Posted on
September 30, 2023
Insanity Vs. Insincerity
Eco-kooks expose the eco-phonies
by
Daniel
Clark
A lot of anger has been directed at environmental
activists who have engaged in attention-grabbing craziness, such as splashing
soup on priceless works of art, or delaying sporting events by gluing
themselves to the floor. Well, it's long
past time for us to get a lot angrier at those people who are doing
far greater damage on behalf of the green agenda, without even believing their
own apocalyptic warnings.
To
those who truly believe that human activity has pushed the earth to the brink
of destruction, engaging in desperate, high-profile acts of stupidity just to
make their message heard is an entirely rational thing to do. It only strikes the rest of us as ridiculous
because, for all the lip service people pay to "saving the planet," most people
don't really believe that kind of twaddle, least of all the leaders of the
movement. When it comes to political
hypocrites, even gun control activists and opponents of school choice have got
nothing on the greenies.
If those who count themselves among "the scientific
consensus" really believed that so benign a substance as carbon dioxide was an
imminent threat to the earth, they would not be repeatedly jetting around from
all corners of the world to attend climate conferences to harrumph at each
other in person, when video conferencing would be no less productive. They would not go on speaking tours of
universities, when modern communications technology provides far greater
audiences without the travel.
Al Gore would not have sold out his Current TV cable
network to "big oil," in the form of Qatari-based Al-Jazeera. The Obamas would not have purchased multiple
beachfront properties while at the same time warning that rising ocean levels
were about to make them disappear. The Paris
Climate Accord would be consistent in its requirements, while demanding immediate
and total compliance, instead of relying on each nation's voluntary adherence
to ill-defined goals of its own choosing, which means letting leading CO2
emitters China and India off without any commitments whatsoever.
The
young lunatics who are running around committing outrageous acts of buffoonery
are only doing so because their alarmist leaders have brainwashed them since
birth. Their education since elementary
school has been saturated with paranoia about climate change, nee global
warming, even in math class. This
indoctrination has been reinforced by children's TV shows, animated features,
and big tech companies that screen out contrary facts and opposing points of
view. Nobody told them, for instance,
that the percentage of the atmosphere that consists of CO2 is both minuscule
and wildly variable. They've been convinced
instead that the atmosphere is just bursting with CO2, and that its chemical
makeup is in a state of precarious balance that we are tasked with
sustaining. They really believe that the
earth and all its creatures are living on borrowed time, and why not? Bill Nye, who plays a smart person on TV, has
told them so.
Tragic as it would be for a Van Gogh masterpiece to be
destroyed by a misguided activist, what the leaders of the movement are doing
in pursuit of their Marxist agenda is infinitely worse. They are knowingly causing energy shortages
by taking away those sources that are abundant and cost-effective, while
promising to replace them with wind and solar power, which we don't even have
the technological capability to store until we need them. They are deliberately retarding the world's
food supply, by trying to stamp out commercial farming, on the basis that the
earth cannot withstand the mass production of livestock. They tell us in all earnestness that we
need to make a habit of eating bugs instead.
In order to control "land use change," they seek to abolish property
rights. What's an inconvenient delay
during a basketball game compared to that?
Implementation of these grand schemes cannot possibly
be achieved before the doomsday clock expires.
If the immediacy of the threat is what they say it is, there isn't time
to gather the disparate peoples of the world under a single, totalitarian
entity. The true believers see this, but what do they know? Assuaging their fear is not the point, and
never has been.
The great threat to humanity is not the warming of the
earth, but the remedies that are being prescribed by the UN, the World Economic
Forum, and sympathetic leaders of nations.
The people whose destructive acts we desperately need to reject and
condemn are not the overzealous foot soldiers of the green movement, but the megalomaniacal
phonies who command it.
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