We’ve all heard of the “zombie apocalypse”, it gets all sorts of humorous opinions about it, t-shirts, websites, iPhone covers, even the CDC got in on the act.
Now, with the call for civil disobedience to solve the mostly non-existent climate problem we have the “climate science zombie apocalypse”. This is sort of like “low information voters” except they’ll be emotional global warming zealots sans science but armed with brainless talking points. Meanwhile, Earth hasn’t gotten any warmer at the surface since 1995, or in the lower troposphere for a similar amount of time. A tweet from Barack Obama today along with a call for civil disobedience from Alternet shows us what to expect:
From Alternet:
The Rebellion to Save Planet Earth: Why Civil Disobedience Could Be Our Last, Best Hope
Traditional methods for fighting global warming have proven fruitless.
The politics of climate change are shifting. After decades of halfhearted government efforts to stop global warming, and the failure of the “Big Green” NGOs to do much of anything about it, new voices — and new strategies — have taken the lead in the war against fossil fuels.
Jeremy Brecher, a freelance writer, historian, organizer and radio host based in Connecticut, has documented the environmental movement’s turn toward direct action and grass-roots activism. A scholar of American workers’ movements and author of the acclaimed labor history “Strike!,” Brecher argues that it’s time for green activists to address the social and economic impacts of climate change and for unions to start taking global warming seriously.
His latest book, “Climate Insurgency: A Strategy Against Doom,” which will be released early next year by Paradigm Publishers, examines the structural causes of our climate conundrum and calls for a “global nonviolent constitutional insurgency” to force environmental action from below. Brecher spoke to Salon about his vision for dealing with global warming, the changing face of environmental activism, and why he thinks the People’s Climate March in New York on Sep. 21 is so important.
Full story here. h/t to Dennis Wingo.
I’m going to the demonstration with some friends to protest for human rights. We plan on making very large FREE LEOPOLDO LÓPEZ signs. If I were you I would make my own sign and join the march. They can be fun.
I a realist. I would hang at the very back of the parade march. My sign would be stunningly unimaginative but true, “The End is Here.”
Somehow them acting like a bunch of zombies just fits 😉
FWIW, I’ve been at some rallies and some of the time on each side. On the Cops side, they wait for the good folks to go home, then when the rabble rousing starts and the thinned out crowd is just the hard core trouble makers, they make arrests.
Oddly, the present move from debate, to no-debate, to loud and insulting and now to quasi-malicious ‘demonstrations’ sure seems to fit that pattern.
The good folks have gone home. Only the strident are left. They are advocating for mean and potentially illegal and damaging activities. All we need now are the cops to do their job.
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I think calling them “zombies” is a bit over the top.
Zombies are brain-dead.
These guys aren’t brain-dead.
They just don’t know how to use it anymore.
Well, perhaps their brains are dead to them?
🙂
All that will be missing will be red arm bands on their left upper arm.
“Brecher argues that it’s time for green activists to address the social and economic impacts of climate change and for unions to start taking global warming seriously.”
Unions are corporations. The objective of corporations is to make money. Unions will take GW seriously when shown how they can make money on it.
Denniswingo said,
Sorry I missed this. I’m emphatically with Dennis on this. It never ceases to amaze me that people in climate science will sit all day and accept dwindling resources and increasing populations as an inevitability and somehow still see no value or urgency in getting humanity off world at the same time.
We will colonize off-world. It’s strictly a question of when.
The left hate the idea of some of us getting off this planet, because then they can’t boss us around any more. They want Global Government and Sustainability to keep us trapped here, because the speed of light destroys any chance of interstellar government, or even one single government across the solar system. You can’t boss around people you’ll take years, decades or millenia to reach.
The reason they’ll do absolutely anything to keep the Global Whatever They’re Calling It Today scam going is because this is it for Socialism. In a hundred years, we’ll either be living ‘sustainably’ in caves, being bossed around by Al Gore III, or living among the stars, where freedom from them is just one engine burn away.
I’m as right as one can get, and not be a Tea Party fringer. But I see no reason to think man ever has any chance to spend long periods beyond earth. I will fight to the death to stop someone like AlGore, BHO, or the UN from destroying the US constitution.
I read all the SciFi out there as a kid and teenager. The only one that maybe has any reality as maybe doable by a very very advanced civilization is Rendezvous with Rama by AC Clarke. And there the alien life on Rama is recreated from genetic patterns.
But I fundamentally subscribe to Dr Fermi’s paradox as instructive, “Where are they?”
Either we get off this planet, or we die. It only takes one Greenist fanatic with a home bioengineering lab who believes ‘humanity is a cancer’, and most of us are gone. And with this kind of insane rhetoric across the media, that’s going to happen before long. OK, there’ll be survivors who got lucky with natural immunity, but they’re unlikely to be able to restart human civilization and get a second chance to leave.
As for Fermi’s Paradox, the answer seems pretty obvious: we’re the first. Rendezvous With Rama was the 1970s idea of an advanced alien civilization, and seems pretty tame compared to what we could likely do in a few thousand years.
to where?????
That course of action couldn’t possibly end badly..
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
Brecher: “Let’s you and them fight. I’ll…I’ll stand over there and cheer you on.”
Mr Brecher seems to suffer under the illusion that people think AGW is a serious problem. All surveys put this issue at the bottom of a long list of concerns.
People will, at the most, pay lip-service to Global Warming (TM), but are not willing to spend anything on it, let alone hit the streets in an insurgency.
joelobryan
September 9, 2014 at 9:40 pm
“I’m as right as one can get, and not be a Tea Party fringer.”
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Excuse me ! When we are not being called “Deniers”, we prefer to be called “Teabaggers”. It’s a term that makes us all giggle here in the looney bin where critical thinking and common sense are now considered racist pathology by the popular kids.
The actions of that MA DA who dropped charges against a group of AGW activists makes more sense now.
So far, the global warming debate has been the almost perfect thing to teach us how stupid people can be. But if the craziness and polarization gets much worse, it would qualify as a sign of the “End Times”.
Sorry not to take it seriously, however when I read the alternet piece about civil disobedience I channelled Cartman from Southpark and thought…
“Cool, I get to shoot hippies!”
[note – this is a well known joke on that show, so I’ll allow it, but for the record WUWT does not condone shooting anyone – Anthony]
Even the egregious Guardian has finally admitted the existence of the ‘pause’ – with a whole shedload of excuses and flannel – and that it could continue for some years yet.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/09/research-global-warming-hiatus
Some of the comments are hilarious.
Very soon now it is going to become obvious to even the thickest Green buffoon that the climate is in fact cooling.
It will be interesting to see how the High Priests of AGW manage to spin that.
Climate Zombies is an apt description. They are infected with the virus of global warming ideology, their brains have stopped functioning, and they have a voracious appetite for consuming (the resources and production) of the non-infected. Also, no matter what facts you shoot at them, they are impervious.
“There is no debate.” – translation – “I know what I know; don’t bother me with facts.”
First four words are OK. Then needs correcting:
The Rebellion to Save Us from oppressive and dictatorial government: Why Civil Disobedience Could Be Our Last, Best Hope
There, fixed it for ’em.
Who says the earth needs ‘saving?’ What are they saving it for; a rainy day?
The 3rd rock from the sun has been around for about 4.5 billion years. Modern humans have been around for 200,000 years or so. Face it; we are really late to the party. And the earth will still be here long after humans are gone. It doesn’t need us to ‘save it.’
If the rule is ‘Survival of the fittest’ then we should be looking over our shoulders at all the other life forms on this planet that could bump us off. Where’s the march against the all those viruses that have been out to get us?
They are not zombies. They are busy rational people who are merely allowing rogue charlatans to bootjack the formerly pristine sciences. To the extent that they get angry about a lack of layperson adherence to scientific consensus, they are morally uprighteous. Only by destroying the academics, all of them, to the last Mann, who supported a fraud, can you then claim to make fun of them. For where did any of you, individually, loudly CRY OUT: FRAUD!!!
Very few of you did.