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The Politics of Climate Change: Green New Deal And Other Madness
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UN chief urges action to avert climate change ‘catastrophe’
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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, UAE Minister of State for Youth Affairs Shamma Al-Mazrui and UAE minister of climate change Thani Al-Zeyoudi chair a panel during the opening of the Abu Dhabi climate meeting Summit on June 30, 2019 in Abu Dhabi. (AFP)
* The UN chief held out hope in the Paris Agreement to cut harmful emissions and reduce global warming.
* Under the Paris Agreement, the world is required to keep temperature rise under 2 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.
UN chief Antonio Guterres said climate-related devastation was striking the planet on a weekly basis and warned Sunday that urgent action must be taken to avoid a catastrophe.
“We are here because the world is facing a grave climate emergency,” Guterres told a two-day Abu Dhabi Climate Meeting to prepare for a Climate Action Summit in New York in September.
It is thought that $300 billion will be needed annually by 2030 to help nations deal with climate-related disasters.
US pressuring G20 allies on climate language — French official
US pressuring G20 allies on climate language — French official
Washington is opposed to any endorsement of the Paris climate deal, an agreement from which it plans to withdraw. (File/AFP)
Washington is pressuring allies at the G20 to reject strong climate change language in the meeting’s final statement, despite furious opposition from EU countries, a French presidential source said Friday.
“Three or four (countries) are under American pressure to water down the message,” a French presidency source told reporters in Osaka, where leaders of the Group of 20 are holding a two-day summit. The source declined to name the countries being targeted by Washington.
(Comment: All 50 States have military Superfund pollution sites as well as Guam, US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, etc. The US Military is in the habit of stonewalling and lying ... add 800+ Military bases World-wide. So, is "Climate Change and the Green New Deal" a gimmick created by the Pentagon as a slush fund - to cover it's costs in cleaning up it's Superfund sites in the United States and around the Globe? To achieve this directive, the Pentagon - to distance themselves and provide cover - convince an American ally France, to promote a theme on climate change by introducing "The Paris Agreement" with the United Nation's spearheading the promotion - internationally? Now, UN Chief Antonio Guterres has estimated $300 billion will be needed annually. (???) )
Filthy War Machine: US Military Industrial Complex, World’s Worst Polluter
https://earthfirstjournal.org/newsw...ary-industrial-complex-worlds-worst-polluter/
Back-dated Oct. 2, 2012
The United States Military, the Pentagon. Most fossil fuel burned, most greenhouse gases released, biggest source of Mercury released into the environment, biggest source of radiological (Uranium, Plutonium) releases and the biggest amount of HAZMAT materials released into rivers, lakes, oceans and the environment and the biggest discarder of medical waste pollution — worldwide.
Retired professor and prolific author Barry Sanders spent a long time looking closely at the US Military where others hadn’t: he looked at the environmental effects and the sheer devastation that the military leaves in its wake. He compiled a frightening collection of numbers into his book The Green Zone. The Earth First! Journal interviewed him back in 2009. The devastation continues. Tracy Turner relates in today’s OpEdNews article, Army That Poisons Together Metastasizes Together — Cruelly and Unusually, the ecological damage of the world’s most destructive force…
US Military pollution gets little notice, as the Pentagon is exempt from the US EPA-reporting criteria. Lead from firing ranges, Uranium from so-called “Depleted” Uranium munitions pollute land, lakes and streams and oceans both domestically and overseas; but the US military is exempt from US EPA Superfund regulations.
US Military Is The ‘World’s Largest Polluter’
US Military Is The ‘World’s Largest Polluter’
The US military is the biggest polluter both domestically and internationally, according to new report which warns that hundreds of American military bases across the world are “gravely contaminated.”
MintPress News reported this week that the US Defense Department alone produces more hazardous waste than the five largest US chemical companies combined, creating a toxic legacy across the world comprised of depleted uranium, oil, jet fuel, pesticides and defoliants like Agent Orange and lead.
According to the report, perchlorate and other chemical components of jet and rocket fuel leaking from US military bases has often contaminated sources of drinking water, groundwater resources, and soil.
Aside from military bases, there are around 1,200 military facilities scattered across the US that await decontamination under the so called Superfund program, a Federal cleanup initiative. Out of those, 900 have long been abandoned.
“Almost every military site in this country is seriously contaminated,” retired Michigan congressman and war veteran John D. Dingell told Newsweek in 2014, the same year the Pentagon admitted that it had to deal with 39,000 contaminated areas spread across 19 million acres just in the US.
Iraq is a more recent example. A research in 2010 revealed that the 2003 US invasion of Iraq and the following occupation of the country led to severe desertification of 90 percent of the land, turning the Arab country from a food exporter into a country that imports 80 percent of the food its people need.
Last week, the US Navy acknowledged that around an estimated 94,000 gallons of jet fuel had leaked from Virginia’s Naval Air Station Oceana into a nearby waterway.
And at the same time MSM and those so called climate activists keeps telling people; don't eat meat, don't drive car, don't use air conditioner etc etc in order to save the environment.
But now that the US military is in the cross hairs, the silents is deafening.
Today’s activism really is incredible shallow.
Or as Putin once said: I have a very positive attitude to anyone who is protecting the environment, but it's inadmissible when people are using it as a means of promoting themselves, using it as a source of self-enrichment.
I saw a link to this post below about EU countries now banning the use of gas in modern houses:
www.armstrongeconomics.com
I think the reply given in that post has some truth to it, especially since some of those environmentalists see human beings as a scourge of the earth.
If people are forced to only use electricity and with the closing of coal and nuclear powered installations, then it can only come from either gas powerplants or wind/solar, which will cause huge problems.
Europe Bans Natural Gas in New Homes | Armstrong Economics
COMMENT: Regarding: California Economy Declining Significantly In the Netherlands (Europe) the same. Gas not allowed for new homes. Now new homes are more than
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I think the reply given in that post has some truth to it, especially since some of those environmentalists see human beings as a scourge of the earth.
If people are forced to only use electricity and with the closing of coal and nuclear powered installations, then it can only come from either gas powerplants or wind/solar, which will cause huge problems.
...and what these geniuses don't realize is that for wind/solar to work at all, you NEED gas power plants, and lots of them, to balance the sporadic and chaotic energy output of these 'renewable' monsters.
I have an idea: how about we build tons of wind craft and solar, and have coal plants balance their erratic output - by putting the coal's turbines into idle gear whenever the wind blows and the sun shineth!
Okay, you might object that in this situation the renewables are completely superfluous, because we could just as well NOT put the coal plants' turbines into idle. But hey, look at the benefits:
The sad thing is that this idea probably won't land me a good job in the energy sector anytime soon, because I'm sure some of that is already best practice. We do live in an idiocracy, after all!
Okay, you might object that in this situation the renewables are completely superfluous, because we could just as well NOT put the coal plants' turbines into idle. But hey, look at the benefits:
- technically, the renewables do produce power in that situation, even though resources are wasted in the idle-running coal plants. This means that
- we can virtue-signal about producing X % of our energy with renewables!
- and we can get tons of subsidies for "green energy".
- we can also print brochures entitled "The Future is Green!"
- we create Jooobs in Green Tech, making wind turbines
more efficient(ah, they are already close to 100% efficiency...) cheaper by lobbying for more subsidies. - Maybe with enough subsidies, we can even find a way to make the wind blow steady and the sun shine at night! Come on, it's the fuuuture!
The sad thing is that this idea probably won't land me a good job in the energy sector anytime soon, because I'm sure some of that is already best practice. We do live in an idiocracy, after all!
There was a presentation of https://evolutionnews.org/2019/07/leveraging-environmentalism-to-impose-hegemonic-marxism/ with excerpts from an article in the The New Statesman by a British Journalist: Jamas Mason: My manifesto for a post-carbon future
The excerpts include:
In the original the article ends:
The excerpts include:
In the original the article ends:
The Manifesto above by John Mason sounds like a schizoidal declaration:
It is not based in reality with many massive holes in understanding both of the science but also of human nature. And not to mention that the above is not up for discussion as he sees climate crisis as unarguable.
It sounds as if he is ready to repeat the forced relocation as done during Soviet times, just on a much bigger scale as he is talking about the whole world economy. The goal justifies the means, so he is probably not too concerned with a few billion dead due to this enforced rule, that will lead to massive poverty and hunger and so much more. He might even be quite happy with such an outcome as it will help the goal of deep ecologists of reducing the world population to just 1 or 2 billion. The deep ecologist Eileen Crist says in an article about depopulation:
Yes, those annoying traffic jams caused by all those useless eaters. Better if they were 6 feet under and helping pushing up organic daisies.
One wonders if these people realize how genocidal their viewpoints are, but most likely they don't.
Eileen Crist is an associate professor at Virginia Tech and her bio from her website gives a picture of her views and interests:
It is much the line of modern environmentalism, that sees humans as the scourge of the earth, wishes to abandon modern agriculture and industry and rewild the earth. In such a scenario, the need for drastic measures like John Mason wrote in his manifesto is no doubt welcomed. So utopian nightmares are still in vogue and have plenty of devoted followers and not just school children.
Postmodernism, climate change, gender/identity politics are working wonders in distracting from globalisation, wars and psychopathy/ponerology.
It is not based in reality with many massive holes in understanding both of the science but also of human nature. And not to mention that the above is not up for discussion as he sees climate crisis as unarguable.
It sounds as if he is ready to repeat the forced relocation as done during Soviet times, just on a much bigger scale as he is talking about the whole world economy. The goal justifies the means, so he is probably not too concerned with a few billion dead due to this enforced rule, that will lead to massive poverty and hunger and so much more. He might even be quite happy with such an outcome as it will help the goal of deep ecologists of reducing the world population to just 1 or 2 billion. The deep ecologist Eileen Crist says in an article about depopulation:
Yes, those annoying traffic jams caused by all those useless eaters. Better if they were 6 feet under and helping pushing up organic daisies.
One wonders if these people realize how genocidal their viewpoints are, but most likely they don't.
Eileen Crist is an associate professor at Virginia Tech and her bio from her website gives a picture of her views and interests:
It is much the line of modern environmentalism, that sees humans as the scourge of the earth, wishes to abandon modern agriculture and industry and rewild the earth. In such a scenario, the need for drastic measures like John Mason wrote in his manifesto is no doubt welcomed. So utopian nightmares are still in vogue and have plenty of devoted followers and not just school children.
Postmodernism, climate change, gender/identity politics are working wonders in distracting from globalisation, wars and psychopathy/ponerology.
A couple more articles from those who wish for radical solutions.
Prominent German Economist Calls For 20-Hour Work Week, Less Housing, Real Role Models To Rescue Climate!
By P Gosselin on 24. July 2019
The online, center right Junge Freiheit of Germany here reports on how German award-winning economist Niko Paech is calling for a profound scaling back of industry in Germany, and a 20-hour workweek, in order to protect the climate.
The DLF article on the interview here summed it up: “If working hours and hence income were to fall, there would also be less need for mobility, consumption and housing. Unemployment would be overcome and everyone would have a livelihood based on a lower level of work.”
In the interview Paech spoke of rolling back the workweek to 30 or even 20 hours.
Communal living
So how would people spend all the extra free time?
Paech says the extra time could be used “to provide their own services, in addition to a less high income, for example cultivating food, the repair of goods and, thirdly, for communal use.”
This is how cars, lawnmowers or tools could be shared in the community, he suggests, which means “the demand form industrial production and transport would be decreased.”
People need to be turned off about “holiday flights, meat consumption, housing”
In the DLF interview he also criticized the construction of new housing in Germany: “Here every child knows that every square meter of living space that we develop is an ecological disaster.”
He added that a CO2 tax would only be effective if it “turned us off about holiday flights, meat consumption, housing, driving and excessive consumption.”
He also told the DLF there’s a need to start disputes among fellow citizens, saying: “that I tell my neighbor, listen, why did you book a cruise, who gives you the right to drive an SUV, why do you have to make a flight to the ski vacation, too?”
2 tonnes of CO2 per year
He also tells the DLF that every child needs to understand that in order to rescue the planet, every person should have two to two and a half tons of CO2 at their disposal every year.
He sees no chance of policymaking and technology ushering in the needed course change.
So what is needed to get society to change? It won’t be easy telling people to profoundly go without, so Paech tells the DLF it will take “a minority of people in Germany who are willing and able to live like this” and thus demonstrate “that it is possible”.
There’s no indication from the interview that Paech himself is setting an example and emitting only 2 tonnes of CO2 annually. And when we see the lifestyles of other leading activists calling for the same, then it all looks awfully hopeless for the global warmists’ movement.
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The call in the above article about radical changes mirrors Paul Masons manifesto above. Though I think reducing our consumer oriented society is a good idea in itself, I don't think it is done on the bases of lies and radical changes by a new virtue signalling elite. If Germany gets de-industrialised, then it will soon find itself on the level of a third world country, which will mean massive poverty and a reduction in life expectancy.
Another article is about a national German broadcaster which calls for people to be punished for sinning against the 'climate god'. Ok, that is my words to it, but they are not far from the original.
Overshoot Day: German ARD Public Television Calls For Consumers To Be Punished By “So Damn Expensive” Prices
By P Gosselin on 31. July 2019
Green hubris: ARD German public television commentary labels its audience “consumption addicts” – mentally ill – and pleads they be punished with “so damn expensive” prices.
Germany’s equivalent of the BBC, publicly (forced) funded ARD Broadcasting aired a commentary on Monday evening by journalist Lorenz Beckhardt. The commentary was to respond to the latest Earth Overshoot Day report. Beckhardt’s angry commentary was a scathing tirade against western society’s “addiction to consumerism” and an unveiled call for a collective punishment so harsh so as to lead to submission.
According to international sustainability organization Global Footprint Network, humanity has already used up nature’s resource budget for the entire year. According to the organization, this means that humanity needs almost 2 earths to satiate the human demand for her resources.
Over the years, Germany’s massive ARD public broadcasting network has increasingly moved to the left, and has since embraced extreme environmentalism and climate protection. And if anyone had any doubts about this, Beckhardt’s anti-free market tirade last Monday night puts these doubts to rest.
In his angry 1-min 41 sec. tirade, Beckhardt tells the audience how he’s fed up with hearing year after year how western societies are consuming way beyond the limits and that nothing is being done about it. He demands that policymakers take action to punish the ARD audience.
Consumption junkie
To drive home his point, Beckhardt admits how earlier in the evening he too had “a nice piece of meat on the grill” and that this is something he has “often”. He also tells the audience he often uses his car and flies all over the world because he loves coral reefs. He admits: “I’m a consumption junkie” and that he cannot help it.
He says he does it because “it’s fun, rewarding, enjoyment, lust and everyone else does it.” Next he indirectly calls the entire audience mentally ill, addicts who are in need of extremely harsh medicine.
Beckhardt’s “so damn expensive” medicine
Beckhardt then characterizes western consumption as a disease, telling the nationwide audience:
Here’s what the ARD and the Greens really want to say: “Make meat, car driving and flying so damn expensive that you all get yourselves off it. Please! Quickly! Then only the very rich, the elite and me – the ARD journalist – will afford it. The rest of you will live as peasants in serfdom.”
And if that doesn’t take the cake:
So the journalist makes a public confession of 'sinning' by eating meat, going on holidays and consuming, and then he aks the governments for punishment.
Again, globalisation and massive wars by the hegemon and its lackies is not even questioned. Instead, the call is to punish the little people so the rich and those who promote their views, such as Beckhardt can continue to live their current lifestyle of luxury while the rest of humanity is relegated to death, starvation and poverty, which will be the result of such radical action.
Prominent German Economist Calls For 20-Hour Work Week, Less Housing, Real Role Models To Rescue Climate!
By P Gosselin on 24. July 2019
The online, center right Junge Freiheit of Germany here reports on how German award-winning economist Niko Paech is calling for a profound scaling back of industry in Germany, and a 20-hour workweek, in order to protect the climate.
The DLF article on the interview here summed it up: “If working hours and hence income were to fall, there would also be less need for mobility, consumption and housing. Unemployment would be overcome and everyone would have a livelihood based on a lower level of work.”
In the interview Paech spoke of rolling back the workweek to 30 or even 20 hours.
Communal living
So how would people spend all the extra free time?
Paech says the extra time could be used “to provide their own services, in addition to a less high income, for example cultivating food, the repair of goods and, thirdly, for communal use.”
This is how cars, lawnmowers or tools could be shared in the community, he suggests, which means “the demand form industrial production and transport would be decreased.”
People need to be turned off about “holiday flights, meat consumption, housing”
In the DLF interview he also criticized the construction of new housing in Germany: “Here every child knows that every square meter of living space that we develop is an ecological disaster.”
He added that a CO2 tax would only be effective if it “turned us off about holiday flights, meat consumption, housing, driving and excessive consumption.”
He also told the DLF there’s a need to start disputes among fellow citizens, saying: “that I tell my neighbor, listen, why did you book a cruise, who gives you the right to drive an SUV, why do you have to make a flight to the ski vacation, too?”
2 tonnes of CO2 per year
He also tells the DLF that every child needs to understand that in order to rescue the planet, every person should have two to two and a half tons of CO2 at their disposal every year.
He sees no chance of policymaking and technology ushering in the needed course change.
So what is needed to get society to change? It won’t be easy telling people to profoundly go without, so Paech tells the DLF it will take “a minority of people in Germany who are willing and able to live like this” and thus demonstrate “that it is possible”.
There’s no indication from the interview that Paech himself is setting an example and emitting only 2 tonnes of CO2 annually. And when we see the lifestyles of other leading activists calling for the same, then it all looks awfully hopeless for the global warmists’ movement.
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The call in the above article about radical changes mirrors Paul Masons manifesto above. Though I think reducing our consumer oriented society is a good idea in itself, I don't think it is done on the bases of lies and radical changes by a new virtue signalling elite. If Germany gets de-industrialised, then it will soon find itself on the level of a third world country, which will mean massive poverty and a reduction in life expectancy.
Another article is about a national German broadcaster which calls for people to be punished for sinning against the 'climate god'. Ok, that is my words to it, but they are not far from the original.
Overshoot Day: German ARD Public Television Calls For Consumers To Be Punished By “So Damn Expensive” Prices
By P Gosselin on 31. July 2019
Green hubris: ARD German public television commentary labels its audience “consumption addicts” – mentally ill – and pleads they be punished with “so damn expensive” prices.
Germany’s equivalent of the BBC, publicly (forced) funded ARD Broadcasting aired a commentary on Monday evening by journalist Lorenz Beckhardt. The commentary was to respond to the latest Earth Overshoot Day report. Beckhardt’s angry commentary was a scathing tirade against western society’s “addiction to consumerism” and an unveiled call for a collective punishment so harsh so as to lead to submission.
According to international sustainability organization Global Footprint Network, humanity has already used up nature’s resource budget for the entire year. According to the organization, this means that humanity needs almost 2 earths to satiate the human demand for her resources.
Over the years, Germany’s massive ARD public broadcasting network has increasingly moved to the left, and has since embraced extreme environmentalism and climate protection. And if anyone had any doubts about this, Beckhardt’s anti-free market tirade last Monday night puts these doubts to rest.
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In his angry 1-min 41 sec. tirade, Beckhardt tells the audience how he’s fed up with hearing year after year how western societies are consuming way beyond the limits and that nothing is being done about it. He demands that policymakers take action to punish the ARD audience.
Consumption junkie
To drive home his point, Beckhardt admits how earlier in the evening he too had “a nice piece of meat on the grill” and that this is something he has “often”. He also tells the audience he often uses his car and flies all over the world because he loves coral reefs. He admits: “I’m a consumption junkie” and that he cannot help it.
He says he does it because “it’s fun, rewarding, enjoyment, lust and everyone else does it.” Next he indirectly calls the entire audience mentally ill, addicts who are in need of extremely harsh medicine.
Beckhardt’s “so damn expensive” medicine
Beckhardt then characterizes western consumption as a disease, telling the nationwide audience:
What’s astonishing is that the ARD is perfectly comfortable with airing such deranged commentaries that call for the draconian blanket punishment of its audience while harboring the delusion that we all want this punishment and that we would all vote for it.
Here’s what the ARD and the Greens really want to say: “Make meat, car driving and flying so damn expensive that you all get yourselves off it. Please! Quickly! Then only the very rich, the elite and me – the ARD journalist – will afford it. The rest of you will live as peasants in serfdom.”
And if that doesn’t take the cake:
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So the journalist makes a public confession of 'sinning' by eating meat, going on holidays and consuming, and then he aks the governments for punishment.
Again, globalisation and massive wars by the hegemon and its lackies is not even questioned. Instead, the call is to punish the little people so the rich and those who promote their views, such as Beckhardt can continue to live their current lifestyle of luxury while the rest of humanity is relegated to death, starvation and poverty, which will be the result of such radical action.
Yes and Germany seems to be on the forefront with all of this. A lot of stuff is currently happening in germany based on the climate scam, including ever more cities that declare a state of "climate-emergency" with absolutely nutty consequences/implementations for the population, because we have to "safe the climate/earth".
The following words of George Carlin, come to my mind every time I hear such "saving the world/climate" ideas:
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Excellent article, Aeneas!
Just to give this journalist a chance to live up to his feigned ecological guilt complex I would recommend to him a lengthy working vacation in Amish country, USA...
Let's see if a mild taste of de-industrialization might work as a cure for him.
(Living without TV and a cell phone could do him extra good)
The massive media network he's working for has an annual intake of 5.5 billion euros which it captures by charging everybody and his dog a "license fee", no matter if they want to be customers or not.
This is a political and financial racket I would like to see abandoned as soon as possible, not least since it is the main device of mind control in this country.
Living without television and a stationary radio since 2005 I have tried every trick in the book to deny them their prey, but in order to evade a jail term or a foreclosure the only thing I could manage was to continually lag behind 500 euros in payments.
For many years people thrived and took care of each other in local, often mobile communities - then agriculture was invented. When everything got here by accident, I guess it's easier to believe that man is the only God. Yes, our leaders have gone insane and it's horrifying to watch. It's hard to watch this world order self-destruct, hard to rejoice in the knowledge that a new world is coming at times. Thanks to this forum I have faith however, thanks all.
Another article from the "Let them eat cake" department:
www.rt.com
Let them sail yachts: Why Greta Thunberg and the environmental elite hate you
Published time: 31 Jul, 2019 18:04
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg will sail across the Atlantic by boat to attend two climate conferences. But the teenager’s carbon-neutral odyssey reveals the disregard – even contempt – the elite have for the rest of us.
Thunberg shot to fame for organizing school walkouts against climate change last year. A series of talks lamenting her generation’s impending doom have since made her the poster child for a strange, apocalyptic brand of environmentalism, with British lawmakers nodding along to her declaration that “we probably don’t even have a future anymore” in April, and the world’s power-brokers listening intently to her exhortation that they should “feel the fear I feel every day,” made at the World Economic Forum in Davos several months earlier.
She offers only one path to salvation: an immediate halt to all carbon emissions – there can be no compromise.
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Thunberg practices what she preaches, though, and eschews all forms of internal combustion while she treks from climate conference to parliamentary speech. Rather than fly to the UN Climate Action Summit in New York next month, Thunberg will sail, a journey expected to take two weeks.
However, the young proselytizer will not cobble together a boat from upcycled oil drums and driftwood. Instead she’ll be traveling on the Malizia II, a 60-foot racing yacht. The Malizia II is loaded with eco-friendly innovations, like a lightened hull and an array of solar panels powering a backup turbine.
Its crew are also a far cry from the ragtag band of crusties you might imagine. The Malizia II will be captained by renowned yachtsman Boris Herrmann and Pierre Casiraghi, grandson of Monaco’s late Prince Ranier III and actress Grace Kelly. The boat, too, was once named the Edmond de Rothschild, after the financial baron and founder of a fleet of racing yachts. Its construction cost upwards of €4 million.
Despite the cheers of bourgeois bugmen, Greta’s trip of a lifetime reveals the feckless elitism at the heart of her activism. Sailing across the Atlantic on a multimillion dollar racing yacht is a wonderful stand against climate change when you’re Greta Thunberg. But to dock in New York and demand the miserable masses give up car and air travel is the ultimate in anti-humanitarianism.
Us common folk don’t have access to vessels like the Malizia II. In Thunberg’s utopia, we’d have to row. And even if we did, how many of us can take two weeks’ annual vacation just to get to America to see our friends? Or hire actual Monegasque royalty to get us there in one piece?
ALSO ON RT.COMFrench MPs call for boycott of address by environmentalist ‘apocalyptic guru’ Greta Thunberg
The airplane and the automobile have democratized travel, and Thunberg wants to take that away from us. Troublingly, Thunberg is not a lone crusader. As she addressed the British parliament in April, the streets of London were thronged with ‘Extinction Rebellion’ climate protesters. Holding placards demanding an end to fossil fuels, meat eating and, seemingly, modernity itself, these activists visibly and forcefully demanded the government strong-arm them into being green. “Please tread on me,” they may as well have cried.
Extinction Rebellion protesters occupy London's Waterloo Bridge in April © Reuters / Simon Dawson
In the US, 104 members of Congress have co-sponsored the ‘Green New Deal,’ an ambitious piece of legislation that calls for a complete abolition of fossil fuel consumption by 2050, alongside government-mandated wealth redistribution programs. An earlier draft of the Green New Deal also called for the immediate elimination of air travel and “farting cows,”and for the dismantling of industry.
The green fervor preached by Thunberg et al. has two potential outcomes. In one scenario, the political elite will listen to her sermons, clap politely, pose for selfies and then go back to doing nothing: case in point, her meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, who rode to power promising environmental reforms, but found his cities almost razed by protesters when he tried so much as a fuel tax hike last year.
ALSO ON RT.COMIf Greta Thunberg worries about end of the world, why does she pose with status quo politicians?
The second, more terrifying outcome, is that Thunberg’s pontification will become policy. And, if the world’s governments decide to commit civilizational hara-kiri like this, they already have a propaganda department working overtime to bludgeon the masses with their message.
The elite don’t just want to regulate how you travel and how you heat your home. They want to control what you eat and how you breed, too. Open the pages of any mainstream magazine; turn on your television; scroll through any mainstream news site and you’ll see headlines like “To feed the world, why not eat bugs?,” “Eating insects is good for you – and the planet!,” “To Confront Climate Change, the Modern Automobile Must Die,” and “Want to fight climate change? Have fewer children.”
Thunberg, her elite backers, and their court scribes – if they’re to be taken at their word – want you alone, immobile and, literally, eating insects in the name of environmentalism.
By Graham Dockery
Graham Dockery is an Irish journalist working for RT since March 2018
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It is obvious for anyone with eyes to see that she has strong backers and is being used for the religion of climate change.
Let them sail yachts: Why Greta Thunberg and the environmental elite hate you
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg will sail across the Atlantic by boat to attend two climate conferences. But the teenager’s carbon-neutral odyssey reveals the disregard – even contempt – the elite have for the rest of us.
Let them sail yachts: Why Greta Thunberg and the environmental elite hate you
Published time: 31 Jul, 2019 18:04
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg will sail across the Atlantic by boat to attend two climate conferences. But the teenager’s carbon-neutral odyssey reveals the disregard – even contempt – the elite have for the rest of us.
Thunberg shot to fame for organizing school walkouts against climate change last year. A series of talks lamenting her generation’s impending doom have since made her the poster child for a strange, apocalyptic brand of environmentalism, with British lawmakers nodding along to her declaration that “we probably don’t even have a future anymore” in April, and the world’s power-brokers listening intently to her exhortation that they should “feel the fear I feel every day,” made at the World Economic Forum in Davos several months earlier.
She offers only one path to salvation: an immediate halt to all carbon emissions – there can be no compromise.
Greta Thunberg
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Good news!
I’ll be joining the UN Climate Action Summit in New York, COP25 in Santiago and other events along the way.
I’ve been offered a ride on the 60ft racing boat Malizia II. We’ll be sailing across the Atlantic Ocean from the UK to NYC in mid August.#UniteBehindTheScience
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Thunberg practices what she preaches, though, and eschews all forms of internal combustion while she treks from climate conference to parliamentary speech. Rather than fly to the UN Climate Action Summit in New York next month, Thunberg will sail, a journey expected to take two weeks.
However, the young proselytizer will not cobble together a boat from upcycled oil drums and driftwood. Instead she’ll be traveling on the Malizia II, a 60-foot racing yacht. The Malizia II is loaded with eco-friendly innovations, like a lightened hull and an array of solar panels powering a backup turbine.
Its crew are also a far cry from the ragtag band of crusties you might imagine. The Malizia II will be captained by renowned yachtsman Boris Herrmann and Pierre Casiraghi, grandson of Monaco’s late Prince Ranier III and actress Grace Kelly. The boat, too, was once named the Edmond de Rothschild, after the financial baron and founder of a fleet of racing yachts. Its construction cost upwards of €4 million.
Despite the cheers of bourgeois bugmen, Greta’s trip of a lifetime reveals the feckless elitism at the heart of her activism. Sailing across the Atlantic on a multimillion dollar racing yacht is a wonderful stand against climate change when you’re Greta Thunberg. But to dock in New York and demand the miserable masses give up car and air travel is the ultimate in anti-humanitarianism.
Us common folk don’t have access to vessels like the Malizia II. In Thunberg’s utopia, we’d have to row. And even if we did, how many of us can take two weeks’ annual vacation just to get to America to see our friends? Or hire actual Monegasque royalty to get us there in one piece?
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The airplane and the automobile have democratized travel, and Thunberg wants to take that away from us. Troublingly, Thunberg is not a lone crusader. As she addressed the British parliament in April, the streets of London were thronged with ‘Extinction Rebellion’ climate protesters. Holding placards demanding an end to fossil fuels, meat eating and, seemingly, modernity itself, these activists visibly and forcefully demanded the government strong-arm them into being green. “Please tread on me,” they may as well have cried.
Extinction Rebellion protesters occupy London's Waterloo Bridge in April © Reuters / Simon Dawson
In the US, 104 members of Congress have co-sponsored the ‘Green New Deal,’ an ambitious piece of legislation that calls for a complete abolition of fossil fuel consumption by 2050, alongside government-mandated wealth redistribution programs. An earlier draft of the Green New Deal also called for the immediate elimination of air travel and “farting cows,”and for the dismantling of industry.
The green fervor preached by Thunberg et al. has two potential outcomes. In one scenario, the political elite will listen to her sermons, clap politely, pose for selfies and then go back to doing nothing: case in point, her meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, who rode to power promising environmental reforms, but found his cities almost razed by protesters when he tried so much as a fuel tax hike last year.
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The second, more terrifying outcome, is that Thunberg’s pontification will become policy. And, if the world’s governments decide to commit civilizational hara-kiri like this, they already have a propaganda department working overtime to bludgeon the masses with their message.
The elite don’t just want to regulate how you travel and how you heat your home. They want to control what you eat and how you breed, too. Open the pages of any mainstream magazine; turn on your television; scroll through any mainstream news site and you’ll see headlines like “To feed the world, why not eat bugs?,” “Eating insects is good for you – and the planet!,” “To Confront Climate Change, the Modern Automobile Must Die,” and “Want to fight climate change? Have fewer children.”
Thunberg, her elite backers, and their court scribes – if they’re to be taken at their word – want you alone, immobile and, literally, eating insects in the name of environmentalism.
By Graham Dockery
Graham Dockery is an Irish journalist working for RT since March 2018
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It is obvious for anyone with eyes to see that she has strong backers and is being used for the religion of climate change.
