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We Haven't Reached Peak Climate Alarmism
But we're getting there. ...
There’s a trend being driven by these “Eco-warriors” that bears mentioning. It’s a sort of casual narcissism whereby they desecrate famous works of art, deface businesses, block highways, and do other things that only those suffering from the punishing handicaps posed by stupidity would do in protest of what they believe is the degradation of planet earth. See for example the two brave, courageous souls from Just Stop Oil who entered room 43 of the National Gallery in London last year, opened two tins of Heinz cream of tomato soup, and threw the contents at Vincent van Gogh’s $84.2 million Sunflowers, thereupon gluing their hands to the wall, which is apparently standard operating procedure.
“What is worth more, art or life?” asked one of the two specimens. “Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting, or the protection of our planet and people?”
While limited in scope, the actions of these climate activists are enough to test even the most committed civil libertarian in his opposition to casual waterboarding. A special breed of morons who tend to be chock-full of the deluded pride that attends ignorance, they particularly excel at narcissistic exhibitionism—a phenomenon that first manifested in politics during the anti-nuclear movement of the 1970s, when younger liberals convinced themselves that street protests and other forms of everyone-come-look-at-me public advocacy could rid the world of nuclear weapons. When the Cold War ended and the threat of nuclear armageddon subsided, apocalyptic fear mongers took up climate change as their new cause.
Since then, apostles of the climate apocalypse have generally been cut from the same cloth as progressive globalists. It’s not a coincidence that they offer a single prescription for salvation that coincides exactly with the economic programs of the Left—more taxes, more interventionism, less capitalism, and less freedom.1 Thus, in the “Strengthening the response” section of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, you will not be surprised to see that scientists call for “economic instruments which consider economic and social equity and distributional impacts; gender-responsive and women-empowerment programs as well as enhanced access to finance for local communities and Indigenous Peoples and small landowners.”
Extinction Rebellion co-founder Stuart Basden has said that his movement “isn’t about the climate,” but is instead concerned with overturning white supremacy, the patriarchy, heteronormativity, and class hierarchy.
James Lindsay