Guest essay by Eric Worrall
More green jingoism – President Macron of France is apparently now leader of the global climate effort, but for some reason Macron doesn’t qualify as enough of a climate leader to make it to the title of the article.
Climate change is World War III, and we are leaderless
By David Shearman
Posted Tue at 5:05am“World War III is well and truly underway. And we are losing,” writes environmental activist Bill McKibben, so when Malcolm Turnbull implied that the insurgency that demolished his government was based on climate ideology, what lessons are there for Scott Morrison?
As a child in Britain during WWII, I lived in a street of mothers and children. Every father was away fighting. Each house and garden was surrounded by a metal palisade fence.
One morning the fences were gone, mother was delighted. Then a horse and cart came and took away every metal cooking pot and pan, some treasured, but mother smiled at her sacrifice. It was difficult for me to understand.
She had responded to the call from Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Aircraft Production, for the women of Britain to: “Give us your aluminium. … We will turn your pots and pans into Spitfires and Hurricanes.”
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Britain was a united and cohesive community. Young and old worked daily in small ways for the common cause. But most importantly, in the free world, two countries — Britain and the US — had leaders in Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt who could explain the need for duty and sacrifice.
Their like is yet to emerge today, and indeed the Western world is bereft, perhaps apart from French President Emmanuel Macron, who explained to Congress and the American people that secure borders are irrelevant to this threat, and all of us are world citizens needing to act in concert. “There is no Planet B,” he said.
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Dr David Shearman is the honorary secretary of Doctors for the Environment Australia and Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Adelaide University.
Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-28/climate-change-is-world-war-3-and-we-are-leaderless/10168962
Poor President Macron – he has made such an effort to be a global climate leader, abusing President Trump’s hospitality by strutting his stuff in front of the US Congress, offering US climate funding refugees seven figure grants to emigrate to France, yet the author David Shearman doesn’t think Macron rates a mention until the eighth paragraph.
Too bad we can’t line up everyone that served in WW1 and WW2 and let them have a minute with Bill McKibbles.
Australia has more than its fair share of climate loonies but I think the infection rate may be slowing.
‘Young and old worked daily in small ways for the common cause.’
Gramsciites. Doesn’t matter what the cause is, as long as people accept socialism. Climate change is a tool to get people to accept socialism. It’s not about the climate, or even the weather.
“… Like fascism, climate change is one of those rare crises that gets stronger if you don’t attack …” (Pastor McKibben).
I think we must wait until CC™ occupies the Rhineland.
The McKibben quote: “… fighting this war would be socially transformative …” spills the beans.
Climate change mitigation policy is also a crisis that gets worse if not defended against in a proactive manner.
A lot…too many it’s getting so common it’s lost it’s effect….of these professors and politicians pontificate this crap to make themselves appear more important
CAGW is indeed part of WW3. The Marxists are trying to take over. They insist that democracy isn’t strong enough to combat CAGW. We have today’s previous WUWT story. We have it straight from the horse’s mouth in the persons of Maurice Strong and Christiana Figueres. It’s not like they’re denying it.
Every time the communists have taken over a country, the results have been a disaster … every time. Given the tens of millions killed by the likes of Stalin and Mao, this CAGW false flag war is just that … it is a war against democracy.
Nothing says duty and sacrifice like Social Security and the New Deal. After all, planning for your retirement is an unrealistic duty that should be assumed by your betters.
And since France is leading the war on modernity, I assume we’ll be seeing the terms of surrender any minute now as the sun rises and starts to warm the day there.
I assume you’d be happy to see the low IQ and unlucky starve to death in their old age.
I assume you believe that Ponzi schemes work. And “luck” in the vast majority of cases just means bad choices that I don’t want to be responsible for. Heinlein put it well:
Families and private charity performed much, much better than government has at taking care of the unfortunate.
Despite the fact that the country was much, much poorer than compared to today. Nobody starved in retirement. SS solved a problem that existed solely in the mind of leftists.
For reference, Macron, a “banker”, admitted during the debate against MLP (alleged “far right”, just another commie) that he didn’t know by which mechanism you could pay your employees in currency X while selling to customers in currency Y. He made a funny face while saying that (very poor actor).
Of course after this meltdown ALL medias would find that Macron was an expert, brillant, “the professor”, etc. And MLP had the worst day in her life (she was actually unclear on her plan and the difference of her plan with the SME or SME, but Macron did not even tried to expose a plan for anything).
Fact checkers then tried to say that Macron was right (or wrong in the right way as the Graun would put it, insisting that the ECU was not a currency or a currency not often used). But I don’t understand why they wouldn’t admit that Macron had a really bad debate. It doesn’t matter: MLP is hated, inept, she hates freedom and capitalism like the communist voters she is shamelessly hitting on (with not much success, as the results show).
I still don’t understand why the French ruling class would go all in to deny the poor debate of Macron. It’s a national brain washing exercice. Ask someone in France: who was better in the debate? It’s Macron. What did he say that was sensible? Crickets. Did MLP say something silly? (actually yes) Almost nobody can cite anything actually silly she actually said.
The treatment of the debate by the medias need to be investigated.
simple touriste…
Was The Aussie MSM in charge of reporting that debate? Particularly our ABC, the Australian Broadcasting Commission. The taxpayer funded Government broadcaster which has never come across a Lefty Luvvie concept worth challenging or questioning. This century.
He was downright patronising there while it was not a bad idea. I think or at least hope that it will be a matter of time until these tactics are found out by the peoples of the EU.
Poor little Micron and his mum.
Micron makes reliable memory, Gary. My sister does electron microscope inspection at the Boise plant. Please don’t paste their trademark over that enemy of progress. 😉
We are indeed in a war, but not as depicted here. The war is between reason and the insanity of the green blob.
I think the war is actually against a global socialist despot coup which uses the quasi-scientific religion of certain anthropogenic climate disaster as its central agenda.
Dear David Shearman, climate change is not “World War III”, anymore than there are “battles” with hurricanes, earthquakes, or even tornadoes.
It wreaks of society obsessed with self-destruction and prodded by pseudoscience.
Yes, a divided Vichy France type war more likely
WWIII is in the past. It was the Cold War. It involved countries, world-wide, siding with either the NATO alliance, the Soviet Union, or trying to maintain neutrality in spite of the pressure from both sides. Everything from the Iron Curtain falling across Europe to the collapse of the Soviet Union is the Cold War. It did have its hot spots.
No, GP Hanner it is not in the past, it is part of the present. The Cold War was the child of the second WW which was born out of the treaty of Versailles. WW1 was the “love” child from the Franco-Prussian war
But this is not what I was intending to speak off. The article talks of leadership and its lack.
Look at all the great battles, everywhere, you will find one person who stands up and calls “Follow me”
Normandie was June 6, all those years ago, on all those Beaches there were countless men of all ranks who rose up calling follow me.
You must have the courage of your convictions to lead and a willingness to sacrifice all.
I will stop my moralizing now.
michael
Wrong about WWI which started the Century of Hell. It was as Bismarck warned when they fired him in 1899, the planned British 7-years war of Edward VII, who called from the grave “follow me”.
See Two Grenadiers By Heinrich Heine (1799-1856) https://www.bartleby.com/177/79.html
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“Then my emperor rides across my grave,
And swords will be clashing hard:
And armed I’ll rise up from my grave, 35
My emperor to guard!”
Edward VII’s Geopolitics, from the grave , again , beckoning to attach Russia , again, as Napoleon, Hitler’s declared Vorgänger, did.
I like that Micheal.
War time Leaders of men.
“…Macron, who explained to Congress and the American people that secure borders are irrelevant to this threat…”.
Come on, Junior, we can follow the premise and conclusion, and detect fallacious reasoning. No one here is saying that the two (border security and AGW or CCC) are related in anyway. Rhetoricians call this device a Non-Sequitur, the figure of irrelevance, a point that doesn’t follow its predecessor. Oops. Nor is any solution a logical conclusion to an argument that begins with the premise that GW and climate change are due to CO2 emissions, man made, or in any political sense amenable to regulation or legislation or UN resolution, premises falsified by empirical data collected from numerous studies. Nor do we consider a 0.8-2.5C Temperature increase over the coming century much of a threat, so there’s not much need to beat that dead horse of the Precautionary Principle. God help us if the West ever finds itself in an Actual WWIII.
Please, no more 8×10 portraits of Macron. I may wish to eat dinner later.
Every time I see that guy I start humming “Coo coo kachoo, Mrs Robinson …”.
It is unlikely that WWIII has started. If it had, France would have surrendered by now.
That’s what Macron wants to do, he’s just looking for someone to surrender to.
He’s clearly surrendered to the climate alarmists, just as France surrendered to the Nazi’s in WWII.
What should France have done? Fight against a superior military until complete destruction?
France surrendered to pacifists leftists in the 30ties. Germany was allowed to rebuild a military.
IMO, it has and they have. A slow, unarmed invasion of is having its effect with more and larger no-go zones throughout Europe and the UK. If a real push-back against this invasion begins in France, those unarmed invaders will have already become armed. As it is going, though, the invaders will simply vote themselves into power and covert the country to a theocracy.
According to French black market specialists, a gun or even a military rifle isn’t expensive on the black market. It isn’t a high margin business, more like a low entry cost business. Drug trafficking is more lucrative.
Dr Shearman’s article is replete with logical fallacies e.g. false analogies, non sequiturs, appeals to emotion (think of the children), appeals to authority (“As a doctor I know…”), appeals to tradition (Churchill and Roosevelt) etc.
He was a child during WWII but it’s difficult to see which side he was on, the US response to the climate threat is: ‘… as irrational as if the Germans had demolished their “Siegfried Line” of WWII …’.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has been providing Dr Shearman a soapbox for some time:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/david-shearman/32834
“… Better the authoritarianism of the scientific elites than those who want power. This was recommended by Plato who saw democracy bowing to the needs of the populace-the savage beasts [a.k.a “basket of deplorables”] …”:
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/archived/perspective/david-shearman/3224318
My Australian professional Medical association surveyed and lobbied members to start preaching the ills of climate change. I used data from this website to support my argument. All the members must have been to some degree skeptics like me because it was quietly dropped. I have never heard of “Doctors for the Environment Australia” in forty years of practice and teaching.
ROFLMAO!
There’s a word for it: hubris.
I supposed President Macron needs a cause, after all he has given up on France, preferring to allow Paris and other cities to be trashed by illegal immigrants. Makes me wonder why he is bothering to save anything if he is that indifferent to what is happening to what he is claiming to save,
Macron hasn’t given up, he hated France all the way. He is the first braggingly anti France French president.
He said:
– he doesn’t know what is French culture, he hasn’t met it
– France committed a “crime contre l’humanité” by colonizing and creating Algeria a modern country with high tech extraction infrastructure left for free
– he mocked French citizens as statist, retrograde: “les gaulois”, and he mocked them abroad
– he previously said that no politicians should comment on internal politics abroad, then did exactly that several times
Macron is the caricature of the un-grounded un-cultured golden boy with no shame. Think the characters played by Leonardo DiCaprio, or just think Leonardo DiCaprio the person.
In case necessity really arises mother earth will shrug off those clinging humans. I guess most mothers know that. Including the mother of the author perhaps. As for Macron it seems he hasn’t learned yet to stand on his own two feet, doing his granny. Xcuse me.Not nice and off topic, I know.
Is it possible they’ll run out of superlatives?
I might jump up and claim that ‘taking my next sip of coffee is akin to WW3’ – yet somehow I mange to do it.
Or in *my* case, getting up and walking around – am still ‘in recovery’ from my stroke of 14 years ago and reminded of it constantly.
Without intending I wandered into ‘health’ and…….
Slightly OT but it dawned (from rolling thro a sideshow that fell out of an email recently) that 25% of *all* human deaths in this modern world are caused by something that was pretty well *unknown* a century ago.
Unresearched even until a famous & important guy was taken down by it (Eisenhower 1955)
That killer being Cardio Vascular Disease – it is killing (what?) – 45,000+ people per day around the world?
Even before we get into the damage done by stroke and cancer. Again= Modern Diseases that were really really rare a century ago.
Yet we hear relentlessly how:
…..we have never had it so good
…..life expectancy is ever increasing
…..medical & healthcare science is sooooo clever
and *everyone* swallows that, even hardened skeptics as per round here.
CVD is now ‘The Norm’
What are we looking at there..
1) Is this de-nile?
2) The power of propaganda & salesmanship
3) The ability to adapt
Can we draw any parallels with Climate Science?
Wonder what Mr Self Important Macaroni Man might say about that.
Would he even contemplate the question – my money says no.
Ain’t this sweet – we iz ‘aving ze war avec les frogz-legz
About scallops too – *the* most disgusting blobs of jellified slime ever seen outside a Sci-Fi horror movie.
*ONLY* the French could eat those ‘things’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45342536
Somebody on the English side has badly lost the plot BUT…..and a few centuries overdue ….. having wars with the French *is* an English National Pastime.
And vice-versa – A Good War clears the air – and is ‘Jolly Good Fun’ in The Best English Tradition. Those ocean-going blobs of foul tasting slime are just the excuse.
Modern disease like SEP, Charcot, diabetes, many allergies?
What could be the common factor? Maybe the immunity part?
What could cause such immunological issues? Maybe drugs intended to create immunity?
Maybe he needs a cape and a mask over his eyes to give him that superhero look.
Much as many abuse and laugh at how he looks the Donald is more of a hero to me than all these who talk but don’t do anything useful.
James Bull
Macron is a super hero? What’s his power, insult-and-get-away-with-it?
During the presidential debate, he insulted his opponent. He also looked down on her. Treated her like an idiot. Which apparently impressed many low info voters because the fakestream media told them he had the upper hand (objectively he did not).
[It isn’t that all low info voters vote Macron, MLP is a crackpot and has a bunch of low info voters cheering her inane policies (think Bernie).]
The Internet is useful to have exchanges with these people. They are simply clueless. Many believe MLP talked about the medieval currency l’écu (she mentioned the European currency the ECU). Many believe Macron was the most qualified candidate from the economic/finance/banking POV just because he was a banker – actually he worked for Rothschild, not a regular banking bank where you draw your checks, a commercial bank that does big capitalistic operations. (Some studies showed that these big fusion/acquisitions don’t produce added capitalistic value as often as people think. I think it’s just another cult of Big Something.)
[Rothschild is of course a symbol of big fusions, globalism, and economy without dereference to fundamental interests of the nations that makes it possible, but that accusation can be accused of being crypto-antisemitism which is quite practical even if Macron isn’t Jew: Macron has a very bizarre nose, so a drawing of him featuring his very geometric nose can be classified as typical of the antisemitic drawings of the 30ties, even though his nose isn’t remotely similar to that Jewish nose. Macronists like to play the victims. A lot.]
Remember that time Homer Simpson ran for administrator of the garbage collection in Springfield? Macron looked like politician Homer during his debate against MLP, the quintessential con man. He was making faces as a bad actor and trying to make the extremely low info voters laugh at MLP.
I think that debate needs to be studied more by true communication experts. When most people say Macron crushed MLP but none of these can pinpoint an actual misstatement by MLP, there is a problem. (I think MLP crushed Macron and I can point obvious falsehoods spoken by MLP.)
It’s a simple test if you met a French voter: ask him his conclusion on the debate, then ask him to cite factual statements and misstatements. If he is brainwashed he will happily cite the consensus that Macron crushed MLP and stop here, or mention “misstatements” of MLP that she either never made or that are provably correct.
But again MLP isn’t likable at all. Americans shouldn’t be fond of her, unless they are Occupy people. But the bias against her in France (*) is so great, they don’t even want to talk about the real idiocy of her ideas and the ideas of most of the French “patriosphere” that venerates the STATE. (Marion-Maréchal Le Pen less than the others.)
(*) and among some useless US establishment CPAC “traditional conservatives”, hopefully they have their walk away moment