What the heck is it with the Chicken Little "the sky is falling" brigade?
How many years of no global warming will it take for them to wander off into well deserved obscurity??
More and more folks realize it's about Global Governance, not Global Warming....politics not science!
Now, from Stanley Kurtz....an explanation of the popularity in the 'hair on fire' brigade: seems it's all about playing make-believe victim.
1. "... French intellectual gadfly Pascal Bruckner (in The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse: Save the Earth, Punish Human Beings), does the most thorough job yet of explaining the climate movement as a secular religion, an odd combination of deformed Christianity and reconstructed Marxism.
2. Bruckner describes a historical process wherein “the long list of emblematic victims — Jews, blacks, slaves, proletarians, colonized peoples — was replaced, little by little, with the Planet.” The planet, says Bruckner, “has become the new proletariat that must be saved from exploitation.”
3. ... odd that a “mood of catastrophe” should prevail in the West, the most well-off part of the world. .... is that the only way to turn the prosperous into victims is to threaten the very existence of a world they otherwise command.
4. ... why should the privileged wish to become victims? To alleviate guilt and to appropriate the victim’s superior prestige. In the neo-Marxist dispensation now regnant on our college campuses, after all, the advantaged are ignorant and guilty while the oppressed are innocent and wise.
5. .... the privileged to identify with “struggling groups” by wearing, say, a Palestinian keffiyeh. Yet better than merely empathizing with the oppressed is tobe oppressed. This is the climate movement’s signal innovation.
6. .... begin with Bill McKibben, the most influential environmental activist in the country, and leader of the campus fossil-fuel divestment movement..... “My leftism grew more righteous in college,” he says, “but still there was something pro forma about it.” The problem? “Being white, male, straight, and of impeccably middle-class background, I could not realistically claim to be a victim of anything.”
7. ...McKibben continued to enthusiastically support every leftist-approved victim group he could find. Nonetheless, something was missing. None of these causes seemed truly his own. When McKibben almost singlehandedly turned global warming into a public issue in 1989, his problem was solved. Now everyone could be a victim.
8. ... despite vast differences between the upper-middle-class college students who make up much of today’s climate movement and southern blacks living under segregation in the 1950s, climate activists think of themselves on the model of the early civil-rights protesters.
9. When climate activists court arrest through civil disobedience, they imagine themselves to be reliving the struggles of persecuted African Americans staging lunch-counter sit-ins at risk of their lives.
10. Today’s climate protesters,...“feel themselves oppressed by powerful, corrupt forces beyond their control.” And they fight “not only for people in faraway places but, increasingly, for themselves.”
The Wannabe Oppressed National Review Online
So...some psychotherapy, a little prozac, and, perhaps a polo mallet, and the "Global Warming Movement" is history.
Remember when they simply dressed up as cowboys and Indians?
How many years of no global warming will it take for them to wander off into well deserved obscurity??
More and more folks realize it's about Global Governance, not Global Warming....politics not science!
Now, from Stanley Kurtz....an explanation of the popularity in the 'hair on fire' brigade: seems it's all about playing make-believe victim.
1. "... French intellectual gadfly Pascal Bruckner (in The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse: Save the Earth, Punish Human Beings), does the most thorough job yet of explaining the climate movement as a secular religion, an odd combination of deformed Christianity and reconstructed Marxism.
2. Bruckner describes a historical process wherein “the long list of emblematic victims — Jews, blacks, slaves, proletarians, colonized peoples — was replaced, little by little, with the Planet.” The planet, says Bruckner, “has become the new proletariat that must be saved from exploitation.”
3. ... odd that a “mood of catastrophe” should prevail in the West, the most well-off part of the world. .... is that the only way to turn the prosperous into victims is to threaten the very existence of a world they otherwise command.
4. ... why should the privileged wish to become victims? To alleviate guilt and to appropriate the victim’s superior prestige. In the neo-Marxist dispensation now regnant on our college campuses, after all, the advantaged are ignorant and guilty while the oppressed are innocent and wise.
5. .... the privileged to identify with “struggling groups” by wearing, say, a Palestinian keffiyeh. Yet better than merely empathizing with the oppressed is tobe oppressed. This is the climate movement’s signal innovation.
6. .... begin with Bill McKibben, the most influential environmental activist in the country, and leader of the campus fossil-fuel divestment movement..... “My leftism grew more righteous in college,” he says, “but still there was something pro forma about it.” The problem? “Being white, male, straight, and of impeccably middle-class background, I could not realistically claim to be a victim of anything.”
7. ...McKibben continued to enthusiastically support every leftist-approved victim group he could find. Nonetheless, something was missing. None of these causes seemed truly his own. When McKibben almost singlehandedly turned global warming into a public issue in 1989, his problem was solved. Now everyone could be a victim.
8. ... despite vast differences between the upper-middle-class college students who make up much of today’s climate movement and southern blacks living under segregation in the 1950s, climate activists think of themselves on the model of the early civil-rights protesters.
9. When climate activists court arrest through civil disobedience, they imagine themselves to be reliving the struggles of persecuted African Americans staging lunch-counter sit-ins at risk of their lives.
10. Today’s climate protesters,...“feel themselves oppressed by powerful, corrupt forces beyond their control.” And they fight “not only for people in faraway places but, increasingly, for themselves.”
The Wannabe Oppressed National Review Online
So...some psychotherapy, a little prozac, and, perhaps a polo mallet, and the "Global Warming Movement" is history.
Remember when they simply dressed up as cowboys and Indians?
