1 00:00:15,100 --> 00:00:17,570 This is Rap News, adjust your mental tuning. 2 00:00:17,670 --> 00:00:20,128 Hello, fellow children of the industrial revolution. 3 00:00:20,228 --> 00:00:22,736 We've come of age, but our age seems to be running out of steam 4 00:00:22,836 --> 00:00:25,093 ...as well as oil, coal, gas, water and old trees. 5 00:00:25,193 --> 00:00:27,872 We face a crisis: in spite of our advancement and science, 6 00:00:27,972 --> 00:00:30,510 the ratio of Energy expended to Energy actually required 7 00:00:30,610 --> 00:00:33,369 is rapidly declining, just as it did for the Romans, Mayans, 8 00:00:33,469 --> 00:00:35,927 and the Easter Islanders, before they crashed and expired. 9 00:00:36,027 --> 00:00:38,228 Has our brief joyride passed its peak on the axis? 10 00:00:38,328 --> 00:00:40,822 And does anyone know how to get off it before it collapses? 11 00:00:40,922 --> 00:00:42,681 With not much time left to get some answers, 12 00:00:42,781 --> 00:00:46,141 we turn to our leading nations. Speaking for America, General Baxter. 13 00:00:46,241 --> 00:00:48,885 - Bob, This is an era of toil; we've reached Peak Oil. 14 00:00:48,985 --> 00:00:51,160 We now need more energy to retrieve oil from the soil 15 00:00:51,260 --> 00:00:53,196 than we receive from the oil we retrieve, 16 00:00:53,296 --> 00:00:56,435 which means more recessions: Prepare for GFC3! 17 00:00:56,535 --> 00:00:59,197 Can we survive this energy crisis? - Why yes! 18 00:00:59,297 --> 00:01:01,782 Yes, we Ameri-Can! Obama is wise and far-sighted 19 00:01:01,882 --> 00:01:03,817 and he's about to ratify this futuristic device 20 00:01:03,917 --> 00:01:04,979 - A pipe... - Yes! 21 00:01:05,079 --> 00:01:07,145 The KeystoneXL Pipeline, to be precise; which 22 00:01:07,245 --> 00:01:09,571 will move more crude from Mordor, er the Tar Sands, 23 00:01:09,671 --> 00:01:13,120 to Isengard, streaming under large tracts of aquifers and farmlands 24 00:01:13,220 --> 00:01:14,386 - Is that safe? - It's fine! 25 00:01:14,486 --> 00:01:17,171 it's only leaked twelve times so far, man; we just pay the fines! 26 00:01:17,271 --> 00:01:19,891 Right... But how does this solve the peak oil crisis you described? 27 00:01:19,991 --> 00:01:22,423 - Uh... err... JOBS, Bob; think of the JOBS it will provide. 28 00:01:22,523 --> 00:01:24,697 And we'll never depend on foreign oil in the future 29 00:01:24,797 --> 00:01:27,211 ...You don't want us to have to go to war again do ya?! 30 00:01:27,311 --> 00:01:29,813 - Oh, yeah, you Americans love the war. 31 00:01:29,913 --> 00:01:32,779 - Ah, here's the next powerful nation to show us the course 32 00:01:32,879 --> 00:01:34,584 China's Minister for Energy, Wai So Dim 33 00:01:34,684 --> 00:01:37,461 - Ni Hao, Robert! - Thanks for beaming in. How's Beijing? 34 00:01:37,561 --> 00:01:40,497 - yeah pretty great! As you can see, fresh clean air [cough] to breathe in 35 00:01:40,597 --> 00:01:42,692 everyone healthy [cough cough] - life amazing.---- 36 00:01:42,792 --> 00:01:45,400 But, Co[ugh]fucious say: whole world need to quit coal now 37 00:01:45,500 --> 00:01:47,711 - Profound! And how do you plan to bring that about? 38 00:01:47,811 --> 00:01:49,622 - By burning up all the coal that's left! 39 00:01:49,722 --> 00:01:52,942 We call it 'One Coal Policy' --- it total success--- 40 00:01:53,042 --> 00:01:55,659 So unlike the US, we never need go to war - Wanna bet? 41 00:01:55,759 --> 00:01:58,483 What about Tibet? - We do hear calls to 'Free Tibet'? 42 00:01:58,583 --> 00:02:00,784 - Correct, for China Tibet WAS Free 43 00:02:00,884 --> 00:02:03,395 yeah, so important part of our Free Energy policy 44 00:02:03,495 --> 00:02:04,882 make Tibet our colony; 45 00:02:04,982 --> 00:02:07,838 lots of copper, oil and possibly best combustible fuel of all: 46 00:02:07,938 --> 00:02:09,095 monks in the monastery 47 00:02:09,195 --> 00:02:11,122 - We've heard the solutions of the super-powers, 48 00:02:11,222 --> 00:02:13,804 what about the super-rich? Have they got some newer answers? 49 00:02:13,904 --> 00:02:16,176 Our next guests, discussing these pressing matters, 50 00:02:16,276 --> 00:02:18,725 are entrepreneurs, Elon Musk and Richard Branson 51 00:02:18,825 --> 00:02:20,938 - Yo, Richard - What's really good, Elon 52 00:02:21,038 --> 00:02:23,452 - Let's flip the script - And show these peons the high-tech shift 53 00:02:23,552 --> 00:02:24,833 - That we be on; we're beyond 54 00:02:24,933 --> 00:02:26,585 - Two debonaire billionaires - Rockin' recon 55 00:02:26,685 --> 00:02:29,108 - Humanity's last best hope for this eon. 56 00:02:29,208 --> 00:02:30,356 And yo, Musk - What up 57 00:02:30,456 --> 00:02:31,737 - I think it's time that you bust 58 00:02:31,837 --> 00:02:34,118 and show the peeps on earth how it's time to adjust 59 00:02:34,218 --> 00:02:36,932 - So check it, Elon Musk, live and direct from Mars 60 00:02:37,032 --> 00:02:39,543 I gave the home planet Solar Panels and Tesla Cars 61 00:02:39,650 --> 00:02:40,809 Electrical - Hmmm! 62 00:02:40,909 --> 00:02:42,287 - Ethical ecological miracle - Yeah! 63 00:02:42,387 --> 00:02:44,978 super - charged - super - design - super - refined - super - billionaire 64 00:02:45,078 --> 00:02:47,162 Fuelin em with lithium - On Fire - killing em 65 00:02:47,262 --> 00:02:49,802 So it's high time we colonise the solar system then 66 00:02:49,902 --> 00:02:51,254 Hey yo, Branson - Sir Richard! 67 00:02:51,354 --> 00:02:53,015 - You ready for action? - Born ready 68 00:02:53,115 --> 00:02:54,900 - Tell the people of Earth your plan then 69 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,184 - Let's get it cracking, we're planning on capturing 70 00:02:57,284 --> 00:02:59,848 asteroids with nanodroids and then dragging them back in 71 00:02:59,948 --> 00:03:02,335 to orbit earth so we can mine the fuck out of them 72 00:03:02,435 --> 00:03:05,351 for cobalt, zinc, gold, platinum - Just suck it outta them 73 00:03:05,451 --> 00:03:07,974 - And make a quick buck out of them - Isn't that dangerous? 74 00:03:08,074 --> 00:03:10,629 what if an asteroid crashed on Earth, because you miscalculated this? 75 00:03:10,729 --> 00:03:13,293 - Unfortunate, but... - By then I'll have my fortress on Mars 76 00:03:13,393 --> 00:03:16,630 - I'll use Virgin Galactic to stay in orbit. - So long suckers! 77 00:03:16,730 --> 00:03:18,622 - Good to know we can count on your resourcefulness, guys. 78 00:03:18,722 --> 00:03:20,834 What other energy sources can we find? 79 00:03:20,934 --> 00:03:23,392 Terence Moonseed, what's your view of this scene? 80 00:03:23,492 --> 00:03:25,443 - The Illuminati are suppressing the truth from the feed 81 00:03:25,543 --> 00:03:27,269 To lock us in and make it impossible to be free 82 00:03:27,369 --> 00:03:29,190 from the colossal fossil fool industry 83 00:03:29,290 --> 00:03:31,190 But I have one word for you, Robert: FREE ENERGY! 84 00:03:31,290 --> 00:03:33,253 this whole fricking system could readily depend 85 00:03:33,353 --> 00:03:36,280 On a blend of Lemurian crystals, alien technology and hemp 86 00:03:36,380 --> 00:03:39,006 But the rotten cotton industry conspired to have hemp condemned 87 00:03:39,106 --> 00:03:41,599 and the government kept UFO tech for weapons instead 88 00:03:41,699 --> 00:03:44,335 And then? - then climate scientists who owe their degrees to industry 89 00:03:44,435 --> 00:03:46,866 invented climate change to make energy fees increase 90 00:03:46,990 --> 00:03:49,176 when all energy should be available only for free. 91 00:03:49,276 --> 00:03:52,079 Global warming is a hoax! - Err... I ah totally agree... 92 00:03:52,179 --> 00:03:55,000 - Speaking of outlandish solutions for the crisis we're having 93 00:03:55,100 --> 00:03:56,921 Prime Minister of Australia, Tony Abbott. 94 00:03:57,021 --> 00:03:59,497 - The Science is OUT: Since I assumed this leader position, 95 00:03:59,597 --> 00:04:02,258 Straya's heard no bad news from the climate commission 96 00:04:02,358 --> 00:04:04,268 - Because you abol... - BECAUSE I ABOLISHED it! 97 00:04:04,368 --> 00:04:07,551 we'll also hear a lot less from the Ah Tarkine Forest and 98 00:04:07,651 --> 00:04:09,853 The reef, renewable energy... - Mining companies? 99 00:04:09,953 --> 00:04:12,756 - What is this the ABC? Don't make me cut your funding. 100 00:04:12,856 --> 00:04:15,349 Hey, in Straya deadly bush fires are part of the deal 101 00:04:15,449 --> 00:04:17,996 - And this fake snow in the US is geo-engineered to kill! 102 00:04:18,096 --> 00:04:20,448 - I don't trust climate scientists - they clearly just shill 103 00:04:20,548 --> 00:04:22,041 - Curious that opposite sides can believe... 104 00:04:22,141 --> 00:04:23,501 - Climate Change is not real!! 105 00:04:23,601 --> 00:04:25,298 - We've heard theorems, challenges and thoughts from 106 00:04:25,398 --> 00:04:27,830 entrepreneurs, free thinkers, and leaders on this forum 107 00:04:27,930 --> 00:04:30,600 yet time's up and we still seem stalled with no way forward. 108 00:04:30,759 --> 00:04:33,317 But wait! We're getting a call on the Juice Channeling Portal! 109 00:04:33,494 --> 00:04:35,654 I'll turn it up... who's trying to confer with us? 110 00:04:35,754 --> 00:04:38,221 - Helio. - Wait... is that... Copernicus? 111 00:04:38,321 --> 00:04:40,027 - Kan you hear me? - For certain, but 112 00:04:40,127 --> 00:04:43,001 What have you got to say on the energy crisis concerning us? 113 00:04:43,101 --> 00:04:45,983 - Vell... I wrote this book it in fifteen-forty-three 114 00:04:46,083 --> 00:04:48,497 In which I proposed the heliocentric theory 115 00:04:48,597 --> 00:04:51,498 - Yes, we know... the sun at the centre... - and the earth moves around it. 116 00:04:51,598 --> 00:04:54,029 - Revolutionary... - But zee fools in my day refused to see. 117 00:04:54,129 --> 00:04:56,251 - Well, it took centuries, but now we do accept it 118 00:04:56,351 --> 00:04:58,827 - Nie, I see you noobs still not quite get it. 119 00:04:58,927 --> 00:05:01,340 which is why I, Copernicus, have returned to state this 120 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:04,367 - State what? - You are still living in the Dark Ages 121 00:05:04,467 --> 00:05:06,970 But the second heliocentric revolution is nigh. 122 00:05:07,070 --> 00:05:09,917 To discern your place in the cosmos you once shifted your minds 123 00:05:10,017 --> 00:05:12,112 You must do that again, when you think of energy source: 124 00:05:12,212 --> 00:05:14,414 the sun, not the earth is at the centre of the universe. 125 00:05:14,514 --> 00:05:17,264 - Of course, just as earth revolves around the sun in a cycle 126 00:05:17,364 --> 00:05:19,866 so must human life? - And it must happen at once: It's vital. 127 00:05:19,966 --> 00:05:22,141 It's your only hope of survival. - The signal's dying! 128 00:05:22,241 --> 00:05:24,823 - I must go now! Other planets need reminding. 129 00:05:24,923 --> 00:05:27,590 - Thank you, Copernicus, for returning with such force to provide us 130 00:05:27,690 --> 00:05:30,045 this urgent advice during this awesome crisis 131 00:05:30,145 --> 00:05:32,806 And to our guests, those invited and all who surprised us. 132 00:05:32,906 --> 00:05:35,267 Now a final thought before we end these tidings. 133 00:05:35,367 --> 00:05:37,905 Many of our problems do require resource findings, 134 00:05:38,005 --> 00:05:40,188 scientific advances, new tools and devices 135 00:05:40,288 --> 00:05:42,711 But this crisis requires a realignment of paradigm which 136 00:05:42,811 --> 00:05:45,319 has to happen, not in a lab but in our own minds... 137 00:05:45,419 --> 00:05:47,889 The second heliocentric revolution has already begun. 138 00:05:47,989 --> 00:05:50,774 Will we have time to effect this great shift vis-a-vis the sun? 139 00:05:50,874 --> 00:05:53,076 Or will we shun our star's light and fall into darkness? 140 00:05:53,176 --> 00:05:56,802 Join us next month as we search for more answers.