From the “say anything to save the planet” department comes this wackadoodle idea from Weepy Bill. I’m sure ISIS will get behind him to drain our defense budget fighting mostly intangible threats.
Described by the Boston Globe as “America’s most important environmentalist”, 350.org founder Bill McKibben says America’s defense budget must “be put to work defending us against the most dangerous adversaries we face” — climate change.
BILL MCKIBBEN:
“It should be possible to build large quantities of solar panels and turbine blades, and it should be possible to put lots of people at work on good jobs doing that, okay? And it should be a huge priority, and if you think we don’t have the money then you’re not paying attention. We have things like the defense budget that need to be put to work defending us against the most dangerous adversaries we face. The conceit of that New Republic piece was that we are in fact already at war though we do not really recognize it. But, by all the measures that we normally count as warfare, that’s what’s going on. We’re losing territory day by day. People are being killed day by day in great numbers. There will probably be added to that death toll tonight someplace along the coast of Florida. We’re at war, we’re just not fighting back, and the time has come to do that, and it will take as the history of WWII shows, government leadership to make that happen. It will take a concentrated national effort and a concentrated international effort to make that happen. It won’t happen on its own, it requires leadership.”
Bill McKibben: The Hottest Fight in the Hottest Year – Oberlin College Oberlin, Ohio October 6, 2016
h/t to the Harry Read Me Files and Matt Dempsey
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There used to be a difference between “defense” and “offense”. History shows that having a defense is a good thing, but Bill McKibben thinks we are already in a war (against climate change). We are not. What he is proposing sounds more like a crusade.
What would he actually spend all that money on besides wind and solar? Why not just go into debt further like his politician friends do? (sarc)
“What he is proposing sounds more like a crusade.”
Gaia Wills It.
Bill Mck had written this long ago and has had it sitting in the out box ever since, ready to go. He has been waiting hopefully, ever since, for and opportunity or excuse to send it out.
Hurricane Mathew came along and Bill’s heart rate increased, his breathing became more rapid, and blood pressure increased; muscle tensed and skin flushed. Blood flow was directed away from head and brain.
This is it, says Bill.
He reaches for the the press release, grabs it off the top of the out box, and enthusiastically goes over it on more time before editing it ever so slightly and sending it off for others to see.
Alas, his anticipation is not rewarded. The Mathew does not climax in the level of destruction that was expect. Actually no climax at all … Mathew just fades away. As such, Bill’s press release is subdued; it does no come off the way he expected … it just fades away as well.
Poor Bill has another reason to weep.
“Bill Mck had written this long ago …”
I don’t think so. What I’m seeing in this as well as the wild comments on another WUWT thread defending wind farms (they’re better than advertised! there are absolutely no downsides!) is that these people are doubling down in the face of their impending demise – that even they recognize at least unconsciously.
All these articles showing up at the same time (including McKibben and Pennington), make me wonder if there is some sort of letter writing campaign to get the US military involved in fighting global warming.
A few more articles for the list, written by David Titley, Professor of Practice in Meteorology & Director Center for Solutions to Weather and Climate Risk, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Center for New American Security, Pennsylvania State University.
How climate change could erode our national security: Rising temperatures could lead to ‘ungoverned spaces and uncontrolled migration’
Expert says climate change affects our security in two ways
It causes stresses, such as water shortages, which creates tension
These problems can lead to state failure and ungoverned spaces
Rising sea levels threaten military bases, making it hard to train soldiers
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3827608/How-climate-change-erode-national-security-Rising-temperatures-lead-ungoverned-spaces-uncontrolled-migration.html
A military view on climate change: It’s eroding our national security and we should prepare for it
https://theconversation.com/a-military-view-on-climate-change-its-eroding-our-national-security-and-we-should-prepare-for-it-65535
snedly nettled a few folk hereabouts
I just wonder if the name is a play on Smedley – as in General Smedley R Butler? – two time recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor.
That frankly chilling press conference Gen. Mark Milley gave a few days ago makes me think maybe Batty Bill might have a point ….. – but not for the reasons he thinks……
Given Obama’s pacifist, apologist, appeasing nature, I’m surprised (pleasantly) at the aggressive tone several of the US military leaders have had over the past several months. I wonder if Obama will let them do their jobs, assuming things kick off before he leaves office (Obama can’t get out of office too soon). If I were the Russia/China/Iran, I would start things rolling (assuming that’s their plan) now, before Obama leaves. That’ll give them several months of confusion in the US to consolidate gains before the new president (Trump or Hillary) takes office. It’ll likely give them several months after the new president takes office and decides what is going to be done, if anything, too.
McKibben is a Rockefeller funded left-wing shill. And IMO, the Rockefeller foundations are anti-America, anti-freedom, and evil.
I’m getting really tired of “turning the other cheek”.
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a history of popular folly by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay, first published in 1841.
The following quotations from this prescient book describe the extraordinary popular delusion of Catastrophic Manmade Global Warming, and the madness of the scoundrels and imbeciles who support this ridiculous scam.
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”
“Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when discovered, comes upon most of us like an intruder, and meets the intruder’s welcome.”
“We go out of our course to make ourselves uncomfortable; the cup of life is not bitter enough to our palate, and we distill superfluous poison to put into it, or conjure up hideous things to frighten ourselves at, which would never exist if we did not make them.”
“We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.”
Cause-based mentality tends to lose track of perspective very quickly. Nothing else matters.
Keep in mind McKibben is not overly bright and has very modest academic credentials. A silly little fellow.
Is he planning to nuke the cyclones?