i’m an environmentalist from WAY back, and we never intended for any of this to be about “climate.” it was always about local issues like pollution, clear cutting, water usage. that started to change with “acid rain.” remember that? first they engineered a national crisis in acid rain, and now it’s global crisis with “climate change.” it’s irrationalism.
of course children are suffering depression/anxiety when they’re told they’re literally killing the earth. they deserve better than the musings of another child. they deserve not to be used as pawns in a global corporate swindle.
that is why they are calling for sacrifices! too many people, kill them ! that is what they stand for. Just read part of an article where crazy hotez wants to force vax everyone, and right after that the vax king fauxi proclaims he got the virus for the third time after 6 jabs. Make sense of that! they lost all strings to reality and are now like these 2 people up there in space, unable to reach them. (I hope the space people make it back to earth, and we can replace them with these 2 others.. good riddance)
i remember watching Wild Kingdom on Sunday night and every show had either an implicit or explicit warning about loss of habitat and extinction. there was always a “swell” where i loved watching them film the animals and then the despair for the same animals for losing their homes. it really affected me as a kid.
now imagine how kids are put thru this cycle every day with reminders that sea levels will take away our homes (i’m in FL)--or the planet will get too hot for life. i’d argue that’s too much existential angst to put on kids. it’s not healthy.
Throughout the Cold War kids grew up fearing nuclear annihilation at any moment. But since there was nothing they could really do about it they just more or less relegated it to the background and went on with their lives. What this woman needs is nuclear war to distract her from climate change--then, if she survives, she would have to worry about real environmental catastrophe.
Speaking of nuclear, the whole subject and theory of global warming was initially sponsored by the nuclear industry to steer the powers that be into the production of greenhouse gas-free nuclear energy. However, their theories were adopted by those who didn't want any practical energy and it backfired on the nuclear industry, especially in Germany of late.
Is this accurate? That global warming theory was sponsored by the nuclear industry? I ask only because it seems there's a direct line through history from the No Nukes movement (China Syndrome, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Brown, et. al.) and the nuclear freeze political movement of the early 80s (which bore the fingerprints of the Soviet KGB), straight to the climatistas of present day.
I recall reading that Margaret Thatcher’s government promulgated the CO2/global warming theory to soften the public to the idea of widespread use of nuclear power. They wanted energy independence in the same way France was achieving it by going with an extensive nuclear power program. This was in response to a period of oil insecurity that preceded the flow of North Sea oil that was soon to come.
Somehow or another both the nuclear fear and the global warming fears took hold simultaneously. That’s what I’ve read, anyway.
I don't think so. I worked in the nuclear industry from 1979 to 2012. About 12 years in marketing doing economic analysis showing the cost savings of nuclear power versus coal and later natural gas.
Eventually when CO2 became a thing nuclear added "no CO2" as a marketing theme. But, it was too late in the US and EU. Public opinion was opposed. We shifted our attention to Korea, Taiwan, and just at the end of my career China. They were still building nuclear plants.
The overblown hype on the "shrinking/destruction of the Great Barrier Reef" is a good example - the current size of which has never been larger or more alive.
I think the biggest threats a nuclear war and other forms of mass murder. The public genocide in Gaza is partly done as an exhibit: to show the world that if it has been done to them, we could just as easily do it to you.
I'm going to dare to suggest that nuclear war isn't as big a threat to the environment as everyone seems to believe. The United States and Russia control 95-97% of the world's nuclear weapons, and in no scenario that I can dream up are more than a handful actually used (both sides wishing to preserve the threat of launching more as a bargaining chip for future negotiations). Of course I'm assuming that the folks in control of the weapons are rational - which may simply be wishful thinking.
The problem with movements is, they have to rationalize their existence, so once one problem is addressed, they need to keep addressing new ones. When was the last time a government program closed because it was successful? And yet magically the problems they were created for keep getting worse.
I grew up in the seventies with Woodsy Owl, Smokey the Bear, and the Crying Native American"
Whenever I meet an activist, which is rarely these days, I like to ask them a question:
"What's your victory condition? What do you have to see in the world to wake up one morning, look in the mirror, say "fuck yeah, job's done", and then STOP DOING IT?"
I have yet to hear an answer that wasn't "no, we'll have to work for this forever". That's just a fancy way of saying you'll never achieve your goals, so what's the point of the work?
When the crows and foxes fight over the meat on the last human corpse.
So there'll be no climatists around to smirk and congratulate themselves that the "job's done". No doubt they see this as their tragic and noble destiny. It's the quiet part they don't often say out loud.
"Extinction Rebellion", some of them call themselves, hoping that people will think they're protesting against the prospect of human extinction, when that's actually what they want.
Maybe you're meeting different activists, but my point is that they neither know nor care what the answer is. Because for the activists I've met, it's not about solving the problem. It's about gaining the social status of being recognized as the person solving the problem. Its about being very publicly performative about how much you care about the world, as a way of saying you're better than me. Once the problem's solved, people forget about it and stop thinking you're better than me.
I suspect that among the left, particularly women on the left, activisim is almost entirely driven by their imagined superioriy, and the need to let everyone know.
"Look at me, look at me, I'm so noble, so aware of things the rabble can't begin to appreciate. Love me please, I'm so much better than everyone else."
God, my niece had a party with a floating shark because sharks are being killed. they're nice creatures don't you know? it was her 25 days of activism. she's back to watching housewives of [some town].
That’s it: They’re the ones doing the good work. They’re the ones who care.
Basically, they’re the ones who grew up overlooked. I know several poor wounded souls who grew up to become harsh and bossy moralists of the sort we’re seeing now in climate work… and those who hate Trump perhaps as well.
I’ve noticed this in other areas. One of them said this in response to my asking how long I’d need to go to therapy for a problem THEY had defined: You just have to keep going.
That’s when I realized they had lost touch with reality, as has the whole lot of them.
Women are the problem, but not all. In that latter boat I put myself. Men are not so much the problem but I do know several who could easily blend with the problem women.
I have never once in my adult life met a woman who was under 30, unmarried, and not a terrible human being.
I am making no claim about men. They're probably terrible too. I wouldn't know, I'm not, they don't run everything in society, and I'm not trying to date them
we’re the same age. when i was doing activism in college (mid-80s to early 90s) it was just me and my buddies from college raising hell about toxic waste sites in our watershed and bad forest management. it was mostly Catholics, Unitarians and Quakers who supported our work--and by “support” i don’t mean $$. they showed up and helped.
now ALL activism is funded by aristocrats and their institutions (it’s captured, in other words). Steyer, Bloomberg, Ford, Rockefeller--they literally get nothing done for the environment. it’s all about elections and election *spending.*
It's not about money laundering - that's what drug kingpins and corrupt government officials do. The big foundations and NGOs creating this mischief are tax shelters for billionaires. They need to be taxed. But good luck getting that through Congress.
They are not tax shelters. A tax shelter is a vehicle where you might get a tax deduction associated with an investment, and then you end up keeping the entire investment and even prosper from value appreciation from that investment (i.e., you get to keep the money you invested and then some). Donations to big foundations and NGOs may get a tax deduction up front, but the donor must part with the money to get that deduction, and they won't ever get the money back, much less any value appreciation on that donated money. Foundations also pay an excise tax on investment earnings and there are strict rules against self-dealing that, when violated, generate big financial penalties. So the donors, whomever they are, really need to believe in the cause of the foundation to whom they contribute. Consider it as them "putting their money where their virtue-signalling mouths are."
Most people forget too, that excessive donations by any one individual will get a restriction on the tax deduction: to the extent the donation exceeds 30% of their Adjusted Gross Income (when donated to a private foundation) - the excess amount is suspended and carried over to future years, but then expires completely after the fifth year if still unused.
I don't deny that the big foundations are creating the mischief, as you say, but the donors aren't getting a sweetheart deal. They are "paying for a deduction" - which as tax strategies go, is a complete loser. I have never, and would never, advise a client to pay money solely to obtain a tax deduction, as that will make my client poorer.
Allowing the child, or further descendant, of a high-net worth individual (who created the original wealth) to have the authority to give the money away (money that they had no hand in earning) is known as "wealth management malpractice." It encourages virtue signalling for its own sake as well as hubris.
{...Catholics, Unitarians and Quakers...} These are religious, philosophically oriented people that are able to see the "big picture", considering themselves as a tiny part of Mother Nature only.
"we never intended for any of this to be about “climate.” it was always about local issues like pollution, clear cutting, water usage. that started to change with “acid rain.”
As our concern for mitigating soil, air and water contamination grew, Brook, money began to flow in support of raising awareness and dealing with remediation. By means of those capital flows, environmentalism became an industry.
Where influence and wealth concentrates, predators and parasites congregate.
And congregate they have, collectively sequestering those capital flows. They discovered the "one ring to rule them all" in the "climate change" narrative.
When I saw attention being diverted away from localized efforts to balance human need with the requirement for clean water, air and soil, my suspicions were aroused as I followed the money. Subsequent events have proven those suspicions fully justified.
With the capital concentrations came political opportunism and it's evil twin; regulatory capture. Thus, another heavily-polluting industry was born, grew and is now "too big to fail."
Anyone working in the traditional polluting industries has made many adjustments in order to support mitigation of air, soil and water contamination. The regulatory weight has made doing business extremely complex and much, much more laborious on an everyday level. That is as it must be.
Instead of supporting cleaner industry, however, Clinton and Gore simply exported the pollution. It has now returned to our landfills, and the perfidy could not be allowed to enter mainstream public consciousness. The politicization has become complete, forming its own "feedback loop" of power and wealth shifts.
Pollution has been rebranded and continues apace, with the "one ring of power" now drawing the oxygen from the air in every discussion. meanwhile "clean" industry has become attractive because it's easier to do business. The opportunities for wealth transfer are too good to pass up, and the nouveau riche have seized power. They operate from self-interest, as do all, but they have successfully smothered all opposition with a mass delusion of benevolent philanthropy as guiding principle.
Being good stewards of the earth is very different than ridding the planet of life on Earth… to cede everything representing happiness, nurture, aspiration, love and purpose. To them. It’s all about power, greed, control and the abject narcissistic of godless megalomaniacal socio-psychopaths
The acid rain that was destroying the forests of New England were mostly from the coal fired power plants in Alberta. In the 1970's, Alberta started building nuclear power plants. They built one nuclear plant per year for over 10 years and eventually shit down the largest coal fired plants in Canada. This helped save the forests of New England.
After being ing service for more than 40 years and not adding who knows how many tons of CO² to the atmosphere, they are being taken out of service one at a time to be refurbished in order to get another 40 years of service from them. Alberta has one of the greenist grids in the world.
Dr Chris Keefer (the Decouple Podcast) has many podcasts covering the nuclear power industry. As an emergency room physician, he got involved because he saw the need for reliable power after the birth of his premature child that needed an incubator.
I'd almost forgotten about "acid rain". I actually believed that nonsense (but didn't worry about it much), and when it went away, I assumed that somehow the "problem" had been solved. Now I'm curious. What ever DID happen to "acid rain"?
Acid rain can be a local problem when there are concentrations of sulfur or nitrous oxides in the air. It was a problem near Los Angeles causing damage to forests for a while before better emissions controls on cars reduced nitrous oxide levels. Most acidic conditions in forests, however, are natural. Acid levels in lakes and streams usually result from rainwater percolating through leaf litter and the rotting remains of plants and trees.
What happened to acid rain was it lost its usefulness as a scare issue to harass the peasantry. Carbon dioxide became the predominant scare issue because it is such a powerful weapon against prosperity. The peasants have been far too prosperous and uppity at least since the 1950s, which makes them too difficult to control and threatens the sense of privilege of the elites (thus the elite contempt for ‘50s middle class culture).
Unlike other issues, the war on CO2 goes to the very root of the problem. Almost all activities that produce wealth and income produce the gas, so making it a boogeyman is the most effective way to attack and destroy the prosperity of the masses. The facts that CO2 levels are vanishingly tiny in comparison to other “greenhouse gases” such as water vapor, or that CO2 levels have been shown to be lagging indicators to changes in climate, or that the only evidence of the threat is computer models that show no predictive capability over time, are, of course, irrelevant.
A fatal attack at a remote radar site in the Canadian Arctic has highlighted growing concerns about increasing polar bear numbers.
The incident occurred last Thursday at an outpost on Brevoort Island, in Canada’s far northeastern Nunavut territory, where a pair of polar bears attacked and killed a worker, as reported by Nasittuq Corporation, the facility’s operator.
“Two polar bears attacked, resulting in the tragic loss of one of our valued employees,” wrote the logistics company in a statement. “Nasittuq employees responded swiftly to the situation, and one of the bears was subsequently put down.”
The recent surge in polar bear numbers has raised safety concerns, not only in Canada but also in Greenland, where there has been a notable increase in bear sightings onshore, most notably in East and Southwest regions.
The Polar Bear Specialist Group recently estimated the population in East Greenland at around 650 bears, far higher than expected. A study then identified an additional 234 bears in Southeast Greenland which, again, far exceeded earlier estimates.
Former Prime Minister of Greenland, Aleqa Hammond, has linked the rise in bear sightings and incidents near communities to the abundant sea ice offshore. Hammond noted that polar bears, which rarely venture into Southern or Western Greenland, have been spotted near towns and even close to Nuuk, Greenland’s capital.
The situation has become so critical that locals have had to shoot several bears for safety reasons, as they encroached on populated areas. The Greenlandic government is now under pressure to increase the annual hunting quota.
This is some twist to The Narrative, one that is still being peddled by the likes of the BBC and National Geographic even in 2024:"
Since Al Gore is sure the north pole region will be ice free and warm ,year round ,he may be buying up all the open water around the north pole together with Bill Gates for floating beach resorts .My next vacation is planed to the Gore wonderland in a bikini .
Al Gore is so worried about climate change that he has massive mansions in both Nashville and Los Angeles and flies a private jet between them. His annual electric bill for both homes is around the median salary in Tennessee.
He is in good company then, with Bill Gates (little cabin at Four Seasons Resort Estates , Nevis, West Indies), and Obama with his ocean front pad at Kaneohe, Oahu.
As we can see even polar bears enjoy milder weather by breading more and thriving .Warm means life ,cold means death . Nothing is better for us all ,than more Carbon .
More CO2 in the air means faster plant growth… and therefore easier to grow food… and also more CO2 uptake. The planet is well designed to self regulate.
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The claim that "Animal X numbers are declining" has always been bogus - or at best oversimplified - since in a complex food web, numbers are always increasing and decreasing cyclically based on predator-prey relationships.
But who, I ask--WHO?--can minister to poor eugyppius for his pain, fear, and anger stemming from his exposure to this drivel? His sacrifice in doing this is on par with the most notable martyrs in all of history.
I am glad I am a gramma now. We grew up in a great world in the 60s and 70s
Now it is just media hyped trash. Most of the millennial generation is suffering a bit of anxiety about really nothing, but it is the "nothing' that worries them. A hopeless life filled with scolding and shaming
I have become so radicalized on this subject that, should I ever find another date in my life, I will tell her she must delete all of her social media if she wants to be in a relationship with me.
Staring at bullshit in the nightmare rectangle for hours a day is breaking people, and there's no room in my life for broken people. I'm broken enough already
That's why as a young man I decided to get a Ph.D. and work in academia. I idealized it, thinking I would be working among the best and the brightest. Instead, once I become "educated" I found the truth was that I was working with narcissistic, delusional specialists, who outside of their fields of expertise, are just as dumb as the next guy - probably dumber.
Amen. My experience completely. Narrow minded, self absorbed "academics" who think they know not only everything about their own fields of specialization, but also about every other thing under the sun.
"What is almost too much to bear, is the additional humiliating fact that the most vocal advocates for the engineered destruction of our civilisation turn out to be such empty-headed nitwits. The cartoonish banality of this idiot woman’s thought is an absolute disgrace."
It is an absolute, humiliating disgrace, and it had a simple solution. It still does: "I saw that there comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win—and that no manner of injury done to him by others can succeed if he chooses to withhold his consent. I saw that I could put an end to [the] outrages by pronouncing a single word in my mind. I pronounced it. The word was 'No.'"
It's going to be a lot harder now than it was fifty years ago when normal people allowed themselves to accept that owning a refrigerator makes them guilty of raping Gaia. It's always easier to eradicate a cancer before it metastasizes, but it's also not too late. No one rules if no one obeys. And if you think the parasite class is any smarter than the dipshit who wrote that chapter, think again. These people are idiots. They're zeroes. No one with a life of his own spends all that effort trying to influence and control other people--and the weather, FFS. Maybe the most important thing to remember about the climate scam is that it's no different from the covid scam, or the racism one, or the immigration one, or anything else these people trot out to guilt you into spreading their death cult: At the end of the day they're all just pretexts for the agenda of global collectivism. The pretexts can't be fought on the merits because your opponents don't give a crap about facts, and besides: With collectivists, the issue is never the issue. The battle is ideological and has to be fought on principle, because there's one principle that applies to every scheme that they'll throw at you. The principle is that you are not the means to anyone else's ends. You are an end in yourself. Your opponents won't be convinced of that, either, but you don't have to convince them. You just have to know it yourself and then act on it, starting with saying, "No."
I was expressing to a dinner guest my admiration for package designers who make products easier to use (e.g., the plastic screw cap on waxed milk cartons which have done away with the enraging tussle with the old pinch-to-open spout ends, the wide flat caps on toothpaste that let you stand them on end, etc.) She said that she would never, ever use such products because they create more plastic waste. What can you do with such dreary condescending assholes--and sitting at the dinner table, too? Since I had driven her about that day I considered suggesting that she walk the four miles home because I didn't want to pollute more than necessary. She is also an avid masker so the whole plastic-sparing smuggery I put down to the unexamined hostility that always simmers beneath spiteful beliefs and bullshit morality.
I wonder what she has to say about the rich Arabs of Saudi Arabia and UAE. Are they "old white men of privilege" too? There's a lot of consumption and consumerism going on over in the Middle East, and in the Far East, for that matter. What does she think of the consumerism of China, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea?
I worked in Saudi Arabia for 8 years. It was not uncommon to see a new looking Mercedes or some such abandoned in the desert because it broke down. The owner would just go out and buy a new one, leaving the old one out there to rust. The Saudis didn't repair anything, just toss the item and replace it. What would Princess Katharina have to say about that practice?
There would be occasional rain, and the Eastern Province where I lived was very humid, so rust happened. The desert sands would shift and I've seen cars partially buried and full of sand. There weren't any government entities to remove such cars, either. They mostly just stayed where they were abandoned.
As an aside, I had a Toyota Corona station wagon, got it brand new, and after 8 years when I left, the entire bottom 12 inches or so of the back trunk door part was so rusted that it was about to just break off entirely. Rust.
Arabs (rich or otherwise) are Far Group not Outgroup: for the Outgroup nothing but full-frontal hatred, but the Far Group only exists when it can be weaponized to attack the Outgroup.
In the case of white Western liberals, Arabs only have a symbolic value as non-white, possibly oppressed, foreigners, sans agency and responsibility.
If they're not helpless victims/migrants with starving and/or bleeding children perfect for a photo op and a donation pitch, they don't exist.
Truly I don't want to insult your magnificent language but to my American sensibilities the title and subtitle of her book in German are just so much more ridiculous-looking. Please don't hold this against me.
And further--this is what has come of well over a century of valorizing head doctors and their lesser species psychologists, or in other words navel-gazer specialists. RD Laing, that moron, and his influences, and Thomas Szasz, that moron, and of course Freud, that moron--they paved the way for idiots like this girl, perfectly described by you in this piece with the bestest level of scorn and contempt--to be able to claim professional legitimacy. She needs to be locked in a room with The Three Spinning Fairies and a pile of yarn until she learns to do something useful with her hands.
I agree with you about the general uselessness of the psych professions. In some situations and for some people it can be helpful, but is in general highly overrated.
You're entirely correct that people like this need to learn to do something useful with their hands.
BAP talks a bit about how the purpose of a civilization—that is, what it actually does—is to select for and create a certain type of person. That our current world is oriented in such a way to select for these aggressively mediocre (mostly) women is as searing an indictment of Clown World as exists. One cannot help but laugh.
Generally, but not necessarily. There are varying degrees of mediocrity, and I think that one who's mediocracy rises above others would be outstandingly mediocre. BTW, it was an intentional contradiction of terms - my failed attempt at tongue-in-cheek humor.
As exemplified in the US presidential race by the Harris/Walz campaign, it's all about feelings. This is how they can believe that optics trumps reality. Reality is the Tinkerbell that will exist if you only believe hard enough.
"At the top of his first speech as her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz turned to Harris and declared, “Thank you for bringing back the joy.” The next day, Harris took the theme a step further, branding the Democratic ticket “joyful warriors.”
Please make it stop...I'm exhausted. "Joy" as a campaign slogan.
This "joy" stuff can be turned into a really effective ad campaign for the opposition. Show pictures of suffering American while hearing Waltz and others talking about "Joy".
I spent my childhood in the U.K. and yes, "gay" was the word I learned to mean happy and joyful. I also learned what I guess was a slang word for cigarette: fags. These words weren't used in the U.S., however.
It's concerning to note that this woman exhibits severe signs of malignant Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). Professor Egyppius, are we truly so powerless that we cannot prevent our own downfall?
I've experienced firsthand just how challenging it is to resist the globalist agenda.
i’m an environmentalist from WAY back, and we never intended for any of this to be about “climate.” it was always about local issues like pollution, clear cutting, water usage. that started to change with “acid rain.” remember that? first they engineered a national crisis in acid rain, and now it’s global crisis with “climate change.” it’s irrationalism.
of course children are suffering depression/anxiety when they’re told they’re literally killing the earth. they deserve better than the musings of another child. they deserve not to be used as pawns in a global corporate swindle.
they might as well be saying “you’ve angered the Sun Gods” b/c that’s the level of bullshit we’re dealing with.
that is why they are calling for sacrifices! too many people, kill them ! that is what they stand for. Just read part of an article where crazy hotez wants to force vax everyone, and right after that the vax king fauxi proclaims he got the virus for the third time after 6 jabs. Make sense of that! they lost all strings to reality and are now like these 2 people up there in space, unable to reach them. (I hope the space people make it back to earth, and we can replace them with these 2 others.. good riddance)
"Climate change" actually IS a god to them, sad to say.
i remember watching Wild Kingdom on Sunday night and every show had either an implicit or explicit warning about loss of habitat and extinction. there was always a “swell” where i loved watching them film the animals and then the despair for the same animals for losing their homes. it really affected me as a kid.
now imagine how kids are put thru this cycle every day with reminders that sea levels will take away our homes (i’m in FL)--or the planet will get too hot for life. i’d argue that’s too much existential angst to put on kids. it’s not healthy.
Throughout the Cold War kids grew up fearing nuclear annihilation at any moment. But since there was nothing they could really do about it they just more or less relegated it to the background and went on with their lives. What this woman needs is nuclear war to distract her from climate change--then, if she survives, she would have to worry about real environmental catastrophe.
Speaking of nuclear, the whole subject and theory of global warming was initially sponsored by the nuclear industry to steer the powers that be into the production of greenhouse gas-free nuclear energy. However, their theories were adopted by those who didn't want any practical energy and it backfired on the nuclear industry, especially in Germany of late.
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Is this accurate? That global warming theory was sponsored by the nuclear industry? I ask only because it seems there's a direct line through history from the No Nukes movement (China Syndrome, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Brown, et. al.) and the nuclear freeze political movement of the early 80s (which bore the fingerprints of the Soviet KGB), straight to the climatistas of present day.
I recall reading that Margaret Thatcher’s government promulgated the CO2/global warming theory to soften the public to the idea of widespread use of nuclear power. They wanted energy independence in the same way France was achieving it by going with an extensive nuclear power program. This was in response to a period of oil insecurity that preceded the flow of North Sea oil that was soon to come.
Somehow or another both the nuclear fear and the global warming fears took hold simultaneously. That’s what I’ve read, anyway.
I don't think so. I worked in the nuclear industry from 1979 to 2012. About 12 years in marketing doing economic analysis showing the cost savings of nuclear power versus coal and later natural gas.
Eventually when CO2 became a thing nuclear added "no CO2" as a marketing theme. But, it was too late in the US and EU. Public opinion was opposed. We shifted our attention to Korea, Taiwan, and just at the end of my career China. They were still building nuclear plants.
The overblown hype on the "shrinking/destruction of the Great Barrier Reef" is a good example - the current size of which has never been larger or more alive.
I heard that. so not true. great gods, the liars manipulate truth to their service.
Regarding sea levels, here’s NOAA’s official take: https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends.html
About a foot per century, it turns out.
We must beat ourselves and sacrifice the poor nations of the earth to appease the CO2 God.
More likely the blood of slaughtered babies.
Ecology 101, agreed.
The biggest threats are toxic pollution, not life giving CO2.
I think the biggest threats a nuclear war and other forms of mass murder. The public genocide in Gaza is partly done as an exhibit: to show the world that if it has been done to them, we could just as easily do it to you.
I'm going to dare to suggest that nuclear war isn't as big a threat to the environment as everyone seems to believe. The United States and Russia control 95-97% of the world's nuclear weapons, and in no scenario that I can dream up are more than a handful actually used (both sides wishing to preserve the threat of launching more as a bargaining chip for future negotiations). Of course I'm assuming that the folks in control of the weapons are rational - which may simply be wishful thinking.
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The problem with movements is, they have to rationalize their existence, so once one problem is addressed, they need to keep addressing new ones. When was the last time a government program closed because it was successful? And yet magically the problems they were created for keep getting worse.
I grew up in the seventies with Woodsy Owl, Smokey the Bear, and the Crying Native American"
Whenever I meet an activist, which is rarely these days, I like to ask them a question:
"What's your victory condition? What do you have to see in the world to wake up one morning, look in the mirror, say "fuck yeah, job's done", and then STOP DOING IT?"
I have yet to hear an answer that wasn't "no, we'll have to work for this forever". That's just a fancy way of saying you'll never achieve your goals, so what's the point of the work?
"What's your victory condition?"
When the crows and foxes fight over the meat on the last human corpse.
So there'll be no climatists around to smirk and congratulate themselves that the "job's done". No doubt they see this as their tragic and noble destiny. It's the quiet part they don't often say out loud.
"Extinction Rebellion", some of them call themselves, hoping that people will think they're protesting against the prospect of human extinction, when that's actually what they want.
Maybe you're meeting different activists, but my point is that they neither know nor care what the answer is. Because for the activists I've met, it's not about solving the problem. It's about gaining the social status of being recognized as the person solving the problem. Its about being very publicly performative about how much you care about the world, as a way of saying you're better than me. Once the problem's solved, people forget about it and stop thinking you're better than me.
I suspect that among the left, particularly women on the left, activisim is almost entirely driven by their imagined superioriy, and the need to let everyone know.
"Look at me, look at me, I'm so noble, so aware of things the rabble can't begin to appreciate. Love me please, I'm so much better than everyone else."
See above comment. Put it in wrong place.
God, my niece had a party with a floating shark because sharks are being killed. they're nice creatures don't you know? it was her 25 days of activism. she's back to watching housewives of [some town].
That’s it: They’re the ones doing the good work. They’re the ones who care.
Basically, they’re the ones who grew up overlooked. I know several poor wounded souls who grew up to become harsh and bossy moralists of the sort we’re seeing now in climate work… and those who hate Trump perhaps as well.
Brilliant summary, Rocio.
In other words, they don’t want to kill the job…
My question for them is who is paying YOUR paycheck? 🤔💩💩💩
I’ve noticed this in other areas. One of them said this in response to my asking how long I’d need to go to therapy for a problem THEY had defined: You just have to keep going.
That’s when I realized they had lost touch with reality, as has the whole lot of them.
Therapy? You mean paying money to talk to liberals until you agree with them?
Literally women are the problem. We will not be free until the streets are littered with their corpses.
Yes, that’s what she wanted.
Women are the problem, but not all. In that latter boat I put myself. Men are not so much the problem but I do know several who could easily blend with the problem women.
I have never once in my adult life met a woman who was under 30, unmarried, and not a terrible human being.
I am making no claim about men. They're probably terrible too. I wouldn't know, I'm not, they don't run everything in society, and I'm not trying to date them
Just like all the new wars are designed to last as long as possible. They're all jobs programs.
Bureaucracies love insoluble problems. A permanent crisis can justify their existence indefinitely.
we’re the same age. when i was doing activism in college (mid-80s to early 90s) it was just me and my buddies from college raising hell about toxic waste sites in our watershed and bad forest management. it was mostly Catholics, Unitarians and Quakers who supported our work--and by “support” i don’t mean $$. they showed up and helped.
now ALL activism is funded by aristocrats and their institutions (it’s captured, in other words). Steyer, Bloomberg, Ford, Rockefeller--they literally get nothing done for the environment. it’s all about elections and election *spending.*
It’s all about the money laundering.
It's not about money laundering - that's what drug kingpins and corrupt government officials do. The big foundations and NGOs creating this mischief are tax shelters for billionaires. They need to be taxed. But good luck getting that through Congress.
They are not tax shelters. A tax shelter is a vehicle where you might get a tax deduction associated with an investment, and then you end up keeping the entire investment and even prosper from value appreciation from that investment (i.e., you get to keep the money you invested and then some). Donations to big foundations and NGOs may get a tax deduction up front, but the donor must part with the money to get that deduction, and they won't ever get the money back, much less any value appreciation on that donated money. Foundations also pay an excise tax on investment earnings and there are strict rules against self-dealing that, when violated, generate big financial penalties. So the donors, whomever they are, really need to believe in the cause of the foundation to whom they contribute. Consider it as them "putting their money where their virtue-signalling mouths are."
Most people forget too, that excessive donations by any one individual will get a restriction on the tax deduction: to the extent the donation exceeds 30% of their Adjusted Gross Income (when donated to a private foundation) - the excess amount is suspended and carried over to future years, but then expires completely after the fifth year if still unused.
I don't deny that the big foundations are creating the mischief, as you say, but the donors aren't getting a sweetheart deal. They are "paying for a deduction" - which as tax strategies go, is a complete loser. I have never, and would never, advise a client to pay money solely to obtain a tax deduction, as that will make my client poorer.
And don't forget Aileen Getty, heiress to the Getty oil fortune, funding the nutbags in Europe gluing themselves to highways.
Allowing the child, or further descendant, of a high-net worth individual (who created the original wealth) to have the authority to give the money away (money that they had no hand in earning) is known as "wealth management malpractice." It encourages virtue signalling for its own sake as well as hubris.
BINGO !!!
{...Catholics, Unitarians and Quakers...} These are religious, philosophically oriented people that are able to see the "big picture", considering themselves as a tiny part of Mother Nature only.
Brave people, along with Mennonites and Amish !!!
however misinformed.
Steyer is the worst offender.
I recently learned he was not a crying Indian.He was in fact a crying Italian guy, they Have been lying to us all along.
In fairness, he was an actor in a commercial. Hollywood has substituted other ethnics for Native Americans for generations.
"we never intended for any of this to be about “climate.” it was always about local issues like pollution, clear cutting, water usage. that started to change with “acid rain.”
As our concern for mitigating soil, air and water contamination grew, Brook, money began to flow in support of raising awareness and dealing with remediation. By means of those capital flows, environmentalism became an industry.
Where influence and wealth concentrates, predators and parasites congregate.
And congregate they have, collectively sequestering those capital flows. They discovered the "one ring to rule them all" in the "climate change" narrative.
When I saw attention being diverted away from localized efforts to balance human need with the requirement for clean water, air and soil, my suspicions were aroused as I followed the money. Subsequent events have proven those suspicions fully justified.
With the capital concentrations came political opportunism and it's evil twin; regulatory capture. Thus, another heavily-polluting industry was born, grew and is now "too big to fail."
Anyone working in the traditional polluting industries has made many adjustments in order to support mitigation of air, soil and water contamination. The regulatory weight has made doing business extremely complex and much, much more laborious on an everyday level. That is as it must be.
Instead of supporting cleaner industry, however, Clinton and Gore simply exported the pollution. It has now returned to our landfills, and the perfidy could not be allowed to enter mainstream public consciousness. The politicization has become complete, forming its own "feedback loop" of power and wealth shifts.
Pollution has been rebranded and continues apace, with the "one ring of power" now drawing the oxygen from the air in every discussion. meanwhile "clean" industry has become attractive because it's easier to do business. The opportunities for wealth transfer are too good to pass up, and the nouveau riche have seized power. They operate from self-interest, as do all, but they have successfully smothered all opposition with a mass delusion of benevolent philanthropy as guiding principle.
An anthropomorphic climate change right wing denier agrees 100% with you.
'Anthropogenic' is the word you need.
Being good stewards of the earth is very different than ridding the planet of life on Earth… to cede everything representing happiness, nurture, aspiration, love and purpose. To them. It’s all about power, greed, control and the abject narcissistic of godless megalomaniacal socio-psychopaths
The acid rain that was destroying the forests of New England were mostly from the coal fired power plants in Alberta. In the 1970's, Alberta started building nuclear power plants. They built one nuclear plant per year for over 10 years and eventually shit down the largest coal fired plants in Canada. This helped save the forests of New England.
After being ing service for more than 40 years and not adding who knows how many tons of CO² to the atmosphere, they are being taken out of service one at a time to be refurbished in order to get another 40 years of service from them. Alberta has one of the greenist grids in the world.
Dr Chris Keefer (the Decouple Podcast) has many podcasts covering the nuclear power industry. As an emergency room physician, he got involved because he saw the need for reliable power after the birth of his premature child that needed an incubator.
I'd almost forgotten about "acid rain". I actually believed that nonsense (but didn't worry about it much), and when it went away, I assumed that somehow the "problem" had been solved. Now I'm curious. What ever DID happen to "acid rain"?
Acid rain can be a local problem when there are concentrations of sulfur or nitrous oxides in the air. It was a problem near Los Angeles causing damage to forests for a while before better emissions controls on cars reduced nitrous oxide levels. Most acidic conditions in forests, however, are natural. Acid levels in lakes and streams usually result from rainwater percolating through leaf litter and the rotting remains of plants and trees.
What happened to acid rain was it lost its usefulness as a scare issue to harass the peasantry. Carbon dioxide became the predominant scare issue because it is such a powerful weapon against prosperity. The peasants have been far too prosperous and uppity at least since the 1950s, which makes them too difficult to control and threatens the sense of privilege of the elites (thus the elite contempt for ‘50s middle class culture).
Unlike other issues, the war on CO2 goes to the very root of the problem. Almost all activities that produce wealth and income produce the gas, so making it a boogeyman is the most effective way to attack and destroy the prosperity of the masses. The facts that CO2 levels are vanishingly tiny in comparison to other “greenhouse gases” such as water vapor, or that CO2 levels have been shown to be lagging indicators to changes in climate, or that the only evidence of the threat is computer models that show no predictive capability over time, are, of course, irrelevant.
Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth predicted disappearance of Polar Bears. Today I read this on Electroverse:
"DEADLY POLAR BEAR ATTACK HIGHLIGHTS GROWING THREAT
A fatal attack at a remote radar site in the Canadian Arctic has highlighted growing concerns about increasing polar bear numbers.
The incident occurred last Thursday at an outpost on Brevoort Island, in Canada’s far northeastern Nunavut territory, where a pair of polar bears attacked and killed a worker, as reported by Nasittuq Corporation, the facility’s operator.
“Two polar bears attacked, resulting in the tragic loss of one of our valued employees,” wrote the logistics company in a statement. “Nasittuq employees responded swiftly to the situation, and one of the bears was subsequently put down.”
The recent surge in polar bear numbers has raised safety concerns, not only in Canada but also in Greenland, where there has been a notable increase in bear sightings onshore, most notably in East and Southwest regions.
The Polar Bear Specialist Group recently estimated the population in East Greenland at around 650 bears, far higher than expected. A study then identified an additional 234 bears in Southeast Greenland which, again, far exceeded earlier estimates.
Former Prime Minister of Greenland, Aleqa Hammond, has linked the rise in bear sightings and incidents near communities to the abundant sea ice offshore. Hammond noted that polar bears, which rarely venture into Southern or Western Greenland, have been spotted near towns and even close to Nuuk, Greenland’s capital.
The situation has become so critical that locals have had to shoot several bears for safety reasons, as they encroached on populated areas. The Greenlandic government is now under pressure to increase the annual hunting quota.
This is some twist to The Narrative, one that is still being peddled by the likes of the BBC and National Geographic even in 2024:"
Al Gore. The original quack.
Since Al Gore is sure the north pole region will be ice free and warm ,year round ,he may be buying up all the open water around the north pole together with Bill Gates for floating beach resorts .My next vacation is planed to the Gore wonderland in a bikini .
JOE stuerzl in a bikini ...🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wonderland indeed !!!
Well, I am sure you will be wonderful in a bikini.
Al Gore is certainly a wonderful sales person - the only issue is he only ever sells his own skills.
Al Gore is so worried about climate change that he has massive mansions in both Nashville and Los Angeles and flies a private jet between them. His annual electric bill for both homes is around the median salary in Tennessee.
He is in good company then, with Bill Gates (little cabin at Four Seasons Resort Estates , Nevis, West Indies), and Obama with his ocean front pad at Kaneohe, Oahu.
He’s a very rich quack 🤑🔥🔥🔥
As we can see even polar bears enjoy milder weather by breading more and thriving .Warm means life ,cold means death . Nothing is better for us all ,than more Carbon .
More CO2 in the air means faster plant growth… and therefore easier to grow food… and also more CO2 uptake. The planet is well designed to self regulate.
I'm still waiting for the "ice free" Artic Sea so I can buy some land up there and build a seaside resort.
I used to say this as a joke, but the more I think about it, the more I mean it literally:
You know how I know climate change is fake? If it was real, Canada would be promoting it as hard as possible, not trying to stop it
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The claim that "Animal X numbers are declining" has always been bogus - or at best oversimplified - since in a complex food web, numbers are always increasing and decreasing cyclically based on predator-prey relationships.
You could say that people are being All Gored
But who, I ask--WHO?--can minister to poor eugyppius for his pain, fear, and anger stemming from his exposure to this drivel? His sacrifice in doing this is on par with the most notable martyrs in all of history.
Except we are all subjected to it. If I was going to declare a pandemic, it would be an ideological mind virus growing like mold throughout the world.
Hey, I never expected to get such awesomely hilarious posts when I paid my subscription, so I definitely hope he continues to expose this drivel.
We can all help: Upgrade to founding.
These people are so clueless. They have the minds of children.
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed"
- G.K. Chesterton
And they also tell children never go into a house made of candy.It will not end well
The brainwashing 🧠 and dumbing down-down of our young people continues to reach new heights 😔.
Social media, establishment media, and now AI are the main culprits.
Damn straight.
Cell phones and fast food are the new bread and circus.
All of this nonsense is to distract from the plundering (and asinine policies) of these parasitical plutocrats
yep.
I am glad I am a gramma now. We grew up in a great world in the 60s and 70s
Now it is just media hyped trash. Most of the millennial generation is suffering a bit of anxiety about really nothing, but it is the "nothing' that worries them. A hopeless life filled with scolding and shaming
I have become so radicalized on this subject that, should I ever find another date in my life, I will tell her she must delete all of her social media if she wants to be in a relationship with me.
Staring at bullshit in the nightmare rectangle for hours a day is breaking people, and there's no room in my life for broken people. I'm broken enough already
Lolol
These are the sorts of people who “rise” to the top of technocracies.
yes.
"Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."
That's why as a young man I decided to get a Ph.D. and work in academia. I idealized it, thinking I would be working among the best and the brightest. Instead, once I become "educated" I found the truth was that I was working with narcissistic, delusional specialists, who outside of their fields of expertise, are just as dumb as the next guy - probably dumber.
Amen. My experience completely. Narrow minded, self absorbed "academics" who think they know not only everything about their own fields of specialization, but also about every other thing under the sun.
Definitely dumber.
I’ve never seen that quote, but I am going to use it all of the time.
I can see her taking to stage as a 'Young WEF Leader' in not so distant future.
She’s likely already an inductee.
This is what makes them so terribly dangerous.
See the quote by CS Lewis on robber barons vs moral busybodies.
narcissis super omnia
"What is almost too much to bear, is the additional humiliating fact that the most vocal advocates for the engineered destruction of our civilisation turn out to be such empty-headed nitwits. The cartoonish banality of this idiot woman’s thought is an absolute disgrace."
It is an absolute, humiliating disgrace, and it had a simple solution. It still does: "I saw that there comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win—and that no manner of injury done to him by others can succeed if he chooses to withhold his consent. I saw that I could put an end to [the] outrages by pronouncing a single word in my mind. I pronounced it. The word was 'No.'"
It's going to be a lot harder now than it was fifty years ago when normal people allowed themselves to accept that owning a refrigerator makes them guilty of raping Gaia. It's always easier to eradicate a cancer before it metastasizes, but it's also not too late. No one rules if no one obeys. And if you think the parasite class is any smarter than the dipshit who wrote that chapter, think again. These people are idiots. They're zeroes. No one with a life of his own spends all that effort trying to influence and control other people--and the weather, FFS. Maybe the most important thing to remember about the climate scam is that it's no different from the covid scam, or the racism one, or the immigration one, or anything else these people trot out to guilt you into spreading their death cult: At the end of the day they're all just pretexts for the agenda of global collectivism. The pretexts can't be fought on the merits because your opponents don't give a crap about facts, and besides: With collectivists, the issue is never the issue. The battle is ideological and has to be fought on principle, because there's one principle that applies to every scheme that they'll throw at you. The principle is that you are not the means to anyone else's ends. You are an end in yourself. Your opponents won't be convinced of that, either, but you don't have to convince them. You just have to know it yourself and then act on it, starting with saying, "No."
Bravo!
I was expressing to a dinner guest my admiration for package designers who make products easier to use (e.g., the plastic screw cap on waxed milk cartons which have done away with the enraging tussle with the old pinch-to-open spout ends, the wide flat caps on toothpaste that let you stand them on end, etc.) She said that she would never, ever use such products because they create more plastic waste. What can you do with such dreary condescending assholes--and sitting at the dinner table, too? Since I had driven her about that day I considered suggesting that she walk the four miles home because I didn't want to pollute more than necessary. She is also an avid masker so the whole plastic-sparing smuggery I put down to the unexamined hostility that always simmers beneath spiteful beliefs and bullshit morality.
I hate sounding misogistic, but is it just me, or are most of the egregiously woke nutjobs, and climatistas, women?
I know a few man who take it deadly serious. One of them even berated his sister for having the audacity to fly to visit her children who live abroad.
That's a fair observation. Never heard a man whine or wag his finger about plastic caps.
I wonder what she has to say about the rich Arabs of Saudi Arabia and UAE. Are they "old white men of privilege" too? There's a lot of consumption and consumerism going on over in the Middle East, and in the Far East, for that matter. What does she think of the consumerism of China, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea?
I worked in Saudi Arabia for 8 years. It was not uncommon to see a new looking Mercedes or some such abandoned in the desert because it broke down. The owner would just go out and buy a new one, leaving the old one out there to rust. The Saudis didn't repair anything, just toss the item and replace it. What would Princess Katharina have to say about that practice?
Needs rain to rust.
There would be occasional rain, and the Eastern Province where I lived was very humid, so rust happened. The desert sands would shift and I've seen cars partially buried and full of sand. There weren't any government entities to remove such cars, either. They mostly just stayed where they were abandoned.
As an aside, I had a Toyota Corona station wagon, got it brand new, and after 8 years when I left, the entire bottom 12 inches or so of the back trunk door part was so rusted that it was about to just break off entirely. Rust.
Arabs (rich or otherwise) are Far Group not Outgroup: for the Outgroup nothing but full-frontal hatred, but the Far Group only exists when it can be weaponized to attack the Outgroup.
In the case of white Western liberals, Arabs only have a symbolic value as non-white, possibly oppressed, foreigners, sans agency and responsibility.
If they're not helpless victims/migrants with starving and/or bleeding children perfect for a photo op and a donation pitch, they don't exist.
Truly I don't want to insult your magnificent language but to my American sensibilities the title and subtitle of her book in German are just so much more ridiculous-looking. Please don't hold this against me.
And further--this is what has come of well over a century of valorizing head doctors and their lesser species psychologists, or in other words navel-gazer specialists. RD Laing, that moron, and his influences, and Thomas Szasz, that moron, and of course Freud, that moron--they paved the way for idiots like this girl, perfectly described by you in this piece with the bestest level of scorn and contempt--to be able to claim professional legitimacy. She needs to be locked in a room with The Three Spinning Fairies and a pile of yarn until she learns to do something useful with her hands.
I agree with you about the general uselessness of the psych professions. In some situations and for some people it can be helpful, but is in general highly overrated.
You're entirely correct that people like this need to learn to do something useful with their hands.
Malignant boredom is endemic everywhere.
in the case of this author, I really wish the world would "relearn oppression."
Brilliant. Hilarious. Spot on. Your essay is a model of how we should have been responding to the eco-fascists decades ago.
BAP talks a bit about how the purpose of a civilization—that is, what it actually does—is to select for and create a certain type of person. That our current world is oriented in such a way to select for these aggressively mediocre (mostly) women is as searing an indictment of Clown World as exists. One cannot help but laugh.
"aggressively mediocre"
😆
How about "outstandingly mediocre"?
I like 'aggressively'. Nothing about these people is 'outstanding' which generally connotes something good.
Generally, but not necessarily. There are varying degrees of mediocrity, and I think that one who's mediocracy rises above others would be outstandingly mediocre. BTW, it was an intentional contradiction of terms - my failed attempt at tongue-in-cheek humor.
I do appreciate the humor!
I shall confess that I eventually couldn't quite read all the way through this post. Truly impressed you're able to read her book.
As exemplified in the US presidential race by the Harris/Walz campaign, it's all about feelings. This is how they can believe that optics trumps reality. Reality is the Tinkerbell that will exist if you only believe hard enough.
I'm a cranky old fart. Gimme some *facts*.
Per the AP-
"At the top of his first speech as her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz turned to Harris and declared, “Thank you for bringing back the joy.” The next day, Harris took the theme a step further, branding the Democratic ticket “joyful warriors.”
Please make it stop...I'm exhausted. "Joy" as a campaign slogan.
🤮🤮 to both of those morons.
No doubt carefully chosen by marketing propaganda experts, focus groups, and consultants.
there are a lot, probably 80% of the world are people seeking joy.
the media will spoon feed this
Yeah, well, "joy" is pretty vague ;)
This "joy" stuff can be turned into a really effective ad campaign for the opposition. Show pictures of suffering American while hearing Waltz and others talking about "Joy".
Didn't "gay" used to mean "joyful" in english?
(Not a native english speaker.)
I'm asking because I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if it came out (sic!) that they had wanted to call it "Gay Warriors" originally.
"Gay Warriors". . . if they ever make a sequel to "The Warriors", that'll be the title.
I spent my childhood in the U.K. and yes, "gay" was the word I learned to mean happy and joyful. I also learned what I guess was a slang word for cigarette: fags. These words weren't used in the U.S., however.
The rainbow also used to mean Christianity, but the f*****s stole that one too
Yeah, YHWE's sign to Noah, wasn't it?
To me Regnbågen (the rainbow) is Bifrost, the Bridge between Worlds, guarded by Heimdall, who can hear the grass grow and see beyond the horizon.
Your understanding of gay is correct.
Horse semen Walz… 🤮
"Gimme some *facts*."
Okay.
If you rub a mosquito-bite with a stinging nettle, the itch from the bite goes away.
Rikard. Barely seen a mosquito or any other insect this year so can't try your remedy
CBD cream with camphor and menthol works too… 👍🏽
It's all a question of priorities 😬
It's concerning to note that this woman exhibits severe signs of malignant Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). Professor Egyppius, are we truly so powerless that we cannot prevent our own downfall?
I've experienced firsthand just how challenging it is to resist the globalist agenda.
[https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/heresy]
[https://www.kritischegesellschaftsforschung.de/Journal/Article/65/50/pdf]