I had a tough time deciding if this should be “Quote of the Week” or “Climate Craziness of the Week”. The quote is from 350.org’s founder Bill McKibben, who says:
I, as you can tell, am the furthest thing from an activist leader. I’m a writer.
One might believe that…. except for right above that statement is this photo and headline:
You can read the entire essay here: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-26/is-a-leaderless-climate-movement-like-al-qaeda-.html
(h/t to Ryan Maue)
A simple search of Bill McKibben and protest yields many photos like this:
Source: http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20110823/NEWS02/110822034/McKibben-out-jail-encourages-more-protests
I used to think Bill McKibben was simply a misguided visionary.
But now with his self image delusion in the face of his own actions, I think maybe he’s just in denial, perhaps even afflicted with some sort of personality disorder.
Steve Milloy flagged this article on junkscience.com on the day it was published. It is full of juicy quotes illustrating McKibben’s looniness. A particular favourite of mine:
“I’m confident this movement will continue to grow and reshape things. I’m not completely confident it will happen in the time frame that physics allows us. That’s why it’s a really interesting contest, and a contest with by far the highest stakes that human beings have ever played for. Ever. ”
Wow!
In photos like this, you can tell the naive useful idiots by the carnival smiles on their faces. You can round this kind of crowd up from any university, especially students who don’t have a demanding curriculum in their field. In Montreal last year, student protests paralyzed downtown, shutting down most of the university departments for months. I was managing an industry project at the engineering physics department of the Ecole Polytechnique at the University of Montreal and worried that we would be missing deadlines, etc. When I got to the University, I found the engineering folks and science faculties all busy at their work. Probably other serious faculties were also at work.
It’s definitely the cotton candy departments that supply and probably incite their students to take an opportunity to be “useful”. The fact that guys like McKibben surround themselves with such unquestioning mannikins speaks oodles about the cynicism and emptiness of the movement.
“I, as you can tell, am the furthest thing from an activist leader. I’m a [science fiction] writer. ”
There, fixed.
Wow he really is delusional if he thinks the Arab Spring was non-violent!
Wikipedia has an estimate of over 120,000 deaths. Bill McKibben is as out of touch on the Arab Spring as he is about climate change.
beat to me it, Jeff Alberts!
Hillarious photo – here they are all protesting about global warming, wrapped up in furs and duvets against the cold.
Glad to be of service! 😉
I would say that McDrivel, Leandowski, Hansen and Ehrlich are all personality disordered, with a good splash of Narcissism in there.
Unfortunately, narcissists have a way of attracting a following . . . [snip]
I’d be curious to know what sort of correlation there is between diagnosable narcissism and global warming alarmism. Plenty, I would guess.
If I refer to Bill McKibben as the Al Sharpton of climate change will I be sued? And if so, which one is going to claim he has been defamed by comparison to the other? Maybe both?
Hanson and McGibbon both have that sociopath’s smirk, the glee at doing their thing.
In order to analyse this properly, you must consider what the speaker was thinking as he used the words, not what you thought he meant by the words he used.
For example, he may have been thinking, “I wouldn’t call myself an activist, or even an advocate. What I am engaged in is economic warfare on the US.”
So, Bill McKibben’s statement that he is “not an activist” could in fact be qualified as truthful self-reporting. 😉 😀 You know, for a progressive.
What’s frightening is all those people behind him that believe the climate nonsense….