Posted on 07/27/2021 4:13:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
This past weekend, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd added another column to the myriad irrational and hysterical pieces about the "existential threat" climate change allegedly poses to human life.
As I do after almost every piece I read on the internet, I read comments submitted by readers.
One provided me with an epiphany.
It was a comment submitted by New York Times reader "Sophia" of Bangor, Maine:
"I have one child, a daughter, who told me age 8 that she would never have a child because of global warming. She's now 34 and has never changed her mind. So I will not experience a grandchild. For her wisdom, I am grateful. I would be heartsick if I did have a grandchild who would have to experience the onslaught of changing climate."
It is hard to imagine greater proof than that comment of the power of mass media and of the left. That a normal woman would celebrate her daughter's choice not to be a mother and not to make her a grandmother can only be described as deranged. No normal-thinking human being would think that way. Jews had children during the Holocaust and made sure to have children if they survived the Holocaust.
Does this deranged woman know how few people are dying due to weather-related incidents in the era of global warming?
Danish statistician and economist Bjorn Lomborg noted this past week:
"Over the past hundred years, annual climate-related deaths have declined by more than 96%. In the 1920s, the death count from climate-related disasters was 485,000 on average every year. In the last full decade, 2010-2019, the average was 18,362 dead per year, or 96.2% lower.
"In the first year of the new decade, 2020, the number of dead was even lower at 14,893 -- 97% lower than the 1920s average ...
"The preliminary estimate of 2021 climate-related deaths (is) 5,569 or 98.9% lower than the 1920s ...
"The newest Lancet study of heat and cold deaths show(s) that cold 'vastly' outweigh heat, and that climate actually has dramatically lowered (the number of) total death(s) ... "
Of course, none of that matters to Sophia -- because she relies on The New York Times (and probably NPR and CNN) for her understanding of the world.
For more proof of how deranged many New York Times readers -- and Washington Post readers, CNN viewers and NPR listeners -- are because they rely on these sources for what they believe about the world, here are some replies to Sophia's comment from other New York Times readers:
B. Rothman, New York City: "I completely agree. I have 6 grandchildren and weep inside for the calamitous life that is ahead for them."
Ida Martinac, Berkeley, California: "I weep with you, Sophia. Whenever I look my 11 year old daughter in the eyes I feel so many emotions: guilt for bringing her into this dying world."
Liberal, Texas: "I feel your pain. I have 2 sons. Neither one will have children and their partners agree. I'll never have grandchildren. But I also realize that their decisions have in some way been molded by me. I am proud of their decision."
Liz, Portland: "Frankly, as someone who has been concerned about climate change, and observing what is happening over the last ten years with real dread, I do not understand why anyone in the last ten years would voluntarily have a child."
CC, Sonoma, California: "My only daughter shares your daughter's feelings. I will have no grandchildren. As I watch my peers enjoying their final years surrounded by grandchildren, I can't help feeling a little jealous. At the same time ... our daughters are stepping up to the challenge. I'm proud of them."
Marisa Leaf, Brooklyn, New York: "I, too, am coming to terms and accepting that my 36 year old son will not have a child as well -- for stated reasons. It is painful for me when I watch other young men and women his age going about town with their children. But I understand, and concur, on an intellectual level, that of course they're right. Bringing more children into the world these days is an existential worry. And irresponsible. So, as I grieve for our planet, I also grieve for the grandchildren that I will never have."
What do all these deranged reactions have in common? How could so many people living in the healthiest, wealthiest society in human history welcome not having grandchildren?
The answer is they have been brainwashed by the media (and college). They have read and heard nothing -- absolutely nothing -- by scientists and scholars (such as Steve Koonin of NYU, Richard Lindzen of MIT or William Happer of Princeton, to name just three) who have studied climate change and found the hysteria morally as well as scientifically indefensible. It is not possible to live a life insulated from left-wing ideas. But it is extraordinarily easy to lead a life insulated from all non-left-wing ideas.
So, then, the epiphany I had was this: A majority of people will believe anything the mass media tell them.This is especially true of those who received a college education. Colleges teach students not to question, not think for themselves and not to think rationally.
That is why many people believe the world is coming to an end; it is good not to have children or grandchildren; men give birth; Russia colluded with the Trump campaign; Israel is an apartheid state; all-black dormitories on college campuses are progressive; there should be fewer police; it is fair to women to allow biological men to compete in women's sports; and myriad other absurdities.
There is no other explanation for these deluded readers of The New York Times.
However, I do agree with them on one point. I, too, support their children's decisions not to have children. The world doesn't need more fools.
Outside of exposure-related deaths, cold means shorter growing seasons which means lower crop yield. This equates to hunger and eventual starvation. Cold is far more destructive than heat by and large.
Working as planned. Deplete the middle and upper-middle class. Swell the ranks of the poorest of the poor.
Dumb enough voters down (and toss in some violence once in a while to send the message).
Liberalism - or should I say, leftism - is truly a form of mental illness. It requires total suspension of disbelief at its very start, that is, the ability to simply ignore the fact that no society based on leftist postulates has ever succeeded. It then moves on to the acceptance of whatever specific fantasies are being disseminated by the vanguard, flying in the face of all evidence. Reality makes no difference to leftists, because they had to accept unreality as the basis of their thinking at the very start.
Leftism is actually a religion, a system of belief and not a political system, and that’s why it’s so hard to defeat politically.
The media is one major factor,
But another is the abandonment of religion, which creates a void that must be filled. So in place of forsaking sin and trying to save their souls, they forsake one of God’s commandments (be fruitful and multiply) to, in their minds, save the planet.
Liberals not having children....
Problem solved!
I know, who cares if lefties selectively edit themselves from the gene pool? This is a win.
Climate cultists, covid cultists, BLM, Marxist, liberals. Half the world is nuts and the other half just wants to enjoy life vice tear it apart.
I’ll be brook fishing with the grandkid after he gets up, have lunch and probably a beer later with some fresh trout.
I weep for my grandchildren to have to endure the futuristic world created by commies. The weather is the last thing to worry about.
it’s a good thing these idiots don’t reproduce...
If a liberal feels so strongly, they should perform a late term abortion on their sad progeny. Age doesn’t matter, neither does method. Go Save the World.
You go ahead first.
be brook fishing with the grandkid after he gets up, have lunch and probably a beer later with some fresh trout.
….you are a Blessed lucky , was gonna say bastard, but that is one thing you aren’t,….Grampa.
Make it a Wonderful Day.
Illustrates the empirical finding that liberals tend to rely on authority, including “the experts”, more than normal people do. Conservatives tend to be more independent thinkers and make up their own mind. The hallmark of all these benighted letter writers is obtuse credulity. They are the sheeple.
Sea levels must be rising from all the “weeping” of these effete, virtue signaling climate twits.
Oh, and what a great finishing line to the essay!
Derangement or paranoia? Or both?
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