We had to slow the boat down to avoid some really rough weather ahead, but now we’re back on track at full speed. Hopefully we will arrive in Lisbon, Portugal, sometime in early December. @Sailing_LaVaga @elayna__c @_NikkiHenderson
The All-Purpose, Never-Ending Green Tyranny
Belgian philosopher Drieu Godefridi has a new book, short enough to be read over two evenings. The French-language edition is titled: L’écologisme, nouveau totalitarisme? which translates roughly as: Is Environmentalism the New Totalitarianism?
The English-language edition, newly available as a Kindle e-book as well as a paperback, doesn’t beat around the bush. It’s titled The Green Reich: Global Warming to the Green Tyranny.
Godefridi says we have good reason to be alarmed. Not by climate change, but by the endless, hazardous-to-humans measures that activists propose in response.
In order to prevent climate-induced economic harm sometime in the future, these people plan to devastate the economy now. They make no secret of their intent to shut down virtually all human activity, including travel and trade.
This, says Godefridi, makes environmentalism more “ambitious in its desire to subdue” humanity “than any previous doctrine.” Unlike Marxism, he writes,
Environmentalism does not intend to seize the means of production to increase and distribute the fruits in an equal manner. Environmentalism plans to seize the means of production to stop it. [bold added]
Climate activists believe human-produced CO2 is endangering the planet. Since everything we do generates CO2 – including breathing – that makes us the enemy. In Godefridi’s words, the Soviet citizen
was tightly policed, oppressed, and materially limited when he was not being deported [to] the Gulag and killed. However, he was never considered…as a problem in himself. [bold added]
Long before the violence started, Germany’s Nazis were plainspoken about who was the enemy. They didn’t hide their intentions. ‘Never again,’ is meaningless, says Godefridi, if we refuse to see what’s happening in front of our noses.
Traditionally, international travel has been considered an economic, intellectual, even moral good. Go learn about other cultures. Don’t be so parochial.
Climate activists are cut from a different cloth. Godefridi says it’s time to stop imagining they’re joking. UK activist journalist George Monbiot declares air travel “one of the most destructive activities on Earth.”
His idea of a “socially just solution” involves the steady scaling down of the industry.
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Rather than flying from North America back to Europe in an airplane within hours, climate activist Greta Thunberg departed North America on Nov. 12 aboard a boat. Five days ago, she said she hopes to arrive in Portugal “sometime in early December.”
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Ordinary people can’t afford to take a month out of their lives to cross the ocean. But once climate activists are in charge, all other options will be banned.
A headline in the India Times declares Greta “The Role Model Everyone Needs.”
An employee of the David Suzuki Foundation, writing in Canada’s largest newspaper, says Greta is “an inspiration to millions of people for a multitude of reasons.”
The founder of Women Who Sail says Greta “is the great saint of our time.”
In every corner of every local, provincial, national, and international organization, Greta’s worldview is being promoted. Climate activists are working tirelessly, behind the scenes, to make it everyone’s reality.
These people don’t value human accomplishment or technology. They don’t value your time. Nor do they value your freedom. They’re extremists who are prepared to sacrifice everything ‘for the good of the planet.’
We need to read Godefridi’s book. And re-read it. Before it’s too late.
The Green Reich: Global warming to the Green Tyranny (Amazon US)
The Green Reich: Global warming to the Green Tyranny (Amazon Canada)
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T. C. Clark
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The latest from the social justice and eco warriors is “Climate Restoration”. We can’t just stop climate degradation….we must restore it to the pristine condition of our parents and grandparents when they were little children – see? Look at Greta out there on the stormy sea….that sea would be calm if it wasn’t for man made CO2. (don’t worry…Greta’s boat has 2 diesel engines)
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Andy Rowlands
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The idiocy and blind faith of the eco-fascists beggars belief.
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Chris
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Sounds like luxury to me. I’d like to go sailing like that.
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The Dork of Cork
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I do not think this blog knows why there is mass air travel today !
We have mass air travel because of domestic rationing which economists call austerity.
The energy surplus released from your sacrifice simply gets transferred to the connected corporate sector . ( Because wealth is a flow , Frederick Soddy )
I am totally against the top down green movement of further rationing but I suspect its motive is to release much more energy to be lost in transport distribution rather then real end use human consumption.
Westerners see a decline of air travel simply because more Chinese are doing it .
We are not seeing less global air travel because of western rationing .
We are seeing more of it !
Yee poor dears are looking from inside the goldfish bowl and our owners are transferring more and more of our water elsewhere.
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The Dork of Cork
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Irish jet kerosene use has broken its previous 2007 peak consumption.
It’s really the only fossil fuel growing .
The monopoly who owns us need us to starve so as to sustain its operations.
Mercantalism is built into the software of the machine .
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.dublinairport.com/latest-news/2019/11/27/juneyao-air-to-launch-new-dublin-shanghai-route&ved=2ahUKEwiD8IbzyIvmAhU3TxUIHbZBARUQFjAAegQIBBAB&usg=AOvVaw3WcH3kZ6yc8qvP-eRKO8ud
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.dublinairport.com/latest-news/2019/11/27/juneyao-air-to-launch-new-dublin-shanghai-route&ved=2ahUKEwiD8IbzyIvmAhU3TxUIHbZBARUQFjAAegQIBBAB&usg=AOvVaw3WcH3kZ6yc8qvP-eRKO8ud
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Dave P
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Trade is the exchange of information in any format.
Trade is human kind’s highest endeavor & achievement – It defines us!
The clandestine, coercive and obstructive nature of government has always been anti-trade!
6 Billion people is a lot of people to manage in the current feudal system.
A climate of fear makes us more manageable for social engineering purposes and negates the possibility of the feudal systems collapse.
The feudal system was originally based on land extortion.
It is now based on energy extortion too.
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