In this YouTube commentary, Dennis Prager introduces a clip of Hubert Keller, a founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF), who claims that coffee production emits 15‑20 tons of CO₂ per ton of coffee and that monoculture coffee farms are vulnerable to climate change. Prager questions the logic of the claim, interpreting it as part of a broader climate‑change agenda that he characterises as a “war on joy” and a “religious cult.” He argues that discouraging coffee consumption would harm millions of poor coffee‑growing families in Africa and Latin America, and he frames the WEF’s stance as an elitist, anti‑pleasure ideology that would force workers into other industries such as battery production. Throughout, Prager juxtaposes personal liberty and enjoyment (coffee, meat, suburban living) against what he sees as fanatical environmentalism, suggesting that the climate movement seeks to limit ordinary pleasures under the guise of ecological concern.
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There's now— so is he a— he's a World Economic Forum founder named Hubert Keller. And my producer said to me he came out against coffee drinking. And the question was— the question posed to me was, can you guess why? Without Well, I may have taken a breath. I can't say without taking a breath. I might have breathed. I might have inhaled. But that would have been the entirety of the moment. I said it has to do clearly with climate change, global warming. And surely it does. And here it is. Oh, so let's hear, let's hear that clip, Sean.
We'll be having our coffee before the session and you raised the coffee example. I'd love just to give you the chance to expand on that. Basically, the coffee that we all drink emits between 15 and 20 tons of CO2 per ton of coffee. So we should all know that this is every time we drink coffee, we are basically putting CO2 into the atmosphere. The other and one of the reasons is because most of the coffee plantation or most of the coffee is produced through monoculture and monoculture is also affected by climate change. The quality of these nature assets is deteriorating quite rapidly.
You ask if it makes sense to me. I can't think of something more logical. By the way, the issue is not for me, does it make sense? Let us say it is true that for every ton of coffee coffee produced, extracted, whatever the term, a ton of CO2 is emitted. So what is he proposing? That we not drink coffee, presumably, or we drink very little. So once again, one of the, one of the joys that life, which is difficult for most people, have, or many people have, is coffee drinking. But not only that, because it is a war on joy. These people are— it is a religious cult, the climate change cult. It's all it is, is a cult. And one of the consequences of not drinking coffee is a serious number of poor people will be ruined. Coffee is not produced in Midtown Manhattan. We get it from Africa, we get it from Latin America. These, these people, there are— coffee is a huge industry, a source of income for the poor. So this rich Frenchman is saying put these people out of work. What does he, what does he recommend that they do? Produce car batteries? The war on joy, the auto, the house, the suburban house, the farm, the war on meat eating, the war on joy is very, very much a religious impulse. It is characteristic of the fanatic. That you can't— you should not enjoy life that much. One of the divisions in the religious world, whatever the religion is, is between those who think you should enjoy life as best and as much as possible, and those who associate joy, pleasure, certainly physical pleasure, with sin. Are the fanatics of any— every religion. Every religion has it.
