According to the Daily Mail (and who are we to query this fount of all knowledge), the UK has 470 delegates at the latest climate beano in Azerbaijan. The comments on the article about this publicly funded jaunt for the chosen few are, of course, entirely predictable.
Many futilely point out the obvious contradictions in demonising CO2 emissions from, amongst other things, air travel for the proletariat (these days proles being anyone who isn’t part of the elite) whilst at the same time unnecessarily generating it in bulk. I personally like a bit of CO2, and frankly I’m more aghast at the expense and hypocrisy of the UK delegates in Azerbaijan.
Conversely, many other commenters demonstrate their own in-depth knowledge by simply blaming boomers, Brexiteers and gammons, and of course their ancestors, for either ruining the world’s environment for them and, of course, their benighted children and their children’s children’s children (unless of course the world ends sometime soon and octopuses, or should that be octopi?, take over – another Daily Mail scoop).
Interestingly though there is a third strand of opinion fast gaining ground. This is the ‘New Acceptable National Pride Movement’, that whilst decrying everything that isn’t modern aka woke, is nevertheless not at all reticent about shouting from the rooftops (or should that be from the solar and photovoltaic panels atop their virtuous rooftops) that the UK simply MUST and indeed WILL lead the world in combatting the ‘climate crisis’ by becoming carbon neutral, ideally immediately – and preferably far sooner.
Let’s just suppose for a minute that this were to happen….
It’s a fair bet that those types who clamour loudest for this ‘utopian future‘* will probably be the least well-equipped to actually survive when the piped clean water supply is cut off, shops run out of tinned food (not that most will have any means of paying for it), when there’s no fossil fuels to provide heat and light or, and this might well be the clincher, to generate sufficient reliable electricity to power home appliances, or specifically charge their ‘essential’ mobile ‘phones and entertainment devices. Most forms of employment would also cease to function, but who doesn’t like an enforced holiday? This of course is viewed as scaremongering by the converts and their gullible fellow travellers, because everything will be miraculously powered by ‘clean, green, renewable electricity’, just don’t ask how, or indeed any questions at all – you’re not an expert, and therefore incapable of understanding.
Ask the average green-leaning individual or the full-on convert if (a) they really want the UK to be the first nation state martyr to ending the ‘climate crisis’? and (b) are they really aware of the sacrifices that this would entail? and (c) how would they personally survive in the ensuing anarchy? You can bet you’ll get some trite rote learned waffle response, or still more likely be accused of being ‘far-right’ or a monster or both.
Why do those who are normally so very vocal in accusing the despicable UK (even when they still choose to live here and some, ironically, are quite recent arrivals) of racism, sexism, slavery profiteering – in fact any nasty ‘ism or anything anti-woke/anti-‘latest thing’ – then simultaneously also believe the marvellous UK can lead the world by either singlehandedly ending the ‘climate crisis’, or simply by its example convince the USA, Russia, China and India (plus others) to follow its pioneering suicidal lead?
There is now a malignant and terminal cancer sweeping through the country that sadly permeates everything. Let me give an example: the BBC reported on 12th November that Hull City Council has been awarded funding, which it is using to employ urban designers Planit to work with it for six months, creating a plan “to stimulate the economy, respond to climate change and develop sustainable neighbourhoods”. How the hell is HCC going to respond to (the global natural phenomenon of) climate change? Apart from the glaringly obvious fact that humanity is unable to control the climate, a tin-pot small city council is nevertheless going to try by spending the taxpayers’ money in order to play at being omnipotent. It would be laughable if it were an isolated example of lunacy, but this new quasi-religious cult has taken over and we’re currently unable to stop it. Unfortunately, no cult-busting heroes are making any headway with high-profile rescues, because the elite are all fully signed up to the cult’s beliefs, yet don’t even try to hide their own heretical transgressions.
* Just as in the past, the ultra elite will probably be OK, because they will have pre-arranged access to luxury accommodation and all the trimmings of pre-net zero 21st C life. Unlike the past, this is unlikely to be on their own secure UK estates or even in secret underground Bondesque complexes, but abroad in countries where governments are easily bought, and any troublesome locals easily dispatched without any questions being asked.
Martin Rispin has had a career in many different sectors, most lately in the fields of English Tourism and Heritage based Urban Regeneration. He now lives, retired, in Kingston upon Hull.
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So very true, thoroughly sick of one side of literally everything being presented today as the only acceptable truth (and of people simply accepting this).
It’s very simple, all that needs to be done is engage the services of Inspector Gadget and all the problems of climate change (natural variation) will be solved and the aspiring catastrophists will be all bereft at having nothing left to virtue signal about. Sorry, forgot about the non binary idiocy. There will be plenty for these morons to screech about.
I speak as a person of colour (vaguely sort of pinkish) and my personal pronouns are gamonself and spudulike.
Thank Christ Trump was re-elected.
The BBC now seems to be leading the propaganda on climate change. Watch their recent Panorama output “Can scientists save the word?”. It was lies from being to the end. I never imagined that science could be corrupted in the way that it has been. Machiavelli might have the answer : “Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.”
This is all well expressed and true, but those who are clear sighted enough to understand what is going on are failing to communicate their message to the increasing hordes of cultists. Unless the ongoing guff is repulsed we will suffer under its yoke in ways not yet imagined.
That is it exactly, but how to communicate when everything is tightly sewn up to the extent (to use an analogy) it’s as difficult to change other’s views as it would be to make a case for paedophilia being an acceptable choice – yes I know some do, but the masses have already been thoroughly trained to see satanic abuse and celebrity abusers everywhere, children not being safe unless mollycoddled and every accusation as being definitely true, to the extent that they just couldn’t cope with another viewpoint now. Sorry, not a good analogy but hopefully it makes the point. It’s sad that literally everyone regardless of age or education seems convinced that fake things are definitely real because ‘Why would they lie? They’re experts’. Even the middle aged, middle class crusties that people Civic Societies etc. are now demanding talks that address the ‘climate emergency’, the need for net zero, the evils of CO2 because they genuinely believe it’s real and a threat.
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