When the same anti-energy green leadership has shifted to calling for building out new power plants, nuclear power and even the yucky carbo type to power AI Data Centers it kinda makes the entire green de-industrialization concept disintegrate into the nothingness it came from.
When we're being told we must change our thermostats, shiver in cold in sweaters inside our homes or suffer in heat with open windows, drive toy cars for 15-minutes and all of the tokens of repentance, sacrifice while massive computers (intended to be our 'invisible' prison guards) get new energy sources built, new water sources diverted, etc, it becomes a difficult pill to swallow for even the most committed greenie.
Unfortunately, many proponents of "green" policies actually do get to ignore the effects of ignoring reality because they don't usually bear the brunt of the costs. This is precisely why so many of the people who claim they care about the climate travel in private jets.
The best thing about Trump's speech to the UN is that it was made off-the-cuff, after his teleprompter mysteriously failed. If the failure was due to mischief by UN staff, then they must have quickly regretted it. Trump unleashed one of his greatest speeches ever, aimed directly at the asshole globalists who run the UN. (Shout out to eugyppius for printing a nice excerpt.)
Trump is the one-eyed man among all the blind leaders of the West. He's not always right, but at least he is not a stupendous fool like Merz, Starmer, Macron, Carney, etc.
👍👌🙂 Reminds me of my Dad -- gawd rest his soul -- who once said of me, if I remember correctly, that I would rather be right than President. Better than either-exclusive-or is to be both ... 😉🙂
Well if it wasn't the citizens fault that weather changes then they wouldn't have to use communism as a solution!
At this rate we'll be "running out of time", forever. I think many people are catching on because they cried wolf too many times....because , ultimately, facts are hostile witnesses.
Global "elites" love the "net zero" religion because they can make up new commandments as needed, condemn naysayers as selfish apostates, and rebrand totalitarianism as philanthropic virtue. "Global warming" pseudoscience allows the U.N., the WEF, and other religious denominations to tell everyone else how much to pay in taxes, how much freedom to give up, and how to behave.
German law is based upon civil law. American law is based upon English common Law. In America, civil law shows up in places like driving regulations. English Common Law goes from the bottom up and encourages debate. Civil Law is top down. In very general terms, in Germany if you want to be smiled upon as being a “good citizen,” you follow the rules as they are laid out for you without the disruption which comes from dissent.
Turns out, the German people weren't necessarily especially well disposed toward Nazism. They are just culturally programmed to submit to whoever party or whatever ideology is in power at any given time... In the 30s and 40s, that meant Nazis. Now it means some species of social democrats. Poor Germies...
Yes and in the 20’s there were battles between Nazi’s, National party, and Communists. All marching in the street and vying for power. We know which won out. (Also in UK.)
Germans now get penalized in taxes for adding solar panels to homes and businesses. They get back pennies on the dollar in energy credits for power their panels generate. Meanwhile electricity comes at a high cost when purchased from the grid.
Now in Germany the price of a 2 sqm solar module is 35 €, which is 17,50 € per sqm. Which is cheaper than roofing sheet. So I bought 80 pieces of it, as my barn needs a new roof. LOL.
How much did they tax you for home improvements? Also, I’m guessing you wisely bought your own batteries. Nice to hear you have a barn! I sometimes follow German permaculture farmers when they show up on the YouTube.
Actually, the solar stuff is VAT tax free now here. I use the modules as a replacement for my roofing sheet. Possibly I connect the modules directly to some heating rods in my buffer tank of my central heating for some 100 Eurons. I don't connect to the grid. It's nice to be independent. If you make it the normal way, the price of a complete PV System 12- 15 times the price of the modules.
Likewise. In So Cal we seek independence as much as possible. 100 off grid panels for home with batteries and 300 on grid for the business.
We do not have panels yet at the remote property but I’d like to. Electricity service is the only modern convenience available in the area. It is stupid cheap but I prefer to be safe rather than sorry if there is a power outage and would like panels. The generator is fine but fossil fuel from the tank can run out.
The taxation of solar systems is a bit complicated. If you feed in elecricity into the grid and sell it, you have to start a business. Then the PV system is an expense of the business, but you have to sell the electricity you use to yourself...
‼️ Beyond the pale. Truly absurd. Unbelievable. Someone should write a screenplay about that with the general theme of, “When bureaucracy overruns its utility.” Or, “When accountants take over the world.”
Here in Utah, I believe most subsidies for solar panels have gone away or are going away, and the sole power company keeps trying to weasel out of crediting grid-tied domestic solar systems.
The discrepancy between the left and right hands of gov don’t go unnoticed. Fluffy promises and pledges made by Sacramento, SLC, or Berlin are not always in alignment with the power company. Follow the money.
You’re correct. I’ve spent 3 years looking for affordable solar solutions and at my current age of 70, I’ll be dead before I even break even on the expense of installation. So not an option in Summit county Utah.
It's the Peter Principle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle. But after finishing her term as president of the GA, the post of the German Bundespräsident needs someone new. Most likely a woman. The Lord spares us nothing...
In my view civilization's only true purpose is to provide running hot and cold water on demand in glorious full-pressure streams to every household and to remove bodily waste expeditiously and sanitarily so we ain't gonna find typhoid or cholera hiding under the bed in chamber pots, and that everyone should be cozy and warm indoors in the winter and not fainting from heatstroke on their sofas in the summer, and that these basic services should be affordable to even the humblest home.
Anything else is a bonus for which I'm also grateful of course but I feel I have my priorities straight.
Last week, watching Trump's speech with considerable enjoyment, I was only sorry that, say, you and Simulation Commander weren't co-hosting a live commentary threads event as he did on November 5 because that would've made my year.
Somewhat apropos of which, and since I think you follow "Martyr Made/Maid?" 😉🙂, you might be "amused" by David Cole's latest shot at some of the "unhinged" people in the Republican camp, Candace Owen in particular:
DC: Der Stürmer, May 1934. Also Candace Owens’ laptop wallpaper.
Though I kinda think Cole is a bit clueless that the most probable cause or "reason" for Kirk's assassination was "stochastic terrorism" from the Democrat side, at least from the transloonie tribe under their umbrella. But he probably has a point about Owens and her cohort which apparently wishes to lay the blame for that crime at Israel's and Netanyahu's doorstep.
Indeed. Though I wonder which actor/actress on the stage you might be referring to. Cole? Owens? Me -- maybe being autistic and obsessive-compulsive myself? 😉🙂
But Owens seems the best candidate for that, and my point is that she is more or less under Trump's umbrella. And maybe he needs to do a bit of "house-cleaning". Rather doubt he'll have much luck putting up a casino in Gaza until then, despite some "urban renewal" happening there, as we speak ... 😉🙂
Though I wonder what you want to do about it. May not amount to much, but it may have some relevance to the fate of western civilization -- itself!! -- at least to the deliverance of hot and cold running water ... 😉🙂
Meanwhile Canada, which the supposed Trudeau upgrade Mark Carney likes to think is “the most European non-European country” we are merely heading for the most European non-European Hell. He’s probably already qualified for Magnitsky sanctions by his advice to the Trudeau brain trust about freezing the bank accounts of protesting truckers. Let’s hope he gets it good and hard.
The debanking was the most important story out of Canada the last few years. It's what they want for all of us via the Digital ID cards that can just be turned off.
...this scheme doesn’t solve the fundamental problem faced by the UK government — if an employer is already breaking the rules to hire somebody illegally, why would they suddenly start following the rules surrounding digital ID?
I also worry that not only is the ID a single point of failure (turn off your access to services), it's also a single point of success -- meaning the fraudsters only have to get a Digital ID and they're home free.
When the Trump administration cut off the money spigot of USAID being funneled to every leftist NGO and green scam around the world, the size and scope of all these green causes and subsidies of the Left dried up almost overnight. Most of their attempts at protest now are mere shadows of their former selves, manned by only the dying breed of their most brainwashed devotees.
We are watching it in its death throes.
The elites in power now have only to resort to doubling down on squelching the people’s freedoms, particularly speech, left in their quiver. But even that is now being met by a much more full throated resistance than ever before. You can only go so far arresting your citizens while letting rapists and murders roam free before the center no longer holds.
Thus enter their incentivizing and justifying of actual murder of members of the opposition as an excusable and even honorable deed, their method of last resort in clinging onto whatever semblances of power they appear to retain.
Things will be getting a lot uglier before they ever get better.
Definitely the movement is losing traction, but one has to wonder how much the decline in attendance at the protests is a de-funding of USAID? None of this was ever organic.
It's probably an oversimplification, but the foundation on which all of modern climate panic is based is CO2.
Topple this and the entire thing should fall crumbling to the ground. I say "should" because the true believers are, as in all religions, impervious to actual facts.
In nutritional and medical studies this is known as a "surrogate endpoint".
A useful concept in the service of bamboozling the reader, and which depends on the infallibility of that surrogate endpoint as representing the real result in question. Classic example: cholesterol and heart disease.
All the climatroids need to do is destroy a few more expensive pieces of art, glue themselves to a few more city streets, and they will be right back on top!
Critical year 1989. The European left definitively lost its political and ideological anchoring, their heads were already empty of decent ideas but then even more. So they started to highjack Europe, developing their usual blind faith in a European model that they despised till the day before. Since then immigration, climatism, social justice, quotas bla bla all the communist garbage in a different sauce. Greens are watermelons, the inside is red, all propaganda and fundamentally Marxist with the goal of destroying European societies.
Oh btw remember when you were barely allowed to suggest that the kids going to climate protests on Fridays maybe were more interested in skipping school than saving the climate? Lol.
In USA this message has been pushed for decades. We largely obeyed. Then in the 2000’s, our dear leaders declared there was a population crisis since the west had stopped having babies, that we needed to start importing the impoverished of the world to boost the numbers. Clever trick.
Tardigrade, you have been around here a long time. I haven’t looked. (You may have your own substack….) Now at last I see that you were commenting upon your own post as possibly containing a typo. I’m checking to make sure you know there is an edit function. You can go back to adjust your posts as much as you like and no longer need to point it out separately.
I’m sorry! That was the source of my confusion. I thought you were talking to me as we all have the ability to go back and self-correct. You should have 3 dots near a corner of your posts for that.
I read your post and it reminded me of my own related thoughts which are in line with those of Daniele V from the post above yours in the thread.
I was not responding exactly to the message of your post per se though I did not disagree either.
From my observations climate alarmism in particular has been pushed to accomplish 3 primary tasks:
1. To scare populations into compliance towards a selected direction used by governments to restrict freedoms and enhance control mechanisms. (Much like the Covid response, now the “Russia threat.”)
2. To encourage the diminishment of that pesky western civilization which is inherently resistant to the new feudal system.
3. To then usher in incompatible
belief systems to keep us busy and confused with questions such as “equity” and “rights.”
What is unclear? In the 1970’s we were told that because “women’s lib” and “the earth” we needed to stop having babies. A few decades later the same progressive political class told us we lack sufficient population and must invite the travelers.
Sometimes I resort to abbreviated typing when I’m in a hurry, though I assume we are all conditioned to this manner of speaking by now. KWIM? GLTA! 🤣🤣🤣
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the effects of ignoring reality.
I need this on a T-shirt.
You're in luck!
https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/You-Can-Ignore-Reality-But-You-Can-t-Ignore-The-Consequences-Of-Ignoring-Reality-by-RRiDesigns/97018448.IJ6L0
(Turns out I screwed it up slightly)
I think I prefer your version :)
Me too!
The end of this is quite predictable and.already in progress. let's hope we.avoid another world war.
When the same anti-energy green leadership has shifted to calling for building out new power plants, nuclear power and even the yucky carbo type to power AI Data Centers it kinda makes the entire green de-industrialization concept disintegrate into the nothingness it came from.
When we're being told we must change our thermostats, shiver in cold in sweaters inside our homes or suffer in heat with open windows, drive toy cars for 15-minutes and all of the tokens of repentance, sacrifice while massive computers (intended to be our 'invisible' prison guards) get new energy sources built, new water sources diverted, etc, it becomes a difficult pill to swallow for even the most committed greenie.
Unfortunately, many proponents of "green" policies actually do get to ignore the effects of ignoring reality because they don't usually bear the brunt of the costs. This is precisely why so many of the people who claim they care about the climate travel in private jets.
No matter whether you like or dislike the man, he was right.
The best thing about Trump's speech to the UN is that it was made off-the-cuff, after his teleprompter mysteriously failed. If the failure was due to mischief by UN staff, then they must have quickly regretted it. Trump unleashed one of his greatest speeches ever, aimed directly at the asshole globalists who run the UN. (Shout out to eugyppius for printing a nice excerpt.)
Teleprompter, escalator, and speakers. If world leaders wished to hear him they had to use the earphones with annoying translator voice.
I read that, too. Truly a shame. Hopefully a few of them read transcripts afterward.
I read similar comments on several other Substacks and news outlets. Will teach them to make fun of him and try to boycott him!
Trump is the one-eyed man among all the blind leaders of the West. He's not always right, but at least he is not a stupendous fool like Merz, Starmer, Macron, Carney, etc.
This shits easy. All he's doing is replacing nonsense with common sense.
Yes, but somehow Trump is the only major Western leader capable of it.
And a year ago, there were none.
And they hate him for it, too!
Alas, common sense has been drummed out of the leadership class.
They have traditionally been wicked first and foremost..
Yes, and then there's that!
👍👌🙂 Reminds me of my Dad -- gawd rest his soul -- who once said of me, if I remember correctly, that I would rather be right than President. Better than either-exclusive-or is to be both ... 😉🙂
And thanks for the memory. 🙂
Well if it wasn't the citizens fault that weather changes then they wouldn't have to use communism as a solution!
At this rate we'll be "running out of time", forever. I think many people are catching on because they cried wolf too many times....because , ultimately, facts are hostile witnesses.
Global "elites" love the "net zero" religion because they can make up new commandments as needed, condemn naysayers as selfish apostates, and rebrand totalitarianism as philanthropic virtue. "Global warming" pseudoscience allows the U.N., the WEF, and other religious denominations to tell everyone else how much to pay in taxes, how much freedom to give up, and how to behave.
“Facts are hostile witnesses”. THAT should be on a T-shirt!
The wonder of government-granted rights........
German law is based upon civil law. American law is based upon English common Law. In America, civil law shows up in places like driving regulations. English Common Law goes from the bottom up and encourages debate. Civil Law is top down. In very general terms, in Germany if you want to be smiled upon as being a “good citizen,” you follow the rules as they are laid out for you without the disruption which comes from dissent.
I..e., one must "be a good German?"
Turns out, the German people weren't necessarily especially well disposed toward Nazism. They are just culturally programmed to submit to whoever party or whatever ideology is in power at any given time... In the 30s and 40s, that meant Nazis. Now it means some species of social democrats. Poor Germies...
Yes and in the 20’s there were battles between Nazi’s, National party, and Communists. All marching in the street and vying for power. We know which won out. (Also in UK.)
Just like you wrote about in your last stack
Like I always say, I don't actually WANT be proven right.....
Germans now get penalized in taxes for adding solar panels to homes and businesses. They get back pennies on the dollar in energy credits for power their panels generate. Meanwhile electricity comes at a high cost when purchased from the grid.
Now in Germany the price of a 2 sqm solar module is 35 €, which is 17,50 € per sqm. Which is cheaper than roofing sheet. So I bought 80 pieces of it, as my barn needs a new roof. LOL.
How much did they tax you for home improvements? Also, I’m guessing you wisely bought your own batteries. Nice to hear you have a barn! I sometimes follow German permaculture farmers when they show up on the YouTube.
Actually, the solar stuff is VAT tax free now here. I use the modules as a replacement for my roofing sheet. Possibly I connect the modules directly to some heating rods in my buffer tank of my central heating for some 100 Eurons. I don't connect to the grid. It's nice to be independent. If you make it the normal way, the price of a complete PV System 12- 15 times the price of the modules.
Likewise. In So Cal we seek independence as much as possible. 100 off grid panels for home with batteries and 300 on grid for the business.
We do not have panels yet at the remote property but I’d like to. Electricity service is the only modern convenience available in the area. It is stupid cheap but I prefer to be safe rather than sorry if there is a power outage and would like panels. The generator is fine but fossil fuel from the tank can run out.
The taxation of solar systems is a bit complicated. If you feed in elecricity into the grid and sell it, you have to start a business. Then the PV system is an expense of the business, but you have to sell the electricity you use to yourself...
‼️ Beyond the pale. Truly absurd. Unbelievable. Someone should write a screenplay about that with the general theme of, “When bureaucracy overruns its utility.” Or, “When accountants take over the world.”
Here in Utah, I believe most subsidies for solar panels have gone away or are going away, and the sole power company keeps trying to weasel out of crediting grid-tied domestic solar systems.
The discrepancy between the left and right hands of gov don’t go unnoticed. Fluffy promises and pledges made by Sacramento, SLC, or Berlin are not always in alignment with the power company. Follow the money.
Or…. Bait and switch, if you prefer.
You’re correct. I’ve spent 3 years looking for affordable solar solutions and at my current age of 70, I’ll be dead before I even break even on the expense of installation. So not an option in Summit county Utah.
Unreal
Wait what? Bareback is the president of the General Assembly??
yes, it's been an amusing side story
I'm trying to remember…is she one of the Marshmallowians?
One of the world salads like Kamala, Ursula, and Kallas.
all ears - anon - excellent post again - onwards>>>>
It’s new. Baerbock failing upwards like many others.
It's the Peter Principle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle. But after finishing her term as president of the GA, the post of the German Bundespräsident needs someone new. Most likely a woman. The Lord spares us nothing...
Peter Principle, not to be confused with the Pareto Principle. Hahaha
Actually, the shuffling which goes on often smells like a cushy paycheck for a globalist job well done. Kaja Kallas is the new bobble head.
Sadly yes.
In my view civilization's only true purpose is to provide running hot and cold water on demand in glorious full-pressure streams to every household and to remove bodily waste expeditiously and sanitarily so we ain't gonna find typhoid or cholera hiding under the bed in chamber pots, and that everyone should be cozy and warm indoors in the winter and not fainting from heatstroke on their sofas in the summer, and that these basic services should be affordable to even the humblest home.
Anything else is a bonus for which I'm also grateful of course but I feel I have my priorities straight.
Last week, watching Trump's speech with considerable enjoyment, I was only sorry that, say, you and Simulation Commander weren't co-hosting a live commentary threads event as he did on November 5 because that would've made my year.
Exalted for truth.
When the stuff you mention were solved, is when the West went off the rails, first in increments and then finally all at once.
The "all at once" came when they decided to beat us over the head with "ugly is beautiful."
Yah. Or when everything became racist.
I asked a friend once, in the early 2010s, if she realised dating was racist and homophobic.
We shared a laugh at the thought.
It's funny how they never collect war stories from white girls brought home to meet the black guy's family
👍👌😉🙂
Somewhat apropos of which, and since I think you follow "Martyr Made/Maid?" 😉🙂, you might be "amused" by David Cole's latest shot at some of the "unhinged" people in the Republican camp, Candace Owen in particular:
DC: Der Stürmer, May 1934. Also Candace Owens’ laptop wallpaper.
https://bestservedcole.substack.com/p/charlie-candace-tucker-megyn-and?utm_medium=reader2&triedRedirect=true
Though I kinda think Cole is a bit clueless that the most probable cause or "reason" for Kirk's assassination was "stochastic terrorism" from the Democrat side, at least from the transloonie tribe under their umbrella. But he probably has a point about Owens and her cohort which apparently wishes to lay the blame for that crime at Israel's and Netanyahu's doorstep.
I think tiresome crazy people come in every flavor.
Indeed. Though I wonder which actor/actress on the stage you might be referring to. Cole? Owens? Me -- maybe being autistic and obsessive-compulsive myself? 😉🙂
But Owens seems the best candidate for that, and my point is that she is more or less under Trump's umbrella. And maybe he needs to do a bit of "house-cleaning". Rather doubt he'll have much luck putting up a casino in Gaza until then, despite some "urban renewal" happening there, as we speak ... 😉🙂
I did understand your point, Sparky.
💋 Sparkily yours... 🙂
Though I wonder what you want to do about it. May not amount to much, but it may have some relevance to the fate of western civilization -- itself!! -- at least to the deliverance of hot and cold running water ... 😉🙂
Meanwhile Canada, which the supposed Trudeau upgrade Mark Carney likes to think is “the most European non-European country” we are merely heading for the most European non-European Hell. He’s probably already qualified for Magnitsky sanctions by his advice to the Trudeau brain trust about freezing the bank accounts of protesting truckers. Let’s hope he gets it good and hard.
The debanking was the most important story out of Canada the last few years. It's what they want for all of us via the Digital ID cards that can just be turned off.
Coming to the UK and Germany. (Also the rest of Europe and Australia.)
Yep. Literally just wrote about this yesterday.
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/if-your-rights-come-from-government
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...this scheme doesn’t solve the fundamental problem faced by the UK government — if an employer is already breaking the rules to hire somebody illegally, why would they suddenly start following the rules surrounding digital ID?
“It will be mandatory.”
As usual it will be the law abiding populations wishing to be proper citizens who obey the mandate.
I also worry that not only is the ID a single point of failure (turn off your access to services), it's also a single point of success -- meaning the fraudsters only have to get a Digital ID and they're home free.
When the Trump administration cut off the money spigot of USAID being funneled to every leftist NGO and green scam around the world, the size and scope of all these green causes and subsidies of the Left dried up almost overnight. Most of their attempts at protest now are mere shadows of their former selves, manned by only the dying breed of their most brainwashed devotees.
We are watching it in its death throes.
The elites in power now have only to resort to doubling down on squelching the people’s freedoms, particularly speech, left in their quiver. But even that is now being met by a much more full throated resistance than ever before. You can only go so far arresting your citizens while letting rapists and murders roam free before the center no longer holds.
Thus enter their incentivizing and justifying of actual murder of members of the opposition as an excusable and even honorable deed, their method of last resort in clinging onto whatever semblances of power they appear to retain.
Things will be getting a lot uglier before they ever get better.
May want to drive a stake through climatism’s heart so it won’t rise up from the grave.
Definitely the movement is losing traction, but one has to wonder how much the decline in attendance at the protests is a de-funding of USAID? None of this was ever organic.
It's probably an oversimplification, but the foundation on which all of modern climate panic is based is CO2.
Topple this and the entire thing should fall crumbling to the ground. I say "should" because the true believers are, as in all religions, impervious to actual facts.
A perfect example of a metric becoming a target and thus losing all its value as a metric.
In nutritional and medical studies this is known as a "surrogate endpoint".
A useful concept in the service of bamboozling the reader, and which depends on the infallibility of that surrogate endpoint as representing the real result in question. Classic example: cholesterol and heart disease.
You are such a pessimist, Eugyppius.
All the climatroids need to do is destroy a few more expensive pieces of art, glue themselves to a few more city streets, and they will be right back on top!
LOL
Did German and other EU-ropean media completely ignore the remarks on migration, and hyper-focused on the climate-stuff?
I'm betting they did, and I'm also willing to bet that most people didn't even notice.
Spot on analysis. How much longer will your country go down this road? Years?
Critical year 1989. The European left definitively lost its political and ideological anchoring, their heads were already empty of decent ideas but then even more. So they started to highjack Europe, developing their usual blind faith in a European model that they despised till the day before. Since then immigration, climatism, social justice, quotas bla bla all the communist garbage in a different sauce. Greens are watermelons, the inside is red, all propaganda and fundamentally Marxist with the goal of destroying European societies.
Oh btw remember when you were barely allowed to suggest that the kids going to climate protests on Fridays maybe were more interested in skipping school than saving the climate? Lol.
The kids themselves, by the way, were often vocally cynical about this. This is my experience teaching 8th grade in rural Bavaria in 2022-2023.
Typo alert.
'This would be our climatoids have pasted their logo onto the trans flag and why they have to march alongside activists...'
Probably that should say 'This would be *why* our climate…'
Sorry! It's an involuntary reflex!
In USA this message has been pushed for decades. We largely obeyed. Then in the 2000’s, our dear leaders declared there was a population crisis since the west had stopped having babies, that we needed to start importing the impoverished of the world to boost the numbers. Clever trick.
??
I was just pointing out a probable typo.
Tardigrade, you have been around here a long time. I haven’t looked. (You may have your own substack….) Now at last I see that you were commenting upon your own post as possibly containing a typo. I’m checking to make sure you know there is an edit function. You can go back to adjust your posts as much as you like and no longer need to point it out separately.
I’m sorry! That was the source of my confusion. I thought you were talking to me as we all have the ability to go back and self-correct. You should have 3 dots near a corner of your posts for that.
Tardigrade,
I read your post and it reminded me of my own related thoughts which are in line with those of Daniele V from the post above yours in the thread.
I was not responding exactly to the message of your post per se though I did not disagree either.
From my observations climate alarmism in particular has been pushed to accomplish 3 primary tasks:
1. To scare populations into compliance towards a selected direction used by governments to restrict freedoms and enhance control mechanisms. (Much like the Covid response, now the “Russia threat.”)
2. To encourage the diminishment of that pesky western civilization which is inherently resistant to the new feudal system.
3. To then usher in incompatible
belief systems to keep us busy and confused with questions such as “equity” and “rights.”
Tardigrade, are you commenting upon the lack of a 3 letter definite article?
No.
The sentence I highlighted in my original post is missing the word "why".
What is unclear? In the 1970’s we were told that because “women’s lib” and “the earth” we needed to stop having babies. A few decades later the same progressive political class told us we lack sufficient population and must invite the travelers.
I'm not talking about the content of the sentence at all.
I'm as confused as you are, Tardigrade. It's like you're talking into one telephone and Chixbythesea is listening on a completely different line.
Thank you! Usually, I'm pretty much on board with Chix, but I can't help wondering if today the cat is walking on the keyboard there.
Here’s a present for you. (But please don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.)
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=online+slang
More reliable than Wikipedia.
This whole exchange has been a bemusing series of non sequiturs.
Sometimes I resort to abbreviated typing when I’m in a hurry, though I assume we are all conditioned to this manner of speaking by now. KWIM? GLTA! 🤣🤣🤣
I'm at a loss as to what on earth that has to do with a missing word in a sentence.