Environment on the Joe Rogan Experience

“Okay, it says World Health Organization estimates that. Sorry, it's 600,000, so I must have been citing figures over a decade. There is a part on here that say…”

Peterson claims WHO data shows over 90% of the world's children breathe toxic air and cites conflicting death tolls (600,000 vs up to 7 million per year) from air pollution.

“the united states has cut its carbon emissions 15% in the last 20 years it's gone down not up down why fracking fracking yeah fracking really”

Peterson claims the US has cut its carbon emissions by 15% over the last 20 years primarily due to fracking.

“A new global study concludes that 90% of all large fishes have disappeared from the world's oceans in the past half century in 50 years.”

A global study concluded that 90 percent of all large fish have disappeared from the world's oceans in the past 50 years.

“94% of all the big fish that are in the ocean are sucking them out in giant numbers, 94% of all the big fish that are in the ocean are gone over the last, you …”

Ninety-four percent of the big fish in the ocean are gone.

“You make marine protected areas like national parks that you need about 15% of the total coastal territory”

Peterson claims that protecting about 15% of total coastal territory as marine protected areas would solve the problem of depleted coastal fisheries.

“we've entered into 6X, the sixth greatest extinction event known in the history of life on this planet. We've had two other extinction events from asteroid imp…”

Stamets claims we are currently in the sixth mass extinction event and that the prior two mass extinctions were caused by asteroid impacts 250 million and 65 million years ago.

“So they took male frogs, gave them atrazine, 10% of them turned into female and produced fertile eggs. And we're subjecting our children to exposure to that ev…”

Kennedy claims a study found the herbicide atrazine turned 10% of male frogs into fertile females, and implies children face equivalent daily exposure risk.

“And second, if you're concerned about pollution, especially particulate pollution, especially indoors, which kills, I think, 7 million children a year.”

Peterson claims indoor particulate pollution from wood/biomass burning kills 7 million children per year worldwide.