Posted on 09/26/2023 6:49:39 AM PDT by george76
Has the air gone out of the “climate crisis” balloon?
It’s starting to look like it. Some other causes du jour are looking limp lately, too.
Oh, hysteria is still out there. In Boston this month, I passed a church where the door bore a lurid poster reading “DUE TO GLOBAL CLIMATE CRISIS, WORSHIP IN SANCTUARY 9-17-23 CANCELED.”
If it were really a global crisis, wouldn’t you want to be praying?
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While the soldiers of God had fled the scene in advance, the armies of Mammon were out in force on the Boston Common, in the form of a massive cannabis fair. Say what you will about the stoners, they’re not prone to panic or overthinking
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But this seems actually a case of closing church so parishioners could go to New York to “Join us in the March to End Fossil Fuels,” which is even more amusing, since traveling uses a lot more fossil fuels than staying in Boston and praying for an end to fossil fuels, which would be at least as effective.
Bill Gates, however, is pumping the brakes on climate panic.
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he observed that heavy-handed policies won’t work: “If you try to do climate brute force, you will get people who say, ‘I like climate but I don’t want to bear that cost and reduce my standard of living.’”
As Gates noted, many of these people are in middle-income countries, like China and India, that are the biggest contributors to carbon emissions today and whose emissions (unlike those of the United States) have been growing.
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Gates softening his tone; it feels as if climate outrage has passed its sell-by date.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The guy is a college dropout with no professional training or credentials that I’m aware of … and yet in the media he’s peddled as an expert on infectious diseases, climate, or any other issue du jour that useless totalitarian bureaucrats are using to exercise control over people.
This loser should have focused his time and energy on fixing the viruses in his own company’s operating system.
The Left is very good at crafting fear narratives and effectively branding them. The Republicans don’t even know what a narrative is.
Just like I suspected.
He is backing off as the message is “wrong”.
Solution is “change the message”
“They never give up.”
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So true. They are motivated to win and they are of offence all the time, mainly because they never run into any resistance.
No, I am not “missing the point”. Large quantities of cheap energy is always a good thing. The fact that the new reactors also allow “carbon free” energy generation and drastic reduction of radwaste are bonuses.
What do you suppose their next “crisis” will be?
They’ve about exhausted homos and trannies. They about exhausted climate. Sex with kiddies is a hard-sell. The racism fad might have peaked and BLM and antifa are now passé. Forcing people into EVs isn’t working out (subset of climate). Forcing people to eat bugs is a tough sell.
What’s next on the execrable progressive hit parade?
Shutting down farms might be an up-and-comer (also a subset of climate).
Everything under the UN Agenda 2030? Of course, that embraces all of the above.
Who’s going to tell Greta?
He realizes that inflation is eating away at what’s left of peoples’ disposable income and they’re not going to tolerate the elites pushing their expensive green agenda on them. Gates is worried about backlash. That’s what is causing him to back off his self-serving push for costly green programs.
“Imagine if we had a party that pushed for things. Wouldn’t that be nice.”
No kidding. Just ONCE I’d like to hear somebody say “Your entire progressive project is lunacy, will not work, will impoverish everybody, will lead to totalitarianism and hundreds of millions of dead. We are going to stop it cold.”
One man has had the courage to say that - President Trump. And he is reviled and repulsed by his party.
The climate changelings have jumped the shark. Their booschidt is getting really old.
Exactly. Just as there is and never was a "COVID" crisis to solve, and there is no "systemic racism" crisis to solve (though I would suggest that there IS a serious racism problem, but it is black racism against whites and Asians).
They are all invented crises, created for the purpose of expanding power and control.
People ventured outside and saw no sign of this Climate Crisis they SCREAM about , LOL and Bill Gates is a Psychopath
“What do you suppose their next “crisis” will be?”
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Maybe back to global cooling. LOL
Whatever it is has to include a fear component to underlie their blame game and justify more government programs. Every “crisis” requires lots of money and bureaucracy don’t you know.
“They are all invented crises, created for the purpose of expanding power and control.”
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That in a nutshell is their game.
Notice how every “crisis” always benefits them.
“One man has had the courage to say that - President Trump. And he is reviled and repulsed by his party.”
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Trump fights back and in the process exposes the rest of his party for the weak and feckless frauds they are. So they resent and revile him.
Justice would be “Wanted” posters for the DEPOPULATION monster.
What’s their next Scam ?
Most people still don't know that the computer virus is a scam similar to COVID, Bill Gates left a window open on purpose and you better pay up or the virus protection companies will send you a virus
Bill Gates is an evil prick and now he is selling COVID virus protection
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