they know that THEY ARE THE PROBLEM …
@@kevinedwards6093 Has a lot to do with being human and not being able to carry the weight of every virtue signal we make. Survival and the Angst & Suffering of living also places us in moral dilemmas where we don't always make the right choice. Doing the greater good versus self preservation is definitely not instinctual. The "They/We" dynamic that the above commenter made pretty much summarizes how we pass the buck and look at others as the problem, which causes paralysis. I tried going the martyr route and doing greater good and got nothing but suffering and condemnation for it, in very rare cases will you be celebrated as the hero or appreciated, I don't even know of it's worth the effort at this point. Sacrificing for others is a lonely endeavor...
The truth is hard to swallow: and this is all true. Maher does an excellent job of condensing hard hitting facts into 7 minutes of consumable content. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
He's full of shit. His generation voted Biden into office, young people voted for Bernie. That shows the larger picture. Can't blame the young for growing up in a world their PARENTS created.
@Rose-Marie Bothi There's zero truth to what you said. The youth voted for Bernie Sanders in the millions. Old Dems largely voted for Biden, who cares about climate change as much as a wolf cares about sheep. So, the youth WANTED to change on a mass scale, the boomer Dems did NOT. They actively said NO to climate policy with their votes in the primary. Twice. So Bill nor anyone else has a right to complain about the youth when they STOPPED the youth from acting. Fuck off.
"She built a massive empire without releasing a sex tape." Yeah.....but we all know she'd never have been in that position if that sex tape wasn't released...so technically, she's part of it.
Nice insight. So yeah,when people make money off of negativity that money has an energy associated with it. And she is definitely part is that whole negative energy if you ask me. Super Yuck!
Goes further back, to OJ killing 2 people and Mr. Kardashian helping him get away with it. If that hadn't happened, Paris Hilton would have remained the most famous reality star and Kim Kardashian would have never been known.
The boomers were hippies... Yuppies were Gen X. Beatniks were silent generation. Hipsters are millennials. I don't know what zoomers will be. Dying of starvation I guess.
@@-umph No they're right yuppies were boomers that bought into consumerism big time especially in the 80's. Gen X is only really know for three things: Alternative rock, cynicism, and being forgotten. Millennials are know for being entitled, Zoomers are pretty much like millennials only even more plugged-into social media with even shorter attention spans.
@@MattLovesVinyl 100% correct. Boomers are the Baby-Boomers. The soon to be or already are Elderly. Gen -X are the husk of what was supposed to be middle class that lived with "duck and cover" instructional videos.
@Censorship Is always wrong "all talk" yea because I'm in a position of power (ceo of big corporation, government, influencer, etc) to make the necessary changes? Your comment is so irrelevant that I almost didn't bother replying, almost. Do you know who is in a position to influence people? Bill is and he's choosen the fallacy of whataboutism to pile blame onto a generation that hasn't even taken the reins from the older generation yet. Wait until they're leading countries (in about a decade) then pass judgement. Right now all bill is doing is pointing the finger at the least responsible generation for global warming as if its all their fault when the opposite is true.
Mainstream media should be bombarding us that zoomers (aged 9-24) are hypocritical teenagers who follow pop stars and celebrities? Here's some facts Bill didn't mention. Forbes reported last year that the average Crypto buyer is 38 (a millennial, 25-40) with an annual salary of $130K/year. 30% of crypto owners are Gen X. On top of that, only 15% of U.S. consumers in total hold Crypto. Imagine how small of a percent of the "younger generation" we're talking about if the averages are at those income brackets. The median household income in the U.S. is $67K by comparison.
The women of Nigeria and India found a way to obtain coverage ... press coverage. As employed by PETA. A bold action, as in the movie Wanderlust. I know this is a lot to ask for, but if extinction rebellion flash mobs could suddenly appear at such climate change events wearing only (organic hemp) beach towels printed with environmental slogans like those on picket signs; signifying that we're not throwing in the towel ... quite obviously ... then that would also inject a note of humor without humiliation or condemnation in the eyes of those bound by strict religious moral codes banning nudity. However, individual affinity groups could by consensus, decide among themselves to rogue as they are known to do by consensus from time to time, and sit down together with arms locked. Of course, if each towel was clasped with nothing more than a clothes pins, there is a real chance of towels falling away as individuals are removed and arrested. However, this would ensure more coverage via camera phones and the press alike; discouraging police violence, whilst documenting any that might occur. I hope you read this post as well Greta, as I can only post in replies without being shh-add-dough-band by Al-Gore-rhythms. _Gotta' d-a-s-h now!_
As a life long conservative, I’ve always been a Bill Maher fan. His social policies and progressive altruism I disagree with but he’s an old school liberal, and hasn’t changed even with woke leftism. He has courage. You go Bill, I’d vote for you if you ever ran nationally simply because you’re consistent.
Bill Maher Altruism? Are you serious he made the most Altruistic UA-camr out to be a planet killing clout chaser. You proved exactly what we already knew you don't want politicians you want reality stars.
@@svtinker LOL I would never go that far. Sometimes you need to stop saying dumb stuff because both are the same. A fascist state is not different from a woke cesspool you clown
As usual the end of new rules is the best part of the show . always outstanding . the phone thing reminds me of that bumper sticker that people obsessed with guns put on their vehicles, that says, "I'll give you my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands" . just replace the word gun with phone, and it could easily pertain to today's youth.
@@jeremyramey3221 i personally blame us boomers for not beating some sense into our children like our parents did. instead we felt picked on so we babied our babies all the way to adulthood and got children like you
@@dizzug4058 I am a boomer jackazz. What you did with your children was let them be raised by teachers and the TV. You barely paid any attention to them at all because you were too involved with your own self centered entitled life. Your kids hate you for it. There isn't a single generation more "entitled" than ours.
I love watching boomers and millennials yell at each other. Not knowing who's the boomer and who's the millennial,...its awesome. ,...and then there's the poor forgotten gen-xer in the middle. 😆
I went back to college as a non traditional student. I offered one of my classmates $100 cash if she would turn off her phone and let me keep it for her for half a day. She said yes. She turned off her phone and handed it to me. Barely 10 minutes later she wanted her phone back in a very desperate way. So I gave it to her and she lost the easiest $100 she would have ever made.
Inviting serious and thoughtful intellectuals - instead of pols and pundits - is what makes this show unique. Glenn Loury (Brown econ professor, MIT PhD) and John John McWhorter (Linguistics professor at Columbia) in particular. It's lost on the studio audience, of course, but the common sense and wisdom these two men bring to the discussion is truly breathtaking (not to mention their polite demeanor). More please...
Yes, whenever he invites an actor, musician, or some other "celebrity" from the entertainment business I am less interested in what they have to say than when he brings on true academics and genuine experts of their field.
McWhorter needs to let go of his ridiculous idea that America is a racist country. In another interview, when asked for evidence, after thinking, he came up with our schools are racist as white teachers are still resentful of desegregation. Oooookaaaay. But at least he recognizes the community's role in its own problems. Baby steps.
@@aljirou29 The country getting more racist and especially more openly racist was something I saw and felt happen as a reaction to Obama being elected. So much so I was worried and fully expecting the country to suddenly become way more openly misogynistic after Hillary Clinton's election that ended up not happening. But its hard to think it could have been worse than the Trump years were anyway.
@@aljirou29 America is a highly racist country, and we should admit it LOUDLY to be capable of making it less racist step by step since it cannot be done from evening to morning. And you need proof, yeah...? Ok, I'll give you one. One of the best proof is Michael Jackson. Super rich and ultra-successful. Regardless of that, what he wanted most was - to be WHITE. It probably was because to be black is "AWESOME" in this country, right... And if you need some other one, like REAL PROOF, then go to some good make-up artist and let him/her make you a black guy. And do it every day for 365 days at least. Live like a black in some average neighborhood in some red state. And after that year, come back, and then we will talk about racism... And you will explain to us all how America is not a racist country. I cannot wait for how "funny" your stories will be, of course, if you will make it since it can happen (just accidentally, of course) that you become a new George Floyd, Ahmaund Arbery, or Botham Jean. He just sat in his apartment eating ice cream when the policeman killed him, considering his apartment to be hers. How is it possible that never ever happened to anybody who is white...?! You are bling and deaf, man. You don't need proof; you need a good ophthalmologist and ORL doctor; make the appointments.
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU, Bill! I'm 33 and know that our generation is plenty old enough that we are just as culpable as the older generation. The waste and gluttony that millennials have in their lives should be criminal. People think "doing something" is just retweeting and sharing posts on Twitter and Facebook. Which does nothing. Or at least, not as much as actually doing something would do.
Yeah except millennial aren't as responsible. Boomers decimated out planet and did nothing but blame younger generations while they were sitting on their greedy excessive lives.
Someone who is 33 isn't really a 'young person' and really people like comparing Greta's generation to anyone past their mid 20 isn't fair. We have had a chance to actually do something. They haven't. More to the point, considering how limited in influence and power the young are and the fact that there is such massive inertia on actually dealing with it there is a question on what really impactful they can do. Frankly it is on their elders to actually give them some hope and direction and we have blatently failed in that regard.
@@coolcat6303 Democrats are the ones saying there is no difference between a man and a woman and that solar and wind are viable energy alternatives. In both cases, the science disagrees with them. The Republicans are right on this one.
"And like her dad, she's a self-made woman" - lmao, that was brutal
or just transphobic
@@loustapo934 Just a good joke, maybe.
All good jokes contain truth
@@loustapo934 cry me a river, lmao
What was brutal about it?
As a zoomer, I appreciate this message. It’s so easy to think “we’re better because…” but people are people. My generation’s just revolutionized excuses.
Everyone suffers from having too high self-esteem :|
It's nice to read this somehow! I am a young man. My childhood was in the 90's so I am not a guy from Generation Z. But there are so many hypocritical people in this Generation Z. As well as in all generations before. There are actually a lot of things that many of them don't get when it comes to environmental protection. And in fact do horribly wrong. But think they are holy angels and are right with everything.
We *industrialized excuses and virtue signalling. Don't forget to thumbs up if you agree. Right?
The idea that zoomers are susceptible to the notion that they are "better" than previous generations shocks me. What would give them that idea?
@@Warlikerooster03 Being raised with zero values, zero critical thinking skills and incredibly high self-esteem.
Oh wait, did I say "raised"? These kids weren't raised at all. They grew up in single parent households and/or households where both parents worked. They went to shit schools where they were taught to obey authority unquestioningly. Their parents never spent any time teaching them about life and they didn't even have church to fall back on as a way of teaching them basic values.
The blame is on all of us. And the responsibility to fix it is on all of us.
Bill has been absolutely ON it! I've always appreciated his humor even if we share different political views. Lately, his calling BS on hypocrisy has reached legendary level.
He's very right about some things, funny a lot, but constantly saying BS stuff, too. And I find him to be hypocritical since he complains about ageism and then attacks millennials and young people regularly. Ageism goes both ways.
@@swampsprite9 If we all just CORRECT what we agreed that were wrong & fix it and worry less or ignore what others didn't get it right, EVENTUALLY, everybody will get it right. People are so emphasized on what others did wrong argument comparing to what others said that was right & then somewhere along the line lost the urgency to correct the wrong as they are too busy finding what's wrong about others.
Right there with you, huge respect to Bill for speaking his mind no matter who might disagree
He is wrong on most things politically and I don't know how much of his humor should be credited to his writers, but I applaud him for allowing opposite opinions and views to be heard on his show, his questioning of popular liberal beliefs, and for exposing so many on the left for the hypocrites that they really are. He is genuinely funny, unless it's his writers.
@@Kurt77777 Do you mean he holds an opposite viewpoint to yours? He might be right and you're wrong. Did you ever consider that?
Just started following Bill Maher recently. I'm a fairly traditional conservative and had always viewed him as pretty liberal, which he is. But I value truth, honesty and common sense over anything and it takes a certain amount of curiosity and effort to discover what the truth about anything really is. Without that effort, I could so easily be a fool and never know it. I hope we all want the same thing...a better world, right? Putting our swords down and being honest about issues can be the bridge between conservatism and liberalism. I admire Bill Maher for being that type of person, and am extremely thankful that he has the platform he does.
Well put
At 68 years-old I remain unaffiliated with any political party and I've been a critical thinker my entire life but I've found that today we have a lie detector freely available to all of us on the public air waves....
...Whatever Donald Trump says, you can bet the opposite is true.
@@clivecarwardine9962 not well put, you sound like a bot and so does the op. YOURE NOT REAL. pROVE ME WRONG BY RESPONDING
I don't always agree with Bill, but sometimes he absolutely nails it!
I don't always agree with Bill, but when I do I drink Dos Equis.
Yeah that's pretty accurate.
YES!!
That's a strange way of saying "this guy has shit on common sense and decency for half a decade but I've got the critical thinking power of a turnip "
I don't always agree with Bill, Greta, or Anyone ! But Bill is Lame for attacking Greta for being less popular that Hollywood !
He's totally WEAK for telling her to STFU.
This is the saddest segment bc it honestly exposes humanity and our sad reality- we are just hypocrites through and through
No, we're rational. Sacrificing so much wealth is stupid, especially for uncertain climate outcomes. Further, if the natural catastrophes do arrive, rich countries are best equipped to handle them by investing in more resilient infrastructure. Wealth is always the best protector, both at an individual level and at a country level.
Who is Bill talking about?
My grown kids are nothing like the media portrays.
So normal and healthy and interesting.
Greta and Kylie both started life with trust funds.
Who cares?
How can you fail??!!?
I love trust funds. Every parent should have one for their kids. So smart.
@@nonmagicmike723 ah yes. Thinking more and more tech will solve the problems caused by technological “progress”.
Aka pure unadulterated hopium.
@@nonmagicmike723thinking we are separate from the natural world is the problem.
We are supported by it and have been depleting beyond carrying capacity for decades.
It will soon come crashing down. Look up Jevon’s paradox. Tech won’t save us, it might perhaps increase our capacity for pollution and consumption temporarily though.
@@elliot1850 Sure thing. What you say would be more convincing if I hadn't been hearing since the day I was born and even before. See: overpopulation scare of the 1960s.
Bill, I'm glad you're back to playing the middle game in no man's land. You're great at what you do, and I'm glad you're back to not 'picking sides' as it were. No one is safe from the truth and comedy.
I was just thinking the same thing!!!
I disagree with Maher on a lot of issues but I respect his defense of free speech and standing against hypocrisy.
Yeah, I haven't listened to Bill in a while, yet apparently he's not the one sided liberal he used to be.
@@ernestcote3398 He never was. You are just hearing the part you like.
@@thepagecollective well he didn't often before and I believe he's learning what will work for the future
Bill went from being outrageous in the 90's to being one of the few sane voices of reason in the 2020s
Hahahahaha.
No
@@justwannabehappy6735 lol we get it, you hate workers and everyone that isn't a white, heterosexual Christian.
You
And from the far left to the far right, according to modern labels. An interesting and lovely to see transition.
So I love Bill Maher. He brings some common sense to the room.. usually. Although, I feel like this Climate Change alarm-ism is bull shit. The Left cares about the environment, yeah? Yet the USA is the best, and CLEANEST extractor of crude oil.. Yet, here the Left is.. restricting the crap out of American Oil.. to the point that we have to buy oil from other countries. Which for One: Makes other countries rich, instead of domestic companies. For Two: Now they have transport(likely by diesel trucks) the crude oil to the port, which then gets pumped into a tanker ship. That tanker ship now has to travel, by sea to bring it to us so we can refine it. So a tanker ship is said to burn 2,400 GALLONS of diesel per HOUR. It would take 21-35 days to travel to the US from Russia, dependent on weather. So you're going to tell me that an Oil Tanker having to deal with rough seas somewhere along the journey is safer than a welded pipeline? Watch the videos I linked to see how bad it can get. The stress on the hull of that ship is enormous. It's amazing we don't have more tanker spills in the ocean. But anyways, buying oil from your neighbor is way better for OUR economy, and for our environment. Less fossil fuels are burnt to get the crude oil here.
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I always laugh when I see a paper straw in a plastic Starbucks cup, My generation is really out here making the hard sacrifices 😂😂
Seriously. Paper straws are useless and you would be using less plastic if they turned the cups into paper, which actually work!
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I Smh when San Francisco banned plastic straws and I saw plastic syringes and all over the ground. Bring your bag to shop and non disposable masks on the ground.
On the subject of plastic, don't plastic bags do less damage to mother Gaia ("The 7 Blessings of Science upon her forever awomxn") than cloth bags (like, 300-times-less-pollution).
Just saying, maybe George Carlin had a point when he jested that our species entire purpose was to make more plastic for Gaia ("The 7 Blessings of Science upon her forever awomxn")
@@somedandy7694 - Using the word Gaia is one of the most pretentious things out there. Embellishments upon its use even more so.
"The planet is fine....the PEOPLE are fucked." (George Carlin)
I keep trying to tell people this. Maybe the planet wanted plastic, it's got it now, so maybe we have fulfilled our purpose.
@@bolo2393 And we can be phased out now...
The planet will make it - it may look like Mars, but the big rock will still be there.
@@Misses-Hippy it has looked like a big rock at least 5 times before only to have explosions of life follow. Ebb and flow. Feast and famine. Up down black white ying yang. It is the cyclical nature of biological existence.
The best part of this Carlin rant was the point about our hubris. We think that we are the only reason the earth would change. It has to be us and not the geologically and archeologically established cycle of greenhouse / ice ages. We always try to separate ourselves from nature, but we are just as much a part of it as anything else.
That said, there are many things we could be doing better. For starters: Cities are, ecologically speaking, a joke. If you aren't personally involved in the farming/raising/gathering/hunting/composting of your own food you are part of the problem. (I just ate fast food and I don't have a garden, so I'm totally guilty as anyone)
@@bolo2393 I had my mother in mind (and she had right-wing radio in mind) when I wrote that. She was discounting climate change arguing the planet would survive of course. I said, Yes, but it might look like Mars.
Thank you for your optimism. Maybe even Mars will flourish with time. But I would still be concerned about climate change happening now on this planet. Bonjour, from France!
"It's always sad when fire kills potential slippers". Epic burn. Bill was taking no prisoners tonight.
Bills moving over to NEWSMAX
the fuck did you watch?
That was a pretty hard line.
@@darrellconnolly990 ok zoomer
@@darrellconnolly990 boom!🤣🤣🤣
I am a school teacher in Germany and I am going to show this in class.
“The planet isn’t going anywhere. WE are!”
- George Carlin
"The planet is fine. The people are fucked."
Edit: also said by George Carlin
"People say, 'Oh, we have to save the planet by not putting plastic bags into the landfills' but that doesn't do anything, that doesn't go far enough. We have to change OURSELVES! And we'll never do THAT, because everyone's too fat and happy, everyone has a cell phone that will make pancakes and rub their , so no one wants to rock the boat, no one wants to change anything. So we're slowly circling the drain, and the circles get smaller, and the circles get faster . . . . " -George Carlin
Rooting for that meteor!
@@danballe 😄
What I feel bad about is the massive amounts of species and biodiversity we are taking out with us.
They certainly didn't deserve it
"And like her dad, she's a self-made woman" I nearly choked to death when he said that. LMAO!!
I had to google who her dad was... then I laughed
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Nice predator priest reference 😁
Joke of the year
I say this everything I hear diane hendricks say that self made bull shit!
As Glenn Reynolds said about 15 years ago concerning climate change; “ I’ll believe there’s a crises when the people that tell me there’s a crises behave like there is one.”
Nice one mate. Dunno who Glenn Reynolds is but I'm gonna find out. I like him.
Well, there are people telling us it’s a crisis who behave like it. It’s just not everybody. Also, that’s not really a great rule. Many people know smoking, drinking, or overeating is bad for them but still do it; the same can go for issues about the world. One should believe there’s a crisis if the evidence suggests it, and the evidence is very unequivocal.
Exactly the Obamas have a house on Martha's Vineyard. I'm sorry he's not worried about it going underwater.
@@theonionpirate1076 Believing and acting are two separate things. Many people know that pigging out on luxury and convenience is bad for the environment but they still do it. I think Woody's point is that there is a huge double standard between how people talk about the climate crisis and how they adjust their behaviours accordingly. Also, as a final word, if you believe what you said about the evidence being unequivocal, you should be talking to the people who engage in excesses mentioned by Bill in the video yet at the same time proclaim they are concerned with the environment. Make sure they correct their double standard.
@@caciliawhy5195 Off topic.
I'm so glad we have been making progress on keeping it real! Go, Bill!
One of the best monologues I've ever heard about the current climate situation and the attitude of young people towards it.
Young people's attitude is usually much better than the fat old overindulgent rich people - WHO HAVE ALL THE POWER TO CHANGE THINGS, AND DON'T!
And I'm fairly comfortably off, and 73.
Imagine if Greta started saying stuff like this, all these astroturf companies that pay her would toss her in a second.
I’ve been watching Bill for over 20 years and don’t always agree with him but he’s 100% right on many things
I think as the left has gotten more preposterous, he's started calling them out more. Not that's a chargers conservative by any stretch, but he had stopped blindly touting liberal talking points.
@@DILLIGAFFB he has kinda stopped it. The programming is still there.
@@TaxMan1776 right. But years ago he wouldn't have even thought about saying something like this.
Yeah, what a shame he is right only when polls tell him what majority thinks... so he is usually a 12-18 months behind the curve, this much he needs to "wake up" to the reality while bashing along the way people that he agrees with 12-18months later.
One could say Bill is 100% right, ~50% of the time?
Great to see someone calling out the glaring hypocrisy and hubris of yet another generation that blames, whines, and takes the moral high ground yet sinks in the valley of anger, confusion and BS.
What? Are you serious? Please explain what "sinks in the valley of anger, confusion and BS" means; it sounds like complete BS to me.
Bill Maher
100 %.. yet will turn around and support the same Democrat Socialist politicians back into government payrolls.. The same politicians that push PC POLITICS of Climate Change, Carbon Credits and politicians that support blm, antifa arsonists street gangs..
Bill Maher, two face back stabbing Democrats Socialist supporter..
Yet funny comedian..
People can also check out videos of SAVING THE PLANET by George Carlin..
hes projecting his boomer pov.
Bill Maher definitely had this topic pegged. he was absolutely correct. sometimes the truth hurts no matter what generation you are in.
As a Zoomer, this was one of my favorite new rules he's ever done. I will never understand how people can recognize that climate change is an issue without recognizing the social responsibility that comes with solving it.
Passing the responsibility into individuals to solve this problem plays right into the hands of the corporations making billions off destroying the environment. We will only solve this problem from the top down.
@@miltongreene1889 thank you!! Why is everyone so easily convinced by this BS corporate propaganda?!
@@miltongreene1889 absolutely! Hold the companies accountable for killing our environment for profit. They love to blame the poor people!
@@miltongreene1889 it's a chicken or the egg situation. The corporations behave this way because the consumers demand it. The truth is we are doomed. Everyone will blame everyone while the earth rots so enjoy the time you have and try to make some new friends :)
It's hubris to think the planet needs us or gives two craps about us. Earth was trucking along happily making extinct 99% of all species that has ever lived and it will keep trucking along just fine after we're extinct. We are but a minor inconvenience to this planet.
Wow! I am impressed with Bill Maher. Never expected to hear this out of him. I may actually start watching him more. A true comedian is one that is comfortable enough to pick on everyone equally and truthfully. To point out the hypocrisies within Society. I actually loved what he had to say it was spot-on. That is the only way to get to the truth!💙🇺🇲
The left wing has lied to us....
Same. I always heard of him as a leftist propaganda parrot, but he was handing their asses right back to them. I won't be surprised when he's condemned as "sexist" for not tapping his forehead onto the ground when he spoke of a Kardashian. Or the accusations come up.
Then you may want to revisit his previous recordings over the past 3 decades since he is a staunch political commentator as well as comedian, actor, writer, producer as with other accomplishments. Although he is a liberal with left-leaning tendencies, I find him more open to honest political discussions with those that may oppose his view than others on his side of the Aisle. I particularly like the interview he has done with Ben Shapiro since they both back their arguments up with actual facts.
"The cognitive dissonance between planet destroying conspicuous consumption and planet saving rhetoric is breathtaking"
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they admit that his gen dropped the ball on the environment, but they seem in complete denial that they dropped the ball on parenting. They created this shitty society that exploits the psychology of the youth for financial gain and he actually has the nerve to act like the youth are the problem.
Thank god you all die one day, no matter how much money you have.
@@jdogsful infantalism
"Everything woke turns to sh*t"
- President Trump
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I'm 0:45 into the video and I already agree totally with Bill. All talk and no action. But talk is still VERY DANGEROUS. Mathieu, you and Greta Thunberg can have my luxury apartment and my 2022 CHEVROLET SILVERADO CUSTOM TRAIL BOSS when you pry the keys from my cold lifeless fingers...and possibly not even then.
He gets straight to the hypocrisy in us all.
That was a good one Bill Maher,the message of hypocrisy of today's new generation was brutally to the point and powerful.
@your mother's bum they’re definitely the most self entitled and narcissistic
I love anyone who will call out hypocrisy from any source--you, good sir, are NAILING IT!!
2:18 - "The cognitive dissonance between planet-destroying conspicuous consumption and planet-saving rhetoric is breath-taking." Thank-you!!
Not really. I either couldn't care less about, or actively dislike, Bitcoin and the celebrities he mentioned. It isn't cognitive dissonance when the Zoomers who are into Bitcoin and Kylie Jenner are separate people than the Zoomers who are concerned about the environment.
Ya, gunna have to give this segment a big thumb down. Comparing a cell phone, a microscopically small and highly energy effecient device that's basically the only creature comfort most millenials and gen z have and trying to make that sound equivalent to corporations that are responsible for 70% of all carbon emissions and billionaires living in climate controlled fortresses and flying around in their own private jet to shopping trips to buy 1000000 items of designer clothing is the biggest bullshit line I have ever heard in my life.
Bill Maher should shut the fuck up and retire.
@@Sanosukeafo True enough, though internet platforms like Twitter and online news formats etc are a big reason for things such as Donald Trump becoming US President, and the internet now is THE major distraction in the world from facing reality, actual society and making an effort to change for good. Of course there are big players in business (in bed with political parties) etc which are deeply corrupt but they all use this drug called the internet and smart devices to increase and maintain their power, and most of us are utterly complicit in this technological takeover of people's brains. Even my typing this now is a complete waste of time. Another empty comment that'll vanish into the online comments void - words that nobody will ever even consider seriously and at best only be skim-read by those desperate to have an argument or something to make them feel alive.
@@DM-kv9kj
I will keep this comment alive by screenshooting it for myself for motiviational purposes.
Honestly, any climate plan that consists of “People should individually choice to be conscientious consumers” is doomed to miserable failure. And trying to shame people into being conscientious won’t work either. It’ll just make them resent you.
The real answer is that you let people consume what they want…you just make them pay the actual costs of their consumption. I promise you that if you simply implemented a carbon tax, you could reduce emissions by increasing prices. This would both decrease demand for such goods and services and incentivize efforts to make them less carbon-intensive.
Wow you really hit it on the nail with this younger generation. I've noticed the same thing. They sit on the ferry dock with their cars running so they can play with their phones. On a black tarmac that's hotter than hell their windows are rolled up and they have the air conditioning on. While the rest of us breathe in their toxic fumes and do our best to stay cool. They think nothing of cutting in line ahead of others who have been sitting there for ever sometimes. There are natural born narcissists
Not natural born. We made them through shitty parenting and raising them through social media and removing any risk that would make them self reflecting, resilient humans.
what, ALL of them?
All kids forever have been narcissists. That's how kids figure out who they are and how to communicate. By making themselves the center of their own world.
Hypocrites can’t even reduce drinking coke in plastic bottles, or even force coke to go back to glass packaging.
They will however force Netflix to fire Chappelle for not sharing their views.
oh man - nail on the head - yes
Fast food places don’t even ask if you want a straw, they just give you one.
@@kevyxcx5829 As bringing a cloth bag shopping was brought up in this clip I have to throw this out there: The carbon footprint of 1 poly/cotton blend bag is as much as 20,000 times worse than a plastic bag (Danish Governmental Report). So, since the average person goes shopping 2 times per week, do you think the average person is going to use a cloth bag for 200 years?
Boom!!
Wow! Great point man.
It's really nice to see that there is no blind spot when it come political affiliation as far as Bill is concerned. I really appreciate that. I wish more people would follow his example here.
His ignorance about cryptocurrency is a huge gaping blind spot.
@@death-disco All generations has some kind of ignorance in societal sense
@ELFIST for example, Tiktok, it is a China comnunist tool to make Americans idiots
It's the same reason why the first countries and states to fight slavery were the ones that stopped being economically dependent on it: most people only do the right thing when it's easy 😔
It wasn't easy to fight against slavery, it was also expensive, the British were still paying for it up untill 2015 , they also lost a lot of lives enforcing it
Right, the Industrial Revolution made slavery unnessary.
So the Civil War, fighting against your real life brothers was easy. The fight against slavery caused a 4 year long Civil War. The price was immense. It also cost the president his life. Wtf makes you think any part of it was easy for blacks and whites? Change never happens when its easy. It happens when it needs to happen.
The British ones. The southern states have more of a French/Spanish background. The British abolished slavery long before the continentals.
@David disagree dude
Maher says it like it is. No bsing around. Straight and to the point. Speaks for this boomer exactly!
"Fake tits aren't biodegradable " love it! 😂
So the solution is biodegradable fake tits, or am I missing something?
He could be right or he could be wrong. I think it would all depend upon what material is used to make them. Pax
old technology rules, natural! lmao
@@Nutamago *RULES OF NATURE!*
Wellllllll. the salt water inside em is biodegradeable, right? I mean they fill em with Saline right? Thats salt water. So when the hot chick dies that water'll jus pour on out, no harm no foul.
And the plastic parts just a tiny percentage of it, right? And lets face it, those things make everyone soooooooooooo happy!!
I'm 28 and I have to say: Thank you, Bill. 🙏
My generation definitely is not as good and pure as what we claim to be.
One word: hypocritic.
I've never heard any generation speak collectively.
@@anthonycameronnajera8471 Baby Boomers? Gen X? Gen Y? Millenials?
@@diegopons4622 None of them speak collectively. He's literally ignoring the fact that the loudest voices this day, and in the past, have been that of a minority of people. He hates cancel culture, but fails to realize the same people who use it are the same people who are fans of the worst people in the world.
Dont be too hard on yourselves. All generations think they're going to change the world when they're young. Naivety comes with being young.
"its always so sad when fire kills potential slippers"-bill maher. now, that line was fire.no pun. lol
$400 for that garbage hat made for .20 cents in Vietnam ? Sounds like a good deal for Balenciaga !! They couldn’t pay me $400 to wear it 😂
Right. But it's either ".20 Dollars" or "20 cents". Because labor is cheap in East Asia, but a fifth of a cent really is too cheap.
I’m a teacher. What’s really disgusting; step in a elementary/junior or high school students and ask them what they want to be when they grow up? INFLUENCERS. 99.9% answer like this. It just makes me ill.
You can thank the right wing social/linguistic eugenics of individualism..
Me me me me me first.. screw you..
Me me me me me me me..
I'm a conservative who has always loved Bill. Love his insights and always challenging.
Bill Buckley would be proud of you. you are a real conservative - someone who respects other opinions and can argue a point, not call out meaningless memes! and that goes for both sides!! Keep safe. :) 🌷🌱
I really appreciate that. I'm the opposite - I'm a moderate leftist and there are a few conservative channels I listen to regularly on UA-cam. I don't always agree with them, but often I do. I think I have far more in common with centrists conservatives than I do with extreme leftists.
You should change your party. Republicans have been Dumb since Sarah Palin
@@feralbluee Mainstream media makes it seem liberals and conservatives are more divided than we actually are.
I'm an anti-capitalist, feminist, and left winger but I believe (along with many silenced lefties) that trans women are not women, men and women's brains are wired differently, anyone can be racist, cultural appropriation isn't always a bad thing, serious criminals should never be released, very late term abortion is murder, white men/white people are trashed too much by the left, and many liberals are dogmatic, narrow minded bullies.
And society needs to stop ignoring black male crime especially since black women and children are the most affected.
The thing is, certain politically incorrect beliefs aren't allowed in "left wing" media and only conservatives can say them outloud. That's why we need to talk with EACH OTHER more, you can't trust the media.
@@swampsprite9 interesting thoughts. would make for good discussions.
i no longer identify with ‘the left’ . they are dogmatically, creating divisions in our culture (as the far right does), and teaching little children that they’re racists because they’re white, is so totally and absolutely morally disgusting and nasty; it’s just atrocious. are they teaching Afroamerican 5 y.olds that white people hate them? god knows what the ef they’re doing. that’s not how we thought in the ‘60’s, ‘70’s, and ‘80’s.
This IS a master class in Responsibility and Consistency. Issues that go beyond generations, since they are mankind's .
NAILED IT, Bill!
✨💎 Excellent point. TY for putting it in its much larger (& appropriate) perspective. Wish I had 100 or 1,000 likes for this one. One "like" just isn't enough
Every now and then, you really hit the nail on the head.
I salute you Bill , for speaking the truth. Greetz from Belgium.
As a 32-year-old, I've been saying this for a long time. Of course, when I do say it, I always get told "ok boomer" by obnoxious kids who think they know it all and are better than everyone born before them. Youthful ignorance is a perpetual reality, no matter how much current young people think they're the first exception.
As a 40 year old with actual Boomer parents Im still coming to terms with the disappointment that my generation isn't actually any good at saving the world either.
I mean we watched that video in school in the 90s with the Rainforest Rap in it and everything. "All the beauty.. in the rainforest.. the tropical rainforest.."
Those kids tht called u a boomer seem kinda dim, u’d b a millennial… boomers were between the 1940’s and 1960’s, millennials 80-89 I believe.
All young folks (including myself) have had a hatred for the older generation. I'm 66 now, and see the following generations doing the same, yes. But rare are the few that say " I will do something sincere". And they actually mean it. They do not blame or accuse. They work hard in a political stance or a public stance to effect a change that will be meaningful to the public. This is how things are accomplished. You point a finger at my chest and call me a name rest assured you ain't got my attention. I'm glad you realize this M.S. Keep passing this message.
"Youthful ignorance is a perpetual reality"
AND that is what I respect about this guy, he is never shy about calling anyone on his bullshit, including his audience.
Cheers from Mexico Bill.
@@Powercise1 You need help if you think that. I hope you get it.
@@SuhaibZafar he was wrong! Terribly so.
Great talk. The latest generations are certainly no better than older ones, though they open their big mouths with all talk and no action. Thanks, Bill, for pointing it out.
Thats why so many young people go vegan you know? They take no action!
18-19 year old: 7% is vegan
60-64 year old: 1% is vegan
7x times increase but they take no action!
Mmm you got a point but none talk more than older generations like you blaming the young folk. You are now the old guy yelling at the kids for throwing balls over your fence. I know it was long time ago but remember when you were the kid
Agreed. Im gen z
Great stuff Bill! Hypocrisy is what makes the world go round, sadly.
“Fake tit’s are not biodegradable!” Hot damn … never thought of that!!!
Learn something new everyday 🤣😂
it's a fact ! 😄
My ex will not be happy to hear that.
@@jamesritacco1693 then by all means tell her they aren't biodegradable.. If u don't get to touch em anymore, u should get some fun out of them lol
Neither are fake asses. lol
Seriously?? Jesus fuckin christ.... mankind is so fucked🤣🤣🤣
Great rant. You could hear the audience hesitation and feel their conviction burning in themselves. It's actually quite sad when Bill Maher does more to convict the heart than modern Christians churches who are too afraid of potentially offending people.
He is a good comedian but he has tu educate himself on stuff like Bitcoin . Most of the thing he said about Bitcoin is simply wrong but he is so confident about it !
@@red149 how was he wrong? Bitcoin has had alot of issues with people running away with the money lately
@@red149 Nothing he said about bitcoin is wrong - he's obviously not the one who needs educating.
@@red149 you just made his point… entirely.
@@olemo7806 well yeah, he absolutely was wrong. It's typical for Bitcoin to be conflated as 'all of crypto' by those who know no better - the truth is that there are numerous cryptos that have figured out how to minimize their energy usage on a transactional basis - ADA, ALGO, XRP, etc. Bitcoin is the main mover because it was first. But most of the other cryptos are working towards energy friendly solutions for their computations and transactions, so he really is off base here.
Quite applause on this one. Because he nailed it.
Remember when Imelda Marcos, wife of Philippine Dictator Ferdinand Marcos had three thousand pairs of shoes and we thought that was an outrage?
🤔
Brace yourself: her son is running for president.
@@phoenix5054 😐 can he be worse than Duterte?
On second thought, don’t answer that. He could be.
Today's new rule section was awesome!. I wish it lasted longer.
🤦🏻♂️
...nah, it's biodegradable 😆
I wish I lasted longer😔
Wait, what were we talkin about?
Could he understand that cryptocurrencies have different energy need? There are VERY VERY large differences. Not even all of them require mining.
@@Powercise1 yeah, SOME younger people do that. MOST of them consume way more energy, resources and fall to consumerism way easier and deeper than older people. That was the point.
Btw, has the bitcoin thing really been objectibly and reliably debunked? Honest question.
As a Millennial, I agree with this premise. How often do the majority in my generation and younger resort to virtue signaling while doing nothing about the problems they're supposedly raising awareness to? It's far too often. We can get the terrible cost of NFTs to trend on Twitter, but we can't really stop artists or buyers in our generation, we don't make a collective push to call our senators and congressman, we don't take up picket signs. We just retweet and then go on to check out the newest makeup line while ignoring the child labor used to get mica.
There are good people in all generations who are subjected to the bullshittery of their peers. You know if you're one of them based on this segment. Boomers won't be around forever for us to blame our problems on.
You just found out it's all virtual signalling? welcome to reality :). Even the world leaders are flying jets. You and I are here on our computers. I just wonder if you some of you even understand what you are asking for seriously.
@@tivmego ah, I never said I just learned this. I agree with Bill Maher and I appreciate the ways in which he illustrates it. There's even more on the side when you're in the trenches, as I'm pointing out.
Some things have to start as a will, yes, but our propensity to blame others is really a big Achilles heel. Blame won't solve any problems now. Stop talking about who's the problem and start talking about the solutions, right?
@@tivmego The fact is, what anyone does individually doesn't make a difference. Simply put, energy consumption needs to be curtailed by taxing energy consumption instead of income. Drinking coffee out of reusable cups instead of paper cups does nothing.
@@RWAsur
I am a disciple of doing what I believe. If you believe the world is coming to an end, could you stop using the computer and relocate to some isolated forest where energy is not consumed? Until those who believe this whole climate prophesy adhere to what they preach, no one will take you guys seriously. That is what Bill is saying. Until you practice what you preach, it is mere virtual signalling.
@@soulscanner66
And who will tell you to get off your phones and computer? Don't you have these tech gadgets? Have you discarded your computer and phone?
As a zoomer, this message really helped me realize how we have a choice we can make and we need to make the right choice.
Just kidding, I'm not a zoomer. This is the internet, everything is inauthentic BS and we waste our time gobbling up "content". Social media is a plague.
I am a millennial and I fully agree with Bill 👍🏻
They are talking about gen z no one cares about making fun of us anymore. We have to wait until gen z's kids think harry potter is cool again and then we will clash over whatever new thing they're doing.
@@dps8629 He literally mentioned millennials in the video more than once.
I’m an old millennial so I missed his cut off.
@@DoggoWillink Crazy to think how the oldest of this cohort is now entering their 40s when it seems like just yesterday that they were apart of OWS and acting like a bunch of spoiled teens.
@@douche8980 Yeah I know. I’ll be 35 this year, crazy lol. Still a millennial technically though.
"It's always so sad when fire kills potential slippers"
LMAO
That one went over my head. What was he referencing?
@@chrismullin8304 Kylie Jenner posting about being upset that forest fires are killing koala bears.
@Real Time▫️With Bill▫️Maher No.
That last line…”Fake tits are not biodegradable” just slayed me! LMFAOOOOOOOO
Really now?
I laughed so hard at that line lol
@Puma Man I guess you are just jealous and bored so you are making "smart" comments like that... a nobody who had achieved nothing in his/her entire life
@@atathehun8003 , and what has greta achieved other than getting her parents paid in order to promote a tax scam on the public?
♻️ made and raised for all natural.
Well said Mr Maher.
The best thing about Bill's rants is the audience knows the his talking about them and their little shame claps are hilarious.
The same with feminism: the same women who are triggered about everything will support Bill Clinton or listen to gangster rap which degrades women
@Janus Zeal Of course it's a generalization. So what? People must often use generalizations when communicating. You cannot include every except and every detail in every conversation. Generalizations are useful and exist for a reason.
@@kv2723 like all white conservatives are racist?
Janus Zeal or you could flip it around and say that the same people that are pro abortion want to spare the life of a mass murder or sex offenders. Or call Trump xenophobic while praising their God Obama who bragged about being deporter in chief
Janus Zeal someone is triggered! I lean left on somethings and right on others and libertarian on others. I think that Bill, on this clip, was talking about people who are so self righteous but don’t practice what they preach
"Lots of talk but at the end of the day hopelessly addicted to... consumption." Aint that the truth
Bill Maher: "if you care about the environment don't own a phone!"
Also Bill Maher: "if you care about the environment then why aren't you following Greta Thunberg on Twitter?!"
@@climatedeniersbelonginasyl4191 Nah that's not what he is saying. Those are two different point. He's saying Gen Z claim to be woke in words, but when it comes time for taking action, their consumption is as bad for the planet as any other generation
@@KyleC1990 Bingo
They really don't do much in the way of action. But hey, they said some witty aphorism and now have more likes/followers/subscribers/retweets/etc and that's like super important!
@@KyleC1990 you mean worse. A LOT worse.
Not always in line with Bill but damn he nailed this like a Master carpenter!
Really? Was it the part where he used ONE video of MR beast giving someone 40 cars? But left out that he had 20 million trees planted last year and is raising money to have 30 million pounds of trash removed from the ocean? Sure it's easy to nail things if you Cherry Pick the things that make people look bad and leave out the accomplishments that completely refute the idea. Master Carpenter indeed.
Because he shifted the blame off your lethargic boomer ass onto the generation you raised by equating an Instagram follow with a disinterest in saving the environment?
Yeah, what a brilliant take. Clearly teenagers and 20-somethings hold all the power in society and the rest can just look to their leadership.
@@darktheories1758 when did he do this tree planting?
@@pancakemogul yeah keep refusing to take any responsibility I'm sure that will work out well for you. You also seemed to ignore the facts he pushed out for you.
@@hauntedhouse7827 What power do you imagine 20-somethings and teenagers, i.e. KJ's followers, have in this society?
Inflated college debt, inflated housing prices, inflated prices on medicine and healthcare and deflated wages - all obstacles that Bill's generation didn't encounter.
Sure, if millennials and zoomers have anything, it's a surplus of time and resources.
that ending was GOLD
Simple, painful truth - wrapped in amusement for your convenience.
South Park already covered this whole issue with man bear pig/ Al Gore/red dead redemption
@Oh My Oh my , its nothing but a tax scam. that's what climate change is about. if gasoline use is gonna end the world in 12 years as AOC claimed, the government would have banned it by now and the public would be riding horses buggies and bikes. taxing people for using gasoline because the climate changed a degree or two in a hundred year study when the earth is billions of years old is just nothing but a money making scheme by the government using media to scare people into voting for more taxes for a made up problem.
"powered by the wind"... And diesel.
Bill Maher: "if you care about the environment don't own a phone!"
Also Bill Maher: "if you care about the environment then why aren't you following Greta Thunberg on Twitter?!"
Sanitized for your protection
As an older millennial, I've been saying this for a while. I see lots of talk from the current generations and no action. I'll see someone that talks about saving the world all while they are the first person to turn the AC on in their house....or they'll need a new car every few years while ignoring that 60 years ago, if you got a new car, it was a huge deal in the neighborhood. I see the same ppl making sure they get their drive every day which contains plastic instead of bringing coffee from home in a reusable cup. I just see a lot of hypocrisy.
Haha pretty much spot on. They come off like politicians just getting riled up and talking about hot button issues and never really carrying out action like you said and making actual positive progress.
But it's the oil, gas, and car companies AND the military that are the actual problem. Spending time on your phone or turning on the AC or using a plastic straw is not the problem.
Sounds like GenX 25-30 years ago.
@@jaydon3292 And the clothing companies and the agricultural industry, but who is driving that demand? If people didn't buy a new car every 5 years. If people didn't buy a new wardrobe every 6 months. If people didn't eat ultra-processed, animal-based restaurant food twice a day. There's only so much blame that can be placed on the big bad corporations when they're primarily acting in response to consumer demand. Military is different, but everything else is ultimately driven by consumers. What it comes down to is that when given a choice, almost everyone will pick cheap and convenient over expensive and environmentally-friendly.
...but that plastic cup already exists. What's the difference between the person throwing it out or the company throwing it out? Buying it won't make a difference if it's going to be there regardless.
Most thoughtful piece Bill has done in a while; great writing 🏆🏆
@@Powercise1 Lol have you even watched his recent segments? The last two or three were far better. He gets a lot wrong in this one.
Yes Bill's writers made this one look genuine, you could tell bill wasnt just reading the teleprompter
@@Powercise1 Your tiki torch went out.
It's actually a piece Bill ORielly and Rush Limbaugh did weekly.
@@Powercise1 amazing how u chose not to list any examples to go with this opinion...
This is so great. It didn't championed one generation over the other. This piece showed that humanity is indeed repeating its mistake generation over generation
We all do the same shit but with a different coat of paint
He’s talking about the US.
You can leave the rest of humanity out of it la. We’re not party to your particular brands of Gen anything.
Those indoctrinated by your decades of cultural colonialism is Murica’s fault n’all.
That includes all your boxes.
@@Elephantstonica sorry la uncle 🤣 I'm also not American but definitely can see the funny side of both generations talking shit to each other while both are also being a hypocrite.
Everyone can be an a-hole and everyone can also be a good person. Age/generations doesn't factor that much
@@Elephantstonica Its true for the whole world.
What In the fuck are u talkin about.
Because that is what sustains the economy. Citizens misguided by media [teens, moms] to keep buying things.
Bill, it's never a good idea to generalize any group of people. Btw, plenty of people over 30 are surgically attached to their phones, especially blue check marks!
They might be over 30 but they behave like 12 year olds.
You must br fun at parties.
Cant believe I'm subscribing to bill maher. Hes waking up to some reality and is spking out using his platform. Keep it up bill. Hes figuring out the hypocrisy in the world
Thanks for waking up. IMHO, he has been seeing reality for what it is for years.
The media always lies! Beware!
We also need to give Honor to our Creator, who has loved us so much that He hasn't wiped us all off the earth.
yeah, you've been right on top of it...
As a 60 year old male conservative (probably have offered 1/2 the Liberals already) I have to constantly remind and show my 20 + year old daughter's how to recycle. Yes I'm the problem?
Every week New Rules has got me asking “why haven’t we heard anyone else say this? It’s so obvious!”.
@EQ Games Not causing it. Just helping to push it along at a nice pace.
Lots of people have said it, they don't just have a career as a comedian with their own TV show and UA-cam platform. Which is also something that bugs me about Greta Thunberg a little, she's hardly the only child to ever have strong ideas about the environment. She's just one that made the news and that gets a certain ball rolling which allows her to become a more effective activist.
@Get Zappéd 1974 Religion has very little, if anything, to do with climate change lol. Human stupidity would still exist without religion. It's just that nowadays, we worship different gods lol
Oh, plenty of people say that, but they are mostly on "far-right" side as libs call it
Both women are lost, and their only fruit is fear, doubt and worry.
One wears it on her sleeve.
The other actively teaches their is no God who sustains the world by His word. And who made the Earth by His word as well.
God will judge both for their works just like all of us.
But Kylie doesn't go around telling people the earth is going to vanish in 7 years. A self proclaimed guru Greta purports.
So both have their part in swaying women and teens to live the world ideology.
One actively says their is no God.
Jesus said, if you don't keep the commandments of God and teach others to do the same you will be the least in the kingdom of heaven.
Let that sink in for a second.
Bill's touching on something I think about a lot: the millennial and gen z generations poll as hating capitalism, but what they should really hate (or do and don't realize it) is consumerism.
Lassiez faire capitalism is the problem.
@@bobbafett1849 you really missed the point of the video..
@@bobbafett1849 it’s really not. As long as people care more about their cars than their neighbors, every system will be comparably harmful. Materialism and poor prioritization is the problem, not capitalism.
Same thing.
Capitalism is only successful with consumerism. It cant thrive without it. Greed destroys. Socialism is the best option. It isnt a dirty word or an insult. Not all industries need be heavily regulated. But guess what? If the top 1-10% owned 90-99% of the food, people would not be so enamored with capitalism. Capitalism is chaos. Capitalism allows greedy and selfish assholes to flourish at our expense. You want freedom? Guess what someone will be free to buy/take control of everything. Then mark it up, or make you beg or just enslave everyone. Unchecked freedom is how assholes take control. There has to be checks and balances and rules. That is socialism
This is a very underrated monologue. Great job, Bill.
I didn't notice a "rating" - but there are 67k likes
@@dhutch71 I’m simply saying that, of all the Bill Maher monologues that get promoted or get recommended, I feel this one is better than 90% of them. At any rate, my comment was complimentary. So, I’m not sure what the problem is.
I like this guy the more I listen to & contemplate his honesty.
I'm proud to be a moderate Republican who welcomes & values Mr. Maher's candor.
Too true. I couldn't add to this without repeating Bill. We're doomed, sure... but maybe we should be.
Well, I knew that when they chose Barrabás instead of Jesus. Took you only almost 2000 years to find out.
Ya people need to get their heads out there ass
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@@noirrain6005 LOL!
Uneducated white Republicans should not vote
@@chrissullivan4496 Everyone is uneducated.
Watch the 1942 USDA film, *Hemp For Victory.* There's an official government link to the video.
See for yourself why this doesn't get taught in history classes, even in college.
Wow. I never in 1 million years thought I would start loving and agreeing with Bill Maher. I've been loving his content lately.
Yes Maher is becoming a right wing hit on Fox. And why not ? They have a lot in common. Neither give a shit about facts.
Bill Maher: "if you care about the environment don't own a phone!"
Also Bill Maher: "if you care about the environment then why aren't you following Greta Thunberg on Twitter?!"
@@JustLikeGreta neither does the other side
@@JustLikeGreta LIKE YOU???
@@JustLikeGreta Just so you know, Insults are not facts. I will be waiting for those facts that you talked about.... If you're going to use insults again, I will conclude you have no facts, just your feelings...
Best monologue in a while, and they are always very good.
Ya it's weird how the tv people never want to talk about all the things they ignore that lead to these problems
@@Rays_Bad_Decisions oh no
that would include talking about issues that offend the boomers.
It's BS!
@@Powercise1 and Mr beast is giving away his wealth. While he did team trees and is now doing team seas. It’s almost like his writers are trying to make bill look stupid. I’m 42, but Mr. Beast is a role model for my daughters. Bill has so gone right wing. He’s a shell of the liberal he use to be.
@@mjvjohnson I am a pretty generous heart. But even I am not Mr. Beast level generous. I respect his style and what he does.
This is why I can be so stupid, yet brilliant: because I'm informed by Bill Maher in insightful posts such as this. Thanks, Bill. I don't like your politics, but I do like your moxy. I agree with the comment of J Freed below...
I love when Bill gets on a subject that the audience thinks is true and funny but they are part of the problem and hesitant to laugh, because they know that
THEY ARE THE PROBLEM …
not "they" you're very mistaken it's "we"
@@kantraxoikol6914 ,
Thanks for the ‘leveling’ it is ‘we’ because’we’ all allow this to happen.
Why is that?
@@kevinedwards6093 Because many people are exceptionally stupid; after all, half the population has an IQ of below 100.
I wonder how many private jets greta has been on?
I think we could do better for a role model, just sayin.
@@kevinedwards6093 Has a lot to do with being human and not being able to carry the weight of every virtue signal we make.
Survival and the Angst & Suffering of living also places us in moral dilemmas where we don't always make the right choice.
Doing the greater good versus self preservation is definitely not instinctual.
The "They/We" dynamic that the above commenter made pretty much summarizes how we pass the buck and look at others as the problem, which causes paralysis.
I tried going the martyr route and doing greater good and got nothing but suffering and condemnation for it, in very rare cases will you be celebrated as the hero or appreciated, I don't even know of it's worth the effort at this point.
Sacrificing for others is a lonely endeavor...
They should print Gretta's scowl on all conspicuous consumption receipts .
Ironically, that might increase the consumption of such stuff
I can visualize that!
Or not print paper receipts at all
Anyone dumb enough to listen to a child deserves whatever happens to them
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With a little speaker that makes those styrofoam squeal noises
The truth is hard to swallow: and this is all true. Maher does an excellent job of condensing hard hitting facts into 7 minutes of consumable content. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
He's full of shit. His generation voted Biden into office, young people voted for Bernie. That shows the larger picture. Can't blame the young for growing up in a world their PARENTS created.
Yes he does. He also has excellent writers on staff to help.
@Rose-Marie Bothi There's zero truth to what you said. The youth voted for Bernie Sanders in the millions. Old Dems largely voted for Biden, who cares about climate change as much as a wolf cares about sheep. So, the youth WANTED to change on a mass scale, the boomer Dems did NOT. They actively said NO to climate policy with their votes in the primary. Twice. So Bill nor anyone else has a right to complain about the youth when they STOPPED the youth from acting. Fuck off.
Thank you Mr. Maher!
Day by day i am liking Bill more and more!!! Thank you Bill!!! Great show
Me, too. He could curse a little less
He wants you to like him because he needs you just like the scorpion needed the frog to cross the river.
"She built a massive empire without releasing a sex tape." Yeah.....but we all know she'd never have been in that position if that sex tape wasn't released...so technically, she's part of it.
Nice insight. So yeah,when people make money off of negativity that money has an energy associated with it. And she is definitely part is that whole negative energy if you ask me. Super Yuck!
Fairly certain that was Bill's point. :)
sarcasm much?
Goes further back, to OJ killing 2 people and Mr. Kardashian helping him get away with it. If that hadn't happened, Paris Hilton would have remained the most famous reality star and Kim Kardashian would have never been known.
Oh sh*t.
"And like her dad, she's a self-made woman."
Jeezus, the STING on that one.
Priceless joke
Oh God, it was so good, so good. I had tears in my eyes
I liked the last part more 😜 "fake tits are not biodegradable" powwwww!!!
The "woo" was weird.
I thought it was hilarious too, but the amount of "woos"... Just, Jesus. Haha
@@ninjabiatch101 I think the woos we're because it took them a minute to get who he meant
You are amazing. Keep 'em coming.
Thank Bill for pointing out the hypocrisy
It seems like the “Zoomers” have a split soul, just like the “Boomers” who gave us both the hippies and the yuppies.
The boomers were hippies... Yuppies were Gen X. Beatniks were silent generation. Hipsters are millennials. I don't know what zoomers will be. Dying of starvation I guess.
It's almost as if people were made up of different individuals and you can't generalize an entire generation 🤔
@@-umph No, you have that 100% wrong.
Hippies turned into yuppies; they're all Boomers.
Gen-X is just Gen-X.
@@-umph No they're right yuppies were boomers that bought into consumerism big time especially in the 80's. Gen X is only really know for three things: Alternative rock, cynicism, and being forgotten. Millennials are know for being entitled, Zoomers are pretty much like millennials only even more plugged-into social media with even shorter attention spans.
@@MattLovesVinyl 100% correct. Boomers are the Baby-Boomers. The soon to be or already are Elderly. Gen -X are the husk of what was supposed to be middle class that lived with "duck and cover" instructional videos.
Congratulations to you and your writers. Probably the best most courageous editorial ever.
That ending…….. Wow.
Yep, it takes a big man to blame young people for global warming, after all they're most responsible for it aren't they?
This one was by far the best one. Bravo to Bill and the writers.
@@Sdority905 nothing like a bit of whataboutism ay.
@Censorship Is always wrong "all talk" yea because I'm in a position of power (ceo of big corporation, government, influencer, etc) to make the necessary changes? Your comment is so irrelevant that I almost didn't bother replying, almost. Do you know who is in a position to influence people? Bill is and he's choosen the fallacy of whataboutism to pile blame onto a generation that hasn't even taken the reins from the older generation yet. Wait until they're leading countries (in about a decade) then pass judgement. Right now all bill is doing is pointing the finger at the least responsible generation for global warming as if its all their fault when the opposite is true.
Brilliant as always. Thanks a lot.
Right on Bill! Mainstream media should be bombarding us with these messages instead of the boring crap they feed us ad nauseum.
They actively withheld it
Mainstream media should be bombarding us that zoomers (aged 9-24) are hypocritical teenagers who follow pop stars and celebrities? Here's some facts Bill didn't mention. Forbes reported last year that the average Crypto buyer is 38 (a millennial, 25-40) with an annual salary of $130K/year. 30% of crypto owners are Gen X. On top of that, only 15% of U.S. consumers in total hold Crypto. Imagine how small of a percent of the "younger generation" we're talking about if the averages are at those income brackets. The median household income in the U.S. is $67K by comparison.
virtue signaling has-been living in a mj induced haze
The women of Nigeria and India found a way to obtain coverage ... press coverage. As employed by PETA.
A bold action, as in the movie Wanderlust. I know this is a lot to ask for, but if extinction rebellion flash mobs could suddenly appear at such climate change events wearing only (organic hemp) beach towels printed with environmental slogans like those on picket signs; signifying that we're not throwing in the towel ... quite obviously ... then that would also inject a note of humor without humiliation or condemnation in the eyes of those bound by strict religious moral codes banning nudity. However, individual affinity groups could by consensus, decide among themselves to rogue as they are known to do by consensus from time to time, and sit down together with arms locked. Of course, if each towel was clasped with nothing more than a clothes pins, there is a real chance of towels falling away as individuals are removed and arrested. However, this would ensure more coverage via camera phones and the press alike; discouraging police violence, whilst documenting any that might occur. I hope you read this post as well Greta, as I can only post in replies without being shh-add-dough-band by Al-Gore-rhythms. _Gotta' d-a-s-h now!_
They only give us what we want.
As a life long conservative, I’ve always been a Bill Maher fan. His social policies and progressive altruism I disagree with but he’s an old school liberal, and hasn’t changed even with woke leftism. He has courage. You go Bill, I’d vote for you if you ever ran nationally simply because you’re consistent.
I’m a liberal who would prefer a fascist state to a woke progressive cesspool.
Bill Maher Altruism? Are you serious he made the most Altruistic UA-camr out to be a planet killing clout chaser. You proved exactly what we already knew you don't want politicians you want reality stars.
@@svtinker LOL I would never go that far. Sometimes you need to stop saying dumb stuff because both are the same. A fascist state is not different from a woke cesspool you clown
@@ngarumurray, thanks for the laugh!
bill maher is perfect for conservatives and neolibs
Great job with this monologue. I'm a millennial but I see the hypocrisy with my generation.
Absolutely brilliant!!!! ♥️♥️♥️
As usual the end of new rules is the best part of the show . always outstanding . the phone thing reminds me of that bumper sticker that people obsessed with guns put on their vehicles, that says, "I'll give you my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands" . just replace the word gun with phone, and it could easily pertain to today's youth.
And yet I always see more boomers in the comments section of every video....seems more like hypocritical projection. Typical of people their age.
You want to see cellphone abuse, simply step into any public high school classroom. Hard to teach someone who is fatally addicted to their cellphone.
@@jeremyramey3221 i personally blame us boomers for not beating some sense into our children like our parents did. instead we felt picked on so we babied our babies all the way to adulthood and got children like you
@@dizzug4058 I am a boomer jackazz. What you did with your children was let them be raised by teachers and the TV. You barely paid any attention to them at all because you were too involved with your own self centered entitled life.
Your kids hate you for it. There isn't a single generation more "entitled" than ours.
I love watching boomers and millennials yell at each other. Not knowing who's the boomer and who's the millennial,...its awesome.
,...and then there's the poor forgotten gen-xer in the middle. 😆
Beautifully expressed, Bill!
Now when someone says "Ok, Boomer" I just reply, "That's right, Kylie." 😘
Ok boomer
That's right Kylie.
I went back to college as a non traditional student. I offered one of my classmates $100 cash if she would turn off her phone and let me keep it for her for half a day.
She said yes. She turned off her phone and handed it to me. Barely 10 minutes later she wanted her phone back in a very desperate way. So I gave it to her and she lost the easiest $100 she would have ever made.
That was great once again!
You still got it, Bill and I‘m happy about that❣️
4:00 : Bill (or whoever writes his jokes) is 100% correct - all generations push problems down the road.
Inviting serious and thoughtful intellectuals - instead of pols and pundits - is what makes this show unique. Glenn Loury (Brown econ professor, MIT PhD) and John John McWhorter (Linguistics professor at Columbia) in particular. It's lost on the studio audience, of course, but the common sense and wisdom these two men bring to the discussion is truly breathtaking (not to mention their polite demeanor). More please...
Yes, whenever he invites an actor, musician, or some other "celebrity" from the entertainment business I am less interested in what they have to say than when he brings on true academics and genuine experts of their field.
Unfortunately Maher kinda brings the conversation a couple notches lower tho.
McWhorter needs to let go of his ridiculous idea that America is a racist country. In another interview, when asked for evidence, after thinking, he came up with our schools are racist as white teachers are still resentful of desegregation. Oooookaaaay. But at least he recognizes the community's role in its own problems. Baby steps.
@@aljirou29 The country getting more racist and especially more openly racist was something I saw and felt happen as a reaction to Obama being elected. So much so I was worried and fully expecting the country to suddenly become way more openly misogynistic after Hillary Clinton's election that ended up not happening. But its hard to think it could have been worse than the Trump years were anyway.
@@aljirou29 America is a highly racist country, and we should admit it LOUDLY to be capable of making it less racist step by step since it cannot be done from evening to morning.
And you need proof, yeah...? Ok, I'll give you one.
One of the best proof is Michael Jackson. Super rich and ultra-successful. Regardless of that, what he wanted most was - to be WHITE.
It probably was because to be black is "AWESOME" in this country, right...
And if you need some other one, like REAL PROOF, then go to some good make-up artist and let him/her make you a black guy. And do it every day for 365 days at least.
Live like a black in some average neighborhood in some red state. And after that year, come back, and then we will talk about racism...
And you will explain to us all how America is not a racist country.
I cannot wait for how "funny" your stories will be, of course, if you will make it since it can happen (just accidentally, of course) that you become a new George Floyd, Ahmaund Arbery, or Botham Jean. He just sat in his apartment eating ice cream when the policeman killed him, considering his apartment to be hers. How is it possible that never ever happened to anybody who is white...?!
You are bling and deaf, man. You don't need proof; you need a good ophthalmologist and ORL doctor; make the appointments.
Super good way of saying that bill! I was laughing big time 🤣
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU, Bill! I'm 33 and know that our generation is plenty old enough that we are just as culpable as the older generation. The waste and gluttony that millennials have in their lives should be criminal. People think "doing something" is just retweeting and sharing posts on Twitter and Facebook. Which does nothing. Or at least, not as much as actually doing something would do.
Yeah except millennial aren't as responsible. Boomers decimated out planet and did nothing but blame younger generations while they were sitting on their greedy excessive lives.
Someone who is 33 isn't really a 'young person' and really people like comparing Greta's generation to anyone past their mid 20 isn't fair. We have had a chance to actually do something. They haven't. More to the point, considering how limited in influence and power the young are and the fact that there is such massive inertia on actually dealing with it there is a question on what really impactful they can do. Frankly it is on their elders to actually give them some hope and direction and we have blatently failed in that regard.
@John Wright Democrats aren’t moving the goal posts. Repuglicans are just ignoring the science like they always do & holding back progress.
@@brynphillips9957 no no no, just blame the young, it's obviously their fault according to Bill.
@@coolcat6303 Democrats are the ones saying there is no difference between a man and a woman and that solar and wind are viable energy alternatives. In both cases, the science disagrees with them. The Republicans are right on this one.