Posted on 10/17/2022 12:42:05 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Climate activists imagine a world in which all the burden falls on the rich.
On Friday morning, two young women approached Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers,” on display in the National Gallery in London, and hurled tomato soup across the blooms, before gluing themselves to the gallery wall.
The two activists were part of a climate-protest outfit with an illuminating name: Just Stop Oil. Celebrating their vandalism, the group declared that the “disruption is in response to the government’s inaction on both the cost of living crisis and the climate crisis,” and that it was deliberately timed to protest both the “launch of a new round of oil and gas licensing” and “an energy price hike” that threatens to throw “almost 8 million households” into “fuel poverty.”
It’s a mistake to demand perfect consistency from activists, but if you read the preceding paragraph carefully you will note a certain tension. The activists are protesting both the expansion of energy supply, on the grounds that fossil fuels are pushing the world toward climate apocalypse, and the energy supply’s constriction, on the grounds that higher prices are cruel to struggling households.
This tension has always lurked beneath the surface of left-wing climate activism, whose vision often imagines rich societies accepting a certain austerity, a retreat from the growth mentality of capitalism, a simpler, more ecologically wholesome way of life … while also imagining that somehow this austerity will fall only on the greedy rich and consumerist upper-middle class, while the poor and working class experience the post-capitalist, de-growth future as more affordable, not less.
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Leftists are going to protest no matter what. We are living in the richest culture that has ever existed. Compared with even the first half of the twentieth century today is paradise. Yet leftists sip their latte’s and shout Marxist theory’s on their iPads. Irony is lost on them.
This does nothing to deal with the fact that winter is cold and people will die if they do not have a way to heat their homes. Demand for energy is inelastic. The kind of solution that is the most effective for these dumb children’s “problem” would be a reduction in the human population of the earth (particularly the northern hemisphere). This would reduce demand, as there is no effective substitute for fossil fuels. I don’t see any of these people volunteering themselves for the option of sterilization or euthanasia.
This is an infantile argument, and these brats need put in jail for a long time for the havoc and vandalism they cause. I’m tired of these elitest and juvenile claims that are nothing more than a Marie Antoinette “Let them eat cake” response to energy.
Douthat's attempt to blame Putin is IGNORANT and self deluding.
Putin only has the leverage that STUPID Biden Policies gifted him.
Perhaps Ross could tell us which of the Trump Energy Policies would not have averted the Biden FAILURES?
<>before gluing themselves to the gallery wall<>
Leave them as part of the exhibit.
Good idea. With a coating of plaster of Paris followed by a splash of tomato soup.
I think they only glued one hand to the wall I’d have liked to helped them by gluing the other hand to the wall too, and maybe their faces too.
Posted a coupla times... worth repeating IMHO.
The Promised Climate Disasters of the last half-century plus.
1966 Oil Gone in Ten Years
1967 Dire Famine Forecast By 1975
1968 Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide, destroy food supply
1969 Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989 (1969)
1970 Ice Age By 2000
1970 America Subject to Water Rationing By 1974 and Food Rationing By 1980
1970 World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources
1970 Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985
1970 Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable
1970 Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish
1971 New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030
1972 New Ice Age By 2070
1972 Oil Depleted in 20 Years
1974 Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast
1974 Another Ice Age?
1974 Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life
1976 Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent
1977 Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 90s
1978 No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend
1980 Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes
1980 Peak Oil In 2000
1988 Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s
1988 Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs
1988 Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (they’re not)
1989 Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000
1989 New York City’s West Side Highway Underwater by 2019 (it’s not)
1996 Peak Oil in 2020
2000 Children Won’t Know what Snow Is
2002 Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy
2002 Peak Oil in 2010
2004 Britain will Be Siberia by 2024
2005 Manhattan Underwater by 2015
2006 Super Hurricanes!
2008 Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018
2008 Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013
2009 Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save World
2009 UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to ‘Save The Planet From Catastrophe’
2009 Climate Genius Al Gore Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice-Free Arctic to 2014
2013 Arctic Ice-Free by 2015
2014 Only 500 Days Before ‘Climate Chaos’
2019 Only 12 years left to save Earth
2020 Covid-19
2021 President Biden (a true disaster)
Throwing tomato juice on a Van Gogh is certainly an excellent way to build sympathy for your cause. Yep. Sure. You bet.
F***ing idiots.
I have been bothered by the contradiction between Climate Change and Global Warming.
Climate Change (CC) explains EXTREEMLY cold winters. Global Warming (GW) predicts warm winters. How can this be the case if CC and GW are the same theory? If they are two different theories, how can anyone believe both?
Ross @$$hat buys a clue.
“Leave them as part of the exhibit.”
:nodding in agreement: The best part comes when they have to use the john...
It’s all about the money.
Yep. Let visitors the next day enjoy the mess, stench and howling.
Ross Douthat— The NY Slimes’s current pet “conservative.” After the legendary Bill Safire, a couple others, then David Brooks, now the latest in a long line of dancing bears on short leashes at the Old Grey Whore.
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