Star Trek actor William Shatner told NBC News on Monday that there’s no point in going into space if we “can’t come back” to Earth due to the environment. [emphasis, links added]
NBC‘s Maura Barrett pressed Shatner with a climate change question on Monday during a television interview about the solar eclipse.
Barrett asked Shatner about the concern of tackling climate change on Earth “rather than going out and exploring space.”
“Well, you can do both,” Shatner said to Barrett.
He continued, “I mean, there’s a — but you have to have a focus on the most important part, which is staying alive. I mean, what’s the point of going into space, you can’t come back and you are overcome by the fumes. No — we are in a dire situation.”
“We’ve got to do both. We’ve got to clean up the environment and our curiosity and our ambition,” the television star added in a sit-down interview.
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Barrett closed her report on NBC with a mention of the solar eclipse.
“So, that’s just something to think about. We also talked about how this is going to be such an emotional, unifying experience as thousands of people all look up to the sky at the same time,” she said.
The View’s Sunny Hostin also brought up climate change during a discussion about the solar eclipse in which she speculated that there was a relationship between the eclipse, cicadas, earthquakes, and the climate.
The solar eclipse is when the moon passes between Earth and the Sun in space as a regular natural occurrence that has been documented since ancient civilizations before the Industrial Revolution.
Read more at Washington Examiner
I watched the eclipse . Clear blue sky was remarkable. No pollution. The enviro-whiners just know it’s there. It’s wherever they go. Not one of them mentioned the volume of traffic linked to this frivolous event. We had traffic jams on back roads when it was over.
Please read the Prime Directive, Captain
This is a perfect example of liberals doing the very thing they accuse of others. The only possible result of moving to wind and solar power is to make energy scarce, expensive, and unreliable. This will result in unemployment, a depressed economy, and lower standard of living. Reducing land area for agriculture, reducing fertilizers and pesticides threatens us with food shortages. On the other hand, looking at the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, there is no indication that we have a climate crisis. Such predictions are not new and have continuously failed.
The SPACE between William Shatner’s ( and the other libs) ears.. the Final Frontier!!
Education, per Wikipedia:
Shatner attended two schools in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Willingdon Elementary School[20] and West Hill High School,[21] and is an alumnus of the Montreal Children’s Theatre.[22] He studied economics at the McGill University Faculty of Management in Montreal, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1952.[23] In 2011, McGill University awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Letters.[24] He was granted the same accolade by the New England Institute of Technology in May 2018.[25]
I guess he’s as ‘qualified’ as any other “name” to comment on global warming.