RR Phantom
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| Subject: Elites Are Using Climate Hysteria to Immiserate the Working Class Sat Oct 30, 2021 5:56 pm | |
| Few things in life are as predictable as the rhetoric of climate change summits like this coming week's in Glasgow. Over the next week, you will hear again and again that the planet is dying and that climate change will cause mass dislocations and starvation. The end is nigh, the UN has told us, and only green house gas reducing penance can save us.
We have been hearing this now for decades, with each global confab upping the ante, insisting that with the inevitable denouement, "not enough" is being done and what we need is to get more militant. And this despite whatever progress has been made.
The climate industrial complex, as economist Bjorn Lonborg has aptly called the climate doomsday crowd, has persuaded the media to indulge consistent exaggeration and predictions that link virtually any weather event— droughts, floods , hurricanes or heavy rains—directly to human caused climate change. As President Obama's undersecretary of energy for science, physicist Steve Koonin, pointed out, the most widely reported projections reflect only highly improbable worse case scenarios based on such things as ever growing coal usage and no significant technological improvement.
.https://www.newsweek.com/elites-are-using-climate-hysteria-immiserate-working-class-opinion-1643962?fbclid=IwAR1bLModNn955tonwBngHzPcZNGgZBZhzhC-UnC1mPkCG0js5o6ChG7AMPc
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