When radicals on both political sides resort to attacks on energy infrastructure to advance their ideologies, western civilization is headed for a dark place.
I really hate how the political debate around climate change has changed into: it doesn’t exist so we don’t do anything versus it does exist and everybody will die so lets screw over poor people now and lets not be reasonable about this.
We should take action. We should have started action years ago but we ignore the problem and apply the worst solutions at the same time.
All of this was presaged by the Unibomber. One of the streaming services (I think Netflix) has a four part documentary about him. He was a big fan of Earth First, although not a member for fear of attracting attention. The documentary notes he sought out a sex change operation in the 60’s or early ‘70s. Everything old is new again.
We've been headed for a "Dark Place" since James Hansen et al used stagecraft to artificially warm the congressional hearing room for his since-debunked "runaway warming" presentation in 1988.
But it actually goes back farther than that, to 1969-1970 and the egregious fear-mongering by both Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" and "Dr." Paul Ehrlich's "Population Bomb", both of which have proven spectacularly wrong in hindsight.
The political left is emboldened in this new century, and the are using the guise of "Climate Change" to go after every single thing they've ever hated, from meat to Capitalism, and they are simply not going to stop until they are stopped, by overwhelming physical force.
COVID gave them wings, as they saw they could use raw fear to cow even once-fiercely freedom-loving Americans into submission, and they are on a new mission.
This will not end well for civilization as a whole, no matter who strikes first.
Once the electorate bought into the "Precautionary Principle" wrt climate, Covid-19(84) or something like it was a foregone conclusion. Create fear so govt. will save you is a bronchitis for a civil society. If not worse.
I imagine that you have, as it was the Genesis of the mess we currently find ourselves embroiled in. And since I've only been reading you for a couple of months, I missed all that, sadly.
Everything that has transpired in this new century is textbook Hegelian Dialectic, where the elites thrust a problem onto the masses with their preconceived solution already in their back pocket.
Note how climate change "mitigation" strategies are built around the number of lives it will save from that boogeyman, because climate kills, dontcha know.
Good stuff in both of those, and the PFAS post with its references to DDT reminded me of the late Professor J. Gordon Edwards eating a spoonful of DDT occasionally for decades to prove to his students that it was harmless.
We need more people of that mold among us today, thanks for doing your part in his absence!
For me, there are indeed 'some useful idiots', maybe lots infact, who do believe we are in an existential crisis, there are even more who pretend to believe it because they want to signal some public virtue at the lowest possible personal cost (you can tell who these are when you look at how they live their life with mobile phone, laptop and flat screen tv). And then there are the dangerous Cabal who want to tear down Capitalism at all costs.
Robert Conquest wrote about the communists who finally gave up on the overwhelmingly catastrophic news emanating from Russia, China etc in the 1970s and chose environmentalism as the Trojan Horse hiding Marxism.
The Frankfurt School adapted Marx’s theories on revolution to include Freud’s theory of the subconscious. The Cultural Marxists’ main focus was to reshape the subconscious of Western men and women and thus create new type of person: one who would react passively to provocations of all kinds.
Cultural Marxists encourage abortion, birth control, divorce, homosexuality, “carrier women,” drugs, miscegenation, the destruction of the traditional family, and unrestricted immigration of racial foreigners into white countries. This is a reflection of what the Cultural Marxists preach: white reproduction is evil, and that which prevents white reproduction is good.
Your third is the our second, the group noted in this piece.
Our third group is a very small group of highly informed (many credentialed scientists) whose personal beliefs are that we are, indeed, in an existential environmental and climate crisis.
This third group we do not denigrate (as long as they hold these beliefs absent political activism of a certain type), we simply disagree with.
The first two groups are going to decide the future of Western civilization.
I really hate how the political debate around climate change has changed into: it doesn’t exist so we don’t do anything versus it does exist and everybody will die so lets screw over poor people now and lets not be reasonable about this.
We should take action. We should have started action years ago but we ignore the problem and apply the worst solutions at the same time.
All of this was presaged by the Unibomber. One of the streaming services (I think Netflix) has a four part documentary about him. He was a big fan of Earth First, although not a member for fear of attracting attention. The documentary notes he sought out a sex change operation in the 60’s or early ‘70s. Everything old is new again.
Creepy!
Am I naïve to believe that "this too shall pass?"
Think few have the "courage" to try to be this malevolent. On the other hand, spurs copy cats and no shortage of nihilistic rage circulating.
Hard to say.
We've been headed for a "Dark Place" since James Hansen et al used stagecraft to artificially warm the congressional hearing room for his since-debunked "runaway warming" presentation in 1988.
But it actually goes back farther than that, to 1969-1970 and the egregious fear-mongering by both Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" and "Dr." Paul Ehrlich's "Population Bomb", both of which have proven spectacularly wrong in hindsight.
The political left is emboldened in this new century, and the are using the guise of "Climate Change" to go after every single thing they've ever hated, from meat to Capitalism, and they are simply not going to stop until they are stopped, by overwhelming physical force.
COVID gave them wings, as they saw they could use raw fear to cow even once-fiercely freedom-loving Americans into submission, and they are on a new mission.
This will not end well for civilization as a whole, no matter who strikes first.
We've written about most of these things.
Once the electorate bought into the "Precautionary Principle" wrt climate, Covid-19(84) or something like it was a foregone conclusion. Create fear so govt. will save you is a bronchitis for a civil society. If not worse.
I imagine that you have, as it was the Genesis of the mess we currently find ourselves embroiled in. And since I've only been reading you for a couple of months, I missed all that, sadly.
Everything that has transpired in this new century is textbook Hegelian Dialectic, where the elites thrust a problem onto the masses with their preconceived solution already in their back pocket.
Note how climate change "mitigation" strategies are built around the number of lives it will save from that boogeyman, because climate kills, dontcha know.
They sicken me to the core.
Don’t fret. You didn’t miss. It’s all there (till the Organs disappear it…).
We noted Malthus and Ehrlich here > https://envmental.substack.com/p/the-population-bombing
Carson here > https://envmental.substack.com/p/politics-fear-and-science-pfas
(Started in December. We’re just getting our shoes broken in…. Thanks for reading!)
Good stuff in both of those, and the PFAS post with its references to DDT reminded me of the late Professor J. Gordon Edwards eating a spoonful of DDT occasionally for decades to prove to his students that it was harmless.
We need more people of that mold among us today, thanks for doing your part in his absence!
Good note about Prof Edwards. That's an interesting and non-trivial element of that whole debacle. But the human toll (malaria) ......
Ah, but the human malaria toll makes the misanthropes in the green movement the happiest of all!
Well, that and the COVID "Vaccince" toll......
Excellent! Thanks for the links, I'll do some retro-reading and get caught up on your take on those hot messes.
Thanks for putting out such a great blog! I look forward to your posts weekly, please keep 'em coming.
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For me, there are indeed 'some useful idiots', maybe lots infact, who do believe we are in an existential crisis, there are even more who pretend to believe it because they want to signal some public virtue at the lowest possible personal cost (you can tell who these are when you look at how they live their life with mobile phone, laptop and flat screen tv). And then there are the dangerous Cabal who want to tear down Capitalism at all costs.
Robert Conquest wrote about the communists who finally gave up on the overwhelmingly catastrophic news emanating from Russia, China etc in the 1970s and chose environmentalism as the Trojan Horse hiding Marxism.
The Frankfurt School adapted Marx’s theories on revolution to include Freud’s theory of the subconscious. The Cultural Marxists’ main focus was to reshape the subconscious of Western men and women and thus create new type of person: one who would react passively to provocations of all kinds.
Cultural Marxists encourage abortion, birth control, divorce, homosexuality, “carrier women,” drugs, miscegenation, the destruction of the traditional family, and unrestricted immigration of racial foreigners into white countries. This is a reflection of what the Cultural Marxists preach: white reproduction is evil, and that which prevents white reproduction is good.
https://nordicresistancemovement.org/what-is-cultural-marxism/
We put the first two in the same group.
Your third is the our second, the group noted in this piece.
Our third group is a very small group of highly informed (many credentialed scientists) whose personal beliefs are that we are, indeed, in an existential environmental and climate crisis.
This third group we do not denigrate (as long as they hold these beliefs absent political activism of a certain type), we simply disagree with.
The first two groups are going to decide the future of Western civilization.