The agenda of the climate charlatans
There’s nothing like a climate summit to bring out all the Marxists, mugwumps, and misanthropes.
They want us to pursue “degrowth.” They tell anyone who will listen that “capitalism is killing the planet.” They call for “limitarianism,” their latest buzzword. We should, in other words, limit everything: our travel, our diet, our recreation, our procreation.
Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of level-headed people in Glasgow doing useful and important work. But the most hardcore eco-activists always seem less motivated by the details of climate policy than by a general dislike of the human race. Some of them openly talk of our species as a virus that has contaminated Mother Earth and commit themselves to celibacy. Most want human beings to survive, but to be colder, sparser, and poorer. Theirs is a world in which, to quote an old missionary hymn, “every prospect pleases and only man is vile.”
Nothing new there, you might think. Except that, this time, we have had a taste of their medicine. Last year saw the limitarian ideal realized: falling GDP, grounded airplanes, less trade, a downturn in birthrates. Sure enough, the eco-doomsters reveled in it. Indeed, some leftists loved the lockdowns so much that they want to revive them. Mariana Mazzucato of University College London, the current pinup for opponents of the market economy, has speculated about future “climate lockdowns” so as to “tackle a climate emergency.”
Let’s leave aside the obvious objections to lockdowns — the ruinous damage to lives and livelihoods, the business closures, the debts, the harm to mental health. Let’s instead ask whether they work as an environmental measure. Did making everyone poorer and less free at least slow global warming?
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Global warming or climate change is one of the more overrated phenomenons in history. If you believe proponents like Al Gore the poles were supposed to be ice-free nearly a decade ago instead of having record cold temperatures this year. Coastal cities were supposed to be underwater as the Greenland ide sheet melted, but it still has not melted.
Degrowth is just the latest term being pushed by the proponents. It is as goofy as the Al Gore forecasts.
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