Posted on 09/13/2024 11:55:57 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Editor’s Note: The thought police at Google immediately slapped a restraining order on this editorial — as they now do with everything we publish about “climate change” to punish us for not toeing the line. Here is the notice we received from them:
What do the climate activists really want? Do they have nothing more in mind than a noble crusade to prevent the burning sky from falling on us? Or is the global warming scare just another piece of the revolution? It’s of course the latter. We know this because they’re constantly telling us it is.
The most recent admission comes from Los Angeles Times environmental reporter Rosanna Xia, whose exhausting essay under the headline “To fix climate anxiety (and also climate change), we first have to fix individualism” was posted on Wednesday – yes, Sept. 11.
Xia dwells a great deal on “climate anxiety” caused by environmental events that have afflicted the planet since its creation but are now blamed on human progress through the combustion of fossil fuels. She worries “we’ll never go back to normal” without defining sufficiently “normal” – maybe because, in a world that has never stopped changing, there is no normal. She is angry, frustrated, helpless, and exhausted. Earth is so doomed that she questions “whether I could ever justify bringing my own children into this world.”
And the answer to all this? Diminish individualism and elevate the collective.
Xia approvingly quotes Sarah Jaquette Ray, whom she identifies as a “an environmental humanist who chairs the environmental studies program at Cal Poly Humboldt,” which tells us a lot about the state of academia.
“One huge reason why climate anxiety feels so awful is this feeling of not being able to do anything about it,” says Ray. “But if you actually saw yourself as part of a collective, as interconnected with all these other movements doing meaningful things, you wouldn’t be feeling this despair and loneliness.”
The West has become so weak in character that group therapy is needed to protect the handwringers from imagined bogeymen.
Though she has decided that individualism is an enemy, nowhere in her fear-filled screed does Xia directly demand a policy regime that would strip us of our individualism.
She does, however, insist that we must “reimagine the systems that got us into such a devastating crisis in the first place.” In other words, give her and the other climate nags power and money and they will turn our civil society into a political society they control.
Other alarmists have been similarly forthcoming about their intentions. We refer readers to our previous documentation of this phenomenon:
- Christiana Figueres, one-time executive secretary of United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the climate activists’ agenda is not to protect the environment but to break capitalism. The task ahead, she said in 2015, is “to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution.”
- The late Rajenda Pachauri was the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Chairman until 2015. He openly conceded “the protection of planet Earth, the survival of all species and sustainability of our ecosystems” was “more than a mission” to him. It was his “religion” and “dharma.”
- Activist and influential author Naomi Klein once wondered if the fearmongering was “the best chance we’re ever going to get to build a better world?” The world must “change, or be changed,” she says, because an “economic system” — our free and open markets — has caused environmental “wreckage.”
- Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said almost five years ago that Miami will not exist “in a few years” due to the effects of global warming. She of course had a plan, not to deal with the changes, but to pass Democratic Party policies. “The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all,” former Ocasio-Cortez chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti said, according to the Washington Post Magazine. “Do you guys think of it as a climate thing?” Chakrabarti asked an aide to Washington Gov. Jay Inslee while the pair met at a Washington, D.C. coffee shop in May. “Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.”
The climate change scare is a role player in the larger revolution the political left is determined to push through. That’s why climate brat Greta Thunberg is also a Hamas apologist, the Black Lives Matter movement intersects with the demonization of Christopher Columbus and the transgender madness is sacred to Democrats. It’s part of Obama’s goal of “fundamentally transforming” not just the U.S., but the entire Western world. If it’s allowed to roll on, through Harris-Walz and a Democratic Congress, things will end badly. Revolutions led by power-mad malfeasants seeking meaning for their lives always do.
The religion of the malcontents.
Has anybody ever met a person afflicted with “climate anxiety”?
We’ve all met people with TDS. The two are peas in a pod.
I get climate anxiety when I have to drive on icy roads.
collectivists
GOOGLE aka GULAG
Pretty much. Being part of a religion, a family and a community is a natural part of being human. We crave it and if it is removed from us we will attempt to build it anew.
But since, in this case, they are starting from scratch and ignoring the wisdom of those who came before they are unlikely to do a very good job.
So just tell them "Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione". (I'm not interested in your dopey religious cult.)
The goal has always been communism.
“The Issue Is Never The Issue”
.04%. That is the fraction of our air that is composed of CO2. All this fuss over such a trivial amount. With Mars and Venus at over 95% why is it so small on Earth? Only Earth has plants and they have become very good at pulling CO2 out of the air. In this race plants are like the Tortoise and we are like the quick Rabbit. Rest assured they will eventually catch up with whatever amount Mankind creates.
Yes, when I’m driving in a snowstorm :)
If you’re asking me about changes that might occur over the next several thousand years....not so much
Whenever some crazed leftist says they are afraid to bring a child into the world, I say “thank you”.
Trying to make this a war between the individual and the COLLECTIVE is just a way to atomize people more and then throw them into the arms of the COLLECTIVE.
I had a co-worker whose teen daughter had horrible anxiety about the climate. It was awful to hear about, but all completely caused by the propaganda she was getting at her public schooling in a mid-sized city.
Oddly enough, it made me think of how I felt as a child about the possibility of nuclear war. I really thought the odds were good that I’d die in one before reaching adulthood, and all because of the fear mongering in my city’s public schools (my elementary school had a big “Nuclear Free Zone” sign outside that we walked past every day).
GOOGEVIL
Uhh, no.
The real goal is drastically reducing the human population on earth.
Looking back, the possibility of dying in a nuclear war was probably a million times higher than being harmed by climate change. One was a real and present danger; the other is a fantasy to make the anointed ones huge amounts of money and scare the populace to death to keep the money coming in.
Wait, that sounds like the Military Industrial Complex.
Imagine a time before those things existed, maybe the early 1900s. Of course, you had the very first wide-scale world war looming on the horizon.
We are closer now to nuclear war that anytime other than the Cuban missile crisis. We have an administration hell bent on shooting American weapons into Moscow for their globalhomo puppet state and it’s queer leader. I put the odds as even money Russia uses tactical nukes before they withdrawal from any territory.
“I put the odds as even money Russia uses tactical nukes before they withdrawal from any territory.”
I would not take that bet.
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