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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.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
In 1991 The Club of Rome (a communist death cult) published the book The First Global revolution, in which they spill the climate scam’s beans:
From The First Global Revolution, page 75:
It would seem that humans need a common motivation, namely a common adversary, to organize and act together in the vacuum; such a motivation must be found to bring the divided nations together to face an outside enemy, either a real one or else one invented for the purpose.
New enemies therefore have to be identified.
New strategies imagined, new weapons devised.
In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.
Al Gore is a member of the Club of Rome, as was Mikhail Gorbachev, an avowed communist to the very end.
People wear polyester without thinking about it. Polyester comes from oil. People adopt hip ecoslogans at colleges without thinking about it. Where do ecoslogans come from. What are they made out of. Ask more questions.
If we suddenly had, say, fusion down to generate unlimited electricity with no harmful waste, we had electric cars with 500 mile range, 2 minute charges, and solid state, non-hurtful batteries, and high speed trains going everywhere….if we had all of that these people would not slow down one bit. Not at all. It would then be “over crowding”, “underserved countries”, “disadvantaged communities”, more “white man bad”, redistributing wealth, and social credit schemes….all to “save the planet”. It will never end until we identify the individuals, the people themselves, behind all this, and ostracize them from society. Think that isn’t fair? That is precisely what they want to do to us.
Well said!
When motor vehicles became available, horses were not banned. There was clearly a better option for transportation, and the use of horses faded into oblivion. At that time, progress was designed to improve the human condition. Banning the use of reliable and proven fuels for energy before having a viable, preferable alternative is, at best, dysfunctional, or more likely a goal of impoverishing humans and imposing totalitarian governance. Mandates for ending combustion engine vehicles and electric generation are made before there is even the remote possibility of designing and building the infrastructure to accommodate the sheer volume of energy needed to replace them. There is nothing scientific, logical or feasible supporting “mandates”. They do produce massive wealth for a handful of powerful interests, re instating a medieval societal model.
If you stand for nothing, you will fall for anything….
Even though CO2 was 4-7 times greater when Dinosaurs walked Earth, that doesn’t prove to Climate Changers that Climate Change is bunk.
The Atlantic Ocean was warming up before it was cooling now.
And still, that doesn’t convince that Climate Change is bunk.
Basically, every prediction Al Gore made in his movie never came true. Also, Antarctica had it coldest time ever about a year or ago.
I saw several people walking today around Lake Murray in San Diego wearing ridiculous face masks. It was sunny, 75 degrees with a gentle breeze, yet here they were, a young man in his 20s and a middle aged women wearing what can only be described as a beekeepers outfit that, other then the lack of the screen, covered he mouth and most, her head and an apron across the back for her shoulders. He was also wearing a large hat. These are damaged people, as are the souls I still see wearing face shields, multiple masks, medical gloves, while driving alone in their cars.
No love for Google here, but in this case Google is correct, and you are wrong.
I would like to strand those screwballs in the Wilderness for Winter and see that the Earth is Not Fragile