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The first is the revolting spectacle of the hypocrisy of the exalted elites who preach to the deplorables the proper etiquette of abstinence to deal with the emergency, and their own insouciant exemption from a restrictive lifestyle.
A second common element between Covid and climate change is the mismatch between models that inform policy and data that contradict the models.
Third, the rapidly consolidating Censorship Industrial Complex covered both agendas until Elon Musk began releasing the Twitter Files to expose what was happening. This refers to the extraordinary censorship and suppression of dissenting voices, with extensive and possibly illegal collusion between governments and Big Tech—and, in the case of the pandemic, also Big Pharma and academia.
Fourth, an important explanation for the spread of Covid and climate catastrophism is the promotion of fear and panic in the population as a means to spur drastic political action.
A fifth common theme is the appeal to scientific authority. For this to work, scientific consensus is crucial.
A sixth shared element is the enormous expansion of powers for the nanny state that bosses citizens and businesses because governments know best and can pick winners and losers.
Seventh, the moral framing has also been used to discount massive economic self-harm.
Eighth, government policies in both agendas have served to greatly widen economic inequalities within and among nations with fat profits for Big Pharma and rent-seeking Green Energy.
The final common element is the subordination of state-based decision-making to international technocrats.
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In the triumph of luxury politics, the costs of the rich suffused in the golden glow of virtue are borne by the poor. Should a billion more Chinese and Indians have stayed poor and destitute over the last four decades, so Westerners could feel virtuous-green? Alternatively, for post-industrial societies, climate action will require cutbacks to living standards as subsidies rise, power prices go up, reliability comes down and jobs are lost.
Attempts to assess the balance of costs and benefits of Covid and climate policies are shouted down as immoral and evil, putting profits before lives. But neither health nor climate policy can dictate economic, development, energy and other policies. All governments work to balance multiple competing policy priorities. What is the sweet spot that ensures reliable, affordable and clean energy security without big job losses? Or the sweet spot of affordable, accessible and efficient public health delivery that does not compromise the nation’s ability to educate its young, look after the elderly and vulnerable and ensure decent jobs and life opportunities for families?
The final common element is the subordination of state-based decision-making to international technocrats. This is best exemplified in the proliferation of the global climate change bureaucracies and the promise—threat?—of a new global pandemic treaty whose custodian will be a mighty World Health Organisation. In both cases, the dedicated international bureaucracy will have a powerful vested interest in ongoing climate crises and serially repeating pandemics.
The long track record of abysmally wrong catastrophist predictions on infectious diseases from the Pied Piper of Pandemic Porn, Professor Neil Ferguson, is if anything exceeded by the failures of climate change alarmist predictions. The most recent example of the drum roll of “The end is nigh and this is absolutely your last chance to avert the end of the world from climate collapse” is yet another Chicken Little Sixth Assessment Report from the indefatigable Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
At some point the IPCC morphed from a team of scientists into activists. “There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all,” the report warns us. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called it a “survival guide for humanity.” But a one-time climate action journalist-turned-sceptic, Michael Shellenberger, described the UN as a “Climate Disinformation Threat Actor.”
Over time, disinformation can affect memory and influence actions of those who become emotionally connected or “brainwashed,” even after that incorrect information is retracted. The role of social media should not be underrated, especially among millennials and today’s youth, as disinformation coming from the US government through those portals has been nothing short of a disinformation tsunami.
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The first is the revolting spectacle of the hypocrisy of the exalted elites who preach to the deplorables the proper etiquette of abstinence to deal with the emergency, and their own insouciant exemption from a restrictive lifestyle.
A second common element between Covid and climate change is the mismatch between models that inform policy and data that contradict the models.
Third, the rapidly consolidating Censorship Industrial Complex covered both agendas until Elon Musk began releasing the Twitter Files to expose what was happening. This refers to the extraordinary censorship and suppression of dissenting voices, with extensive and possibly illegal collusion between governments and Big Tech—and, in the case of the pandemic, also Big Pharma and academia.
Fourth, an important explanation for the spread of Covid and climate catastrophism is the promotion of fear and panic in the population as a means to spur drastic political action.
A fifth common theme is the appeal to scientific authority. For this to work, scientific consensus is crucial.
originally posted by: chiefsmom
If they would have just came out with "We need to clean up pollution and waste", I could have gotten behind it.
But instead of cleaning up the mess we made, we now go full retard on solar, wind turbines and batteries.
Checking 20 years worth of projections shows that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has consistently underestimated the pace and impacts of global warming
Climate models used by the UN's IPCC and others to project climate change are not accurately reflecting what the Arctic's future will be, experts say.
originally posted by: Insurrectile
a reply to: Maxmars
How about some hard data tho?
originally posted by: TonyS
a reply to: MichiganSwampBuck
Draft animals aside, if you step baack and look at this situation you realize that what the WEF and Climate Change religion is really all about is putting into place a Zero growth economy. A zero growth economy only works in a country/region/society that has a negative fertility rate such that it's reproducing people at a rate below the replacement rate.
It's obvious that "they" don't want to pursue solutions that would provide abundance. A guy on C2C pointed out that Nuclear reactors could easily solve our energy problems, but they've put in a place a regulatory scheme that prohibits construction of new plants. Even though Nuclear power is not damaging to the environment, folks like the Sierra Club hate Nuclear power and his conclusion was that they hate Nuclear because..........it works. They want to end abundance and want to achieve some position of economic stasis.
Viewed from 30,000 feet, assuming that ET Aliens exist and are flying about from one solar system to another, they would look down on this planet and say to themselves.........as to technological/social progress, this planet is going BACKWARDS.
originally posted by: network dude
I had to submit to the idea we were all doomed. the tipping point/point of no return had been reached several times, so the only conclusion to be reached is, we are all going to die. eventually. I have started to prepare for the end. I hope all others have as well. Make no mistake, death is coming. You cannot escape it. Nobody gets out of here alive. Nobody.