Politicians, Technocrats, Scientists All Signed Up to Irrational Green Agenda
That a movement as weird and alarmist as XR is championing the green cause should be a fatal embarrassment to all green-leaning politicians and technocrats.
XR’s demand of Net Zero by 2025 is manifestly implausible and unreasonable. A world with XR in charge would more likely lead to civil war than green utopia.
But environmentalism doesn’t become any more sensible as you move from lunatic activists up through the ranks of the political establishment and scientific institutions.
If anything, things become more absurd the higher up you go.
Take UN secretary-general António Guterres’ declaration that the most recent IPCC report represented ‘a code red for humanity’. This was an absurd statement that owed nothing to science.
Then there’s the absurd sight of world leaders prostrating before teenage truant Greta Thunberg.
The UK parliament’s virtue-signalling declaration of a ‘climate emergency’ was also an absurd spectacle.
And its passing of a legally binding Net Zero target – setting the political agenda for the next 30 years, after just 90 minutes of non-debate – heaped absurdity on absurdity.
The foundational claim of the climate movement – namely, that civilisation depends on favourable and stable climate – simply does not stand up to scrutiny. In truth, civilisations have existed across a vast range of climatic circumstances, many of them ‘extreme’ in relative terms.
Even in our age of ‘climate change’, society has never been less vulnerable to extreme weather or to any other challenge from nature.
The industrialisation that is producing those much-hated greenhouse gases has led to a historically unprecedented expansion in human welfare that can be demonstrated by every single metric imaginable. The central proposition of climate advocacy is simply wrong.
But don’t count on institutional science to correct this falsehood. Most scientists are either silent or are doing just as much to push the green view.
Chief scientific advisers, UN secretary-generals, parliaments, governments and XR all talk vaguely of ‘system change’. And when this proposed ‘system change’ is presented as a scientific imperative, it can avoid being subjected to serious debate or democratic scrutiny.
The weird phenomenon that is Extinction Rebellion is what you get when green ideology goes completely unopposed.
But while these protesters might be annoying, they are not capable of inflicting as much harm on society as the establishment is. This is who we should be worried about.
There is no more sense or rationality to be found in ‘respectable’ climate advocacy than there is in XR’s street theatre.
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VOWG
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We have to stop using the word green when it comes to energy. Green is a color and has nothing to do with energy production. There is no such thing as green energy, all electricity production requires massive inputs of fossil fuels to manufacture those so called “green” power generating systems, all of them. Stop the foolishness. CO2 is not a climate driver, is is however a green driver.
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VOWG
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it is, not is is.
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Mark Tapley
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Hello VOWG:
The phrase “Green Energy” should not be used as you state because it is really code words for the implementation of the long planned Agenda 2030-21, now repackaged as the “Great Reset” or the 4th industrial revolution led by the WEF founded by Zionist Jew and Nixon handler Henry Kissinger. All of this is just a repackaging of Marx, (Moses Mordecai Levy) ten point planks of the communist manifesto.
The phrase “fossil fuel” originating with the Rockefeller’s (Leveson) should also be dropped,. Abiotic oils are not derived from dead dinosaurs. That is another part of the Club of Rome energy scam.
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