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grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Sun Oct 31 23:57:11 PDT 2021


https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/10/28/is-climate-alarmism-an-establishment-attempt-to-restore-social-unity/

Is Climate Alarmism An Establishment Attempt To Restore Social Control?



Over the years, I’ve noticed pretty much every establishment attempt
to push a climate agenda is accompanied by a call for people to unite.

What if fear of change, of loss of control, and a desire for social
unity and predictability are the real driving force behind the climate
push?

    Does the UK need a referendum on climate change pledges?

    Critics say net-zero target has been imposed by ‘elites’ without
electoral mandate

    27 OCT 2021

    A large proportion of the British public are in favour of a
referendum on the government’s net-zero proposals, according to a new
poll by YouGov.

    ...

    The Tony Blair Institute’s Tim Lord rejected the idea that
“elites” are behind the drive for climate action. He said “there is
irony in this – as it is the poorest who will be most severely
affected by unconstrained climate change”.

    Lord agreed that the net-zero target was introduced in the summer
of 2019 with minimal debate in the Commons and no mention of the plan
in the 2017 election – but it was included in the Conservative
manifesto ahead of the December 2019 election.

    While delivering net zero is a “complex task” that “cannot be
achieved without public support for both the overall goal, and the
policies required to get there”, this “cannot mean everyone supports
every measure”, he said. Consent must be drawn from a broad base and
“net zero has to be based around a politics of unity, not division”.

    ...
    Read more: https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/uk-news/954591/does-the-uk-need-a-referendum-on-net-zero-pledges

Here’s another call for unity;

    Pope Francis praises youth activists in fight to tackle climate change

    “It is said that you are the future, but in these matters, you are
the present. You are those who are making the future today, in the
present,” the pontiff said.

    ...

    The pope said solutions to climate change, including sustainable
development and production, must be built on unity and a shared sense
of responsibility.

    “There must be harmony between people, men and women, and the
environment,” he said. “We are not enemies. We are not indifferent. We
are part of this cosmic harmony.”

    ...
    Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/pope-francis-praises-youth-activists-fight-tackle-climate-change-rcna2401

China wants unity too;

    China releases white paper on climate change response

    Updated 18:47, 27-Oct-2021

    China on Wednesday released a white paper on the country’s
policies and measures for responding to climate change. China has set
a goal of peaking carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and achieving
carbon neutrality by 2060.

    ...

    The white paper states that climate change is a cause shared by
all of humanity. Faced with unprecedented challenges in global climate
governance, the international community needs to respond with
unprecedented ambition and action. We need to act with a sense of
responsibility and unity, take proactive measures, and work together
to pursue harmony between humanity and nature.

    ...
    Read more: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-10-27/China-releases-white-paper-on-climate-change-response-14Hs1nziBe8/index.html

Unity, unity, UNITY. Plenty more examples where they came from.

When you think about it, a child could see through the nonsensical
claims of climate alarmists. If slightly warmer temperatures are so
terrible, why aren’t slightly warmer places already suffering all the
problems alarmists say will happen? But climate alarmism, as a
potential source of social unity, is far too valuable allow it to be
defeated by mere logic.

What has caused this sudden upsurge in fear amongst global elites,
that they are losing control?

I believe the trigger for this panic amongst the global elites was the
fall of the Soviet Union. The Soviet State, right up until the very
end, seemed all powerful, enormous, an unstoppable juggernaut with its
terrifying state security apparatus and apparently complete control of
communication.

But the Soviets failed to adapt to the information revolution.

    ...

    “Truth is good,” goes an old Russian proverb that Shane quotes,
“but happiness is better.”

    The earliest stirrings of free thought were nurtured on the radio
broadcasts of Voice of America and the crude, self-published books and
tape recordings of the Samizdatand Magnitizdat movements. By the end,
of course, it was CNN and cellular phones that finally defeated the
Soviet Union.

    “The exploding arsenal of electronics–cellular telephones, fax
machines, VCRs, satellite dishes, computers with modems–demonstrated a
trend for technology to become more compact, portable, versatile and
inexpensive,” Shane explains. “As such, the new machines seemed to be
weapons the citizen could wield against the state as readily as the
state could use them on the citizen.”

    As Shane points out, the phrase “information revolution” takes on
an entirely new meaning in this context. And he helps us understand
how stirring but also how bizarre it must have been for a Soviet
citizen to turn on his television set and see the top brass of the KGB
on a call-in show: “Tonight they will be answering the questions,” the
host announced.

    ...
    Read more: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-05-11-ls-56160-story.html

China has survived more successfully than the Soviets, because they
had more money. Deng Xiaoping’s capitalist economic reforms in the
1980s gave the CCP the financial resources they needed to buy
monitoring equipment and expertise, which made them more able to keep
up with the information revolution. But even the Chinese are
struggling to contain the free flow of information which is
undermining state control of public narratives. Global freedom
initiatives have provided systems like the TOR Project, which are used
by Chinese citizens who want to sneak past the Great Chinese Firewall,
so they can keep track of what is really going on in the world.

If global elites cannot control communication technology, the next
best thing is to try to dominate the conversation, through a fear
campaign and a call for global unity. The focus point for that push
for global unity didn’t have to be climate change, but I believe they
chose climate alarmism because it was convenient and available, and
already had a significant following at the time the elites took an
interest. Mikhail Gorbachev, after he lost his old job as the last
dictator of the Soviet Union, spent a lot of time in the early 90s
supporting United Nations climate initiatives.

The desire by elites to cling on to control, in my opinion, is why
climate alarmism has survived repeated embarrassing predictive
failures.

Normally when a scientific theory produces a disastrous series of
wrong predictions, the theory withers and dies. But in my opinion
global elites are keeping climate alarmism on life support, with vast
infusions of taxpayer’s cash for compliant researchers, and en entire
renewable energy industry which only exists because the governments of
the world keep diverting taxpayer’s cash to pay the bills.

So long as a significant portion of the population believes in the
climate crisis, this powerful source of social unity is too useful for
spooked global elites to surrender.

The elite desire to hold back the information revolution at any price
does nothing good for ordinary people.

Frightening kids with false climate doomsday narratives might buy the
elites a little time, by helping the elites to retain their grip on
power in the face of the technology driven growth of free speech and
open communication, but the kids who accept the climate lies endure
tremendous personal suffering.


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