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The “scientific consensus” on “climate change” isn’t a real consensus, and even if it were, so what? In the 1930s, all respectable economists agreed that capitalism was dead, and that the future lay with “planned economies” and technocratic leadership of the kind thought to be working miracles in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Back in the 1960s and ’70s, a similar consensus agreed that the earth faced a desperate crisis of overpopulation, which would drive us to mass famines, wars over water and copper, and a return to the Iron Age. To stop it, we would need to give massive powers to governments, even global agencies, to control people’s child-bearing choices. None of those prophecies came true, but governments did gain a lot of power, and in places like India and Brazil, the UN and American “charities” like Planned Parenthood helped to sterilize millions of people by force. In China, the communist government, again with such agencies’ help, imposed the “one-child” policy, forcing millions of women to abort their children and provoking the “gendercide” of millions of baby girls. Now we learn that population is crashing around the world, and not enough workers will be paying taxes to support tomorrow’s elderly. So the generation that accepted population control and abortion will pay for it in their dotage. They won’t be cared for by grandchildren, but euthanized by robots. Today we’re told by the same cast of characters who touted the “population bomb” that the same long list of catastrophes they predicted last time really will happen after all unless we give them lots of power—only these same things will happen for a completely different reason: global warming. If the climate stabilized tomorrow, it wouldn’t be long before the international crisis lobby would be predicting the very same catastrophes, for still another reason. Maybe an impending attack by Smaug the Dragon. They’re always panicking about a different problem, but their solution is always the same: to shift
massive power from citizens to governments, and from democratically elected governments to unaccountable international agencies run by the same kind of people who mismanage the Olympics and the EU. That seems to be the constant of the “scientific consensus”: whatever is going on, it’s terrible and will kill us all quite soon, unless we hand over power to the nice men in the white coats and those troops in the blue helmets. Then we’ll be safe. There was concrete evidence supporting the population panic, too. The global population boom was real, but it was grossly misinterpreted and extrapolated by people with deeply engrained ideological agendas. Those—including popes Paul VI, St. John Paul II, and Benedict XVI—who noted this and challenged the “scientific consensus” that there would be massive overpopulation were dismissed as biased hacks or religious cranks. The irony is that the religious cranks are on the other side. Elites have used their media influence to create a quasi-religious movement among affluent secularists that lets people find redemption by joining the new, sacred cause. And indeed climate change activism has become a kind of cult, according to a detailed 260-page report by the National Association of Scholars documenting how college administrators are devoting (collectively) $3.4 billion per year to transforming curricula, facilities, and student activities at their schools in service of the fuzzy zealotry of “sustainability advocates,” who present their “solutions” to climate change as urgently necessary to “save the planet”(as college tuition has skyrocketed far beyond the rate of inflation, along with federal aid to colleges and student levels of debt). The doctrine of “sustainability,” which damns market freedom and the Western lifestyle as poisoners of the earth and enemies of our grandchildren, is drummed into students’ heads via courses in science, humanities, the arts, and even mathematics. As the NAS demonstrates, free speech is being restricted on college campuses, as those skeptical of the need for massive restrictions on the use of carbon-based fuels are prevented from speaking to students—sometimes by threats of physical violence from outraged activists. In past decades “socialism” and “zero population growth” were the beneficiaries of the same zealotry, with its disregard for facts and the need for free debate.
Zmirak, John. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism (The Politically Incorrect Guides) (pp. 241- 243). Regnery Publishing. Kindle Edition.
Thoughts?
massive power from citizens to governments, and from democratically elected governments to unaccountable international agencies run by the same kind of people who mismanage the Olympics and the EU. That seems to be the constant of the “scientific consensus”: whatever is going on, it’s terrible and will kill us all quite soon, unless we hand over power to the nice men in the white coats and those troops in the blue helmets. Then we’ll be safe. There was concrete evidence supporting the population panic, too. The global population boom was real, but it was grossly misinterpreted and extrapolated by people with deeply engrained ideological agendas. Those—including popes Paul VI, St. John Paul II, and Benedict XVI—who noted this and challenged the “scientific consensus” that there would be massive overpopulation were dismissed as biased hacks or religious cranks. The irony is that the religious cranks are on the other side. Elites have used their media influence to create a quasi-religious movement among affluent secularists that lets people find redemption by joining the new, sacred cause. And indeed climate change activism has become a kind of cult, according to a detailed 260-page report by the National Association of Scholars documenting how college administrators are devoting (collectively) $3.4 billion per year to transforming curricula, facilities, and student activities at their schools in service of the fuzzy zealotry of “sustainability advocates,” who present their “solutions” to climate change as urgently necessary to “save the planet”(as college tuition has skyrocketed far beyond the rate of inflation, along with federal aid to colleges and student levels of debt). The doctrine of “sustainability,” which damns market freedom and the Western lifestyle as poisoners of the earth and enemies of our grandchildren, is drummed into students’ heads via courses in science, humanities, the arts, and even mathematics. As the NAS demonstrates, free speech is being restricted on college campuses, as those skeptical of the need for massive restrictions on the use of carbon-based fuels are prevented from speaking to students—sometimes by threats of physical violence from outraged activists. In past decades “socialism” and “zero population growth” were the beneficiaries of the same zealotry, with its disregard for facts and the need for free debate.
Zmirak, John. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism (The Politically Incorrect Guides) (pp. 241- 243). Regnery Publishing. Kindle Edition.
Thoughts?