This Is How Crazy The Climate Alarmists Are Getting

Authored by Tom Rogan via The Washington Examiner,

George Monbiot and the climate change heart of darkness

George Monbiot appeared recently on Frankie Boyle’s far-left political chat show, “New World Order.” A columnist and environmental activist, Monbiot explained how we have to save the planet. And boy, does Monbiot have some ideas.

The easy things we need to change, Monbiot said, are to end air travel flying and cease consumption of meat. If that doesn’t sound easy to you, then you’re not alone. Indeed, those ideas are so destructive of modern life, economics, and the pursuit of happiness, that they could justifiably be regarded as insane.

But Monbiot was just getting started. Next up, he took us down the intellectual river, into the heart of activist darkness.

“We have to overthrow this system which is eating the planet: perpetual growth,” Monbiot declared. And the writer pulled no punches. Annual economic growth targets of 3% represent “madness,” he said. The columnist reached his crescendo.

“We can’t do it by just pitting around at the margins of the problem; we’ve got to go straight to the heart of capitalism and overthrow it.

The morons in Boyle’s audience lapped this up.

In a way, I’m glad Monbiot said what he did. With this interview, Boyle, a terrorist sympathizer and champagne socialist, unwittingly gave us a rare window into the malicious faux-humanitarianism that motivates many climate change ideologues. I don’t exaggerate when I say it’s malicious.

The free market system has, since the 1980s, lifted billions of people out of poverty worldwide, exceeding all of the achievements of all the nonprofits in history. Monbiot and his comrades, in seeking to overthrow the modern way of life, are proud servants of moral darkness. They seek to impose socialismcommunism, or some other defective ideology precisely because these will limit economic growth and human flourishing.

History proves that capitalism uniquely serves a growing and broadly shared prosperity, new innovations for health, technology, and science, and sustaining democratic government.

And yes, that makes economic growth moral.

There may also be a moral imperative to adopt reasonable climate change policies — it’s something I’m quite willing to accept. But we must call out the intellectual and moral deceptions offered by people like Monbiot. Failing to do so, we entertain the growing chance of a poorer, less happy, and morally darker world.

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18 Comments
Donkey Balls
Donkey Balls
April 22, 2019 7:52 am

Q: where do I find this free market you speak of?

oldtimer505
oldtimer505
  Donkey Balls
April 24, 2019 12:52 pm

Fantasy Land according to Dangerfield.

Crimson Avenger
Crimson Avenger
April 22, 2019 7:58 am

This moonbat has got a whole lot wrong, but he does have one thing right: Perpetual growth is a bad idea. In money terms it’s a system designed for bankers, and in human terms there’s going to be a real reckoning as we deal with resource depletion.

The only time I’ll take an eco-freak seriously is if they talk about population problems. If they’re not willing to tackle that, then that it’s all a cover for more government control.

SmallerGovNow
SmallerGovNow
  Crimson Avenger
April 22, 2019 10:08 am

Yes, and prevention of real pollution, NOT CO2 which is plant food.
6CO2 + 6H2O + SUNLIGHT —> C6H12O6 + 6O2
Photosynthesis, it sustains everything on the planet… Chip

Iska Waran
Iska Waran
  Crimson Avenger
April 22, 2019 10:53 am

The only population problem is that the wrong populations are growing.

Robert (QSLV)
Robert (QSLV)
  Crimson Avenger
April 22, 2019 11:22 am

Growth because of an increase in the debt or printing phony money is a terrible thing. Value-added growth from technological innovations and hard work is the heart of a true capitalist system. The first one is a cancer, and the second the natural evolution of a healthy system.

Robert (QSLV)

ottomatik
ottomatik
  Crimson Avenger
April 22, 2019 10:32 pm

Crimson- both of your points, growth and pollution are absolutely spot on, well done.

Diogenes
Diogenes
April 22, 2019 9:03 am

Neo-Feudelism is the new world order wet dream. Come on, you will love being a serf, eating fucking vegtables and soy while your kings and queens eat steak.

anarchyst
anarchyst
April 22, 2019 9:12 am

If environmentalism restricted itself to truly caring for our natural resources, I would have no problem with it. However, with the secret science and questionable funding that these environmental groups possess taints the whole barrel. It turns out that many claims that environmentalists make have no basis in fact and are not based on good, honest, scientific investigation. This is why environmental scientists have to hide their data, as it does not fit their agenda. A good example of this is the so-called global warming crap, now renamed climate change. For one, the climate is always changing. The East Anglia emails in which data was purposely falsified by climate scientists comes to mind. Not only that, the climate scientists purposely installed temperature monitoring sensors in cities, contrary to manufacturers recommendations and good scientific practices, in asphalt-covered parking lots, and other heat sink areas in order to prove their (faulty) hypothesis. This is scientific dishonesty at its worst.
It turns out that the solar system is in a cooling cycle due to decreased solar activity. There are two long-term solar cycles that reinforce themselves when in phase and cancel themselves out when out-of-phase. Look up the Maunder minimum. There are no SUVs on Mars or other planets, yet they are also experiencing the same solar variability.
Environmentalism has been the method used to impose communist principles on western society, especially in the USA.
Environmentalists are not content with promoting clean water, air and land, but are hell-bent on controlling human behavior, and yes, promoting extermination plans for much of humanity as these anointed types consider mankind to be a pestilence (except for themselves) to be reduced in population by any means necessary.
Environmentalists HATE the God-given concept of private property and have imposed government-backed and enforced land use controls on private property owners without compensation, clearly an unconstitutional taking of private property. If environmentalists want to control land use, let them purchase it themselves, not by government force. Today the only method of negating government-imposed land use restrictions is shoot, shovel, and shut up.
If environmentalists had their way, the earth’s human population would be reduced by approximately 90%, with the remainder to (be forced) to live in cities, in soviet-style high rise apartments, utilizing bicycles, buses and trains for transportation. The use of automobiles and access to pristine wilderness (rural) areas would be off-limits to us mere mortals, and would only be available for these anointed environmentalists.
The endangered species act is another abuse of environmentalism. Species are always changing, to adapt to their environments-survival if the fittest. In fact, the hoopla over the spotted owl (that placed much northwest timber land off-limits to logging) turned out to be nothing but scientific misconduct and arrogance. There are virtually identical species in other parts of the northwest.
More scientific malpractice occurred when government biologists attempted to plant lynx fur in certain areas to provide an excuse for making those areas off-limits for logging or development. Fortunately, these scientists were caught, however, no punishment was imposed.
In order to promote the false religion of “global warming” aka “climate change”, NASA “scientists” purposely installed temperature sensors in city parking lots and roads contrary to good scientific principles and practices in order to “skew” the “global warming” results.
In a nutshell, today’s environmentalism IS communism like watermelon-green on the outside and red (communist) on the inside.
It is interesting to note that communist and third-world countries have the WORST environmental conditions on the planet. Instead of the USA and other developed countries spending billions to get rid of that last half-percent of pollution, it would behoove the communist countries to improve their conditions first. Here is a question for you environmentalists: Why is there a push for restrictive environmental regulations, but only on the developed first-world countries, and not the gross polluters such as India and China?

yahsure
yahsure
April 22, 2019 9:30 am

I think destroying the rain forest so pastures for cattle is a bad idea. Also the clearing of land for planting trees for palm oil. Meat is so expensive I don’t see many people buying it. It stays on the shelf and gets old. In the future, pork will be like this. Wheat prices will go insane also. A lot of crop losses this year.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  yahsure
April 22, 2019 8:43 pm

The Prog fantasy called the Amazon rain forest is a net consumer of oxygen and has only existed since the end of the ice age.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran
April 22, 2019 10:55 am

Living in MN, I respond to the warmists with mocking incredulity: “so you’re afraid of nicer weather?”

DavidC
DavidC
  Iska Waran
April 22, 2019 12:13 pm

It’s the same way in Upstate NY… but we have fewer warmists and more realists…

Daruma
Daruma
April 22, 2019 2:47 pm

Absolute madness, but the world has seen this many times before.
http://hirocker.com/mania/modern-mania.html

455Kc
455Kc
April 22, 2019 2:57 pm

I often wonder how many of those mother fuckers who shout and scream “The Science is Settled” ever got a passing grade in 7th grade science class?

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  455Kc
April 22, 2019 8:51 pm

Very few I imagine. The “settled science” mantra is the slogan of the fraud and the fool. Check out Mark Steyn’s book “A Disgrace to the Profession” over which he was unsuccessfully sued by Prog science fraudsters in Canada. The 97% of all scientists Michael Mann claimed support “global warming” is actually something like a few dozen guys out of thousands of scientists working in the field. Steyn’s sin was investigating and discovering this fact.

455Kc
455Kc
  Harrington Richardson
April 23, 2019 12:34 am

and he has some other interesting titles; looks like some more good reading. Thanks. I can still hear that “settled science” bull shit ring in my ears as bho used to say it.

Tarpan
Tarpan
April 22, 2019 9:56 pm

Pathetic argument Monbiot is much closer to the truth. There is no such animal as unlimited growth at %3/year.