Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to Durban’s UN Sustainable Development delegate Debra Roberts, we no longer have the option of choosing how to respond to global warming.
Global warming is ‘right on our doorstep’, panel warns
NEWS / 20 OCTOBER 2018, 6:00PM / ARTHI GOPI
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Dr Debra Roberts, Durban’s climate change champion and co-chairperson at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said global warming was an issue that was “on our doorsteps”, and every action counted.
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“We have passed the era of choices. The report is clear, we have to act now, and rapidly, and at scale. These are significant changes we have to make and we’ve never had to do it at scale before. It’s an unusual challenge,” said Roberts.
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“Industries need to change, and we as consumers need to change to make sure we have an impact in bringing about change. We also have to make these changes rapidly because we have about 12 years to cap the temperature rise.
“We need to build our buildings differently, have more meat-free meals, look at how we move around with transportation and what energy we are using. We can no longer be complacent, it’s right here on our doorstep,” she said.
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Read more: https://www.iol.co.za/ios/news/global-warming-is-right-on-our-doorstep-panel-warns-17566339
Make no mistake, the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming was the opening salvo of the great power grab greens have been building up to. If enough people believe their call to arms, we really may pass the “era of choices”.
What focus group did these people get the 12 year number from.
Is is like Obama’s promise of $2500 savings for everyone if Obamacare was instituted?
They came to that number because it was high enough that it got big positive attention during the campaign but low enough that people would still believe it.
There was no factual basis for the choice of that number.
Yep. You and your ilk have reached the state of wishful thinking and pipe dreams.
Debra Roberts cannot play in the racist politics of South Africa and be somebody.
She can however be a high muckety-muck when it comes to the international scene and be an actor.
Debra Roberts cannot play in the racist politics of South Africa and be somebody.
She can however be a high muckety-muck when it comes to the international scene and be an actor..
I looked for global warming on the doorstep but there was only the doormat.
How do you rationalise this woman?
(Today’s Trivia: Debra, Debs, Devon, Deborah = The Bee. Rather odd that innit, you’d have thought that bees with their ‘stinging thing’ would be masculine. Nowt as queer as folks eh)
She’s like me, scared shitless by cameras.
To be coming out with this stuff, she is patently ‘high-as-a-kite’
As per the IPCC with their latest verbiage about ’12 years’.
(Or wherever the goalposts are now. Does anyone really care? As soon as you find them, you also find that they’ve moved)
I suggest it is the Football Crowd Effect = a critical mass of people, determined to ‘have a good time’ (who doesn’t) and the IPCC have reached that ‘critical mass’ Some while ago.
They are euphoric and in that critical mass are self-sustaining, they feed off each other’s energy. It perpetuates itself, at least for a while. A bit like tornados or hurricanes even?
As happens at rock concerts, (good-time places entirely contrived to achieve criticality) someone will ‘bubble up to the top’ and go Crowd Surfing.
A totally euphoric person will emerge and become symbolic of that self generated ‘happiness’ and hedonism.
She is A Crowd Surfer. J. Hansen not least also.
The search for a ‘good time’ sees COP conferences being scattered across the globe at nice places with 10’s of thousands of participants. Guaranteed to create the crowd or self-induced euphoria.
I’d venture 20,000+ in one place for one reason *should* get a real good party up and running.
It’s surely what ‘herds’ and social creaturing is all about.
THAT is hedonism, the desire for a ‘good time’ and intrinsically, *nothing* at all wrong with it – it is after all what makes life worth living.
Hence we often see the desire for endless electricity, coal, oil and malting barley.
and cannabis and coca-cola and cocaine and caffeine and prozac etc etc – chemically induced Good Time
That IOL place is interesting:
https://www.iol.co.za/business-report/opinion/free-speech-at-risk-as-debate-on-climate-change-grows-2008639
The writer of that article uses the words ‘insanity’ and ‘mob’ (slightly Ad-Hom) but here’s a sampler:
I venture to disagree with that.
The ‘mob’ tell us all those things and many/most people take that onboard, not least because they want to become all those things (rich & educated & well-heeled, nice houses & power-over-others etc etc)
But these well-heeled, our leaders, doctors and scientists who tell us that it is OK and in fact ‘recommended’ or even required to consume a particular array of mind-bending chemicals.
Alcohol. sugar. opium. Prozac and now of course, cannabis.
Climate Change is a self-induced euphoria, it is all inside people’s heads.
And they make their very nice & comfortable livings off the backs of supplying, regulating and taxing those things.
Plus not least, from THE fastest Growing Growth Industry of all time= Health Care.
(To attempt repair of the damage done and slow the death-rate coming from using all that chemical junk)
But then, to try a little meta-ethics of my own – Is That Wrong?
If everyone is ‘having a good time’ and Growth Industries are an absolute requirement for modern day economies, what’s not to like?
(What does Kool Aid taste like, is it nice? IOW: Addictive?)
But especially, why the need for chemically induced Good Time?
Is it conceivable that ‘something must be wrong’ with The Real World that sooooooo many people use soooooo many chemicals to escape from it?
No mistake, and the well-heeled are the biggest users and also the most mendacious about doing so.
Not to be fussy, but to be fussy. All stinging bees are sterile females and that “stinging thing” is a vestigial ovipositor.
We have a saying round my way when someone spouts such crap:
Jog on, sweetheart.
‘“We have passed the era of choices. The report is clear, we have to act now, and rapidly, and at scale. These are significant changes we have to make and we’ve never had to do it at scale before. It’s an unusual challenge,” said Roberts.’
‘We’, kemo sabe?
She sure says ‘we’ a lot. She’s free to do whatever she wants. She is not in charge of ‘we.’
sorry
I could not find the contact details of Debra Roberts
Anyone here who can help me with that>?
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Ray,
you sound like a Nazi?
WoW! Tell us what you really think Ray….
Why don’t we leave the killing of everyone who disagrees with us to the left.
They’ve been doing it a lot longer and are better at it.
It only takes a few comments like this from Ray to be repeated around the world in other forums to show the rest of the world that all of us who frequent WUWT are raging lunatics. I vote that this comment be struck from the record so as to preserve the morals of WUWT and all the other commenters who visit here to discuss and spread civilized ideas. That isn’t freedom of speech: this is the definition of murderous hate speech. I would expect to permanently banned if I wrote such a hate filled murderous comment. I know the Mods are busy and all, but this type of hate diatribe should never, ever get posted.
Don’t fall for this. It/He isn’t what it seems.
“We have passed the era of choices.”
Does she understand what she is saying? That the time has come for coercion, for force of some sort to make the global populace behave as she claims it should? That democracies and republics are impediments because “the people” aren’t making the correct and necessary choices in her rock-solid worldview?
She is saying that the era we are in demands and justifies a revolution in the street if a coup by powerful insiders doesn’t happen. If change won’t happen organically, it must be imposed.
She is saying our laws and legislative processes in which disparate views and concerns have legitimacy need be set aside. When the “era of choices” is over, what needs come is a totalitarian imposition of will by the powerful over the powerless – the Green wise over the unwise.
This is classic Marxist, the position that a “natural” society of theoretical freedom for all is a sham, that “freedom”, i.e. choice, exists only for the governors. The “people” must displace the existing power elite with their own to bring the “right” way of living to the commoners. Truth is inadequate, process is a barrier to justice and structure is designed to perpetuate the status quo. Talk is useless; only force is sufficient.
What bubble does she live in? Or is this just hyperbole? I would like to think she exaggerates for effect, but my gut says she (and others of similar speech) are speaking clearly. And we should pay attention.
There was a term for one of her verbal vein: rabble-rouser. Professional agitator is another. Then there is the really scary one: political agitator. The type who call out the mobs but are never in the front lines, never at the pointy end of the stick or – here – waiting for public transit to go and pick up her weekly allotment of insect protein.
The “era of choices” is over. Play it out, Debbie. All revolutions require the active support of the military. You really think the American military is behind the IPCC alarm?
I object to the use of this sort of aggressive posturing – if hyperbolic posturing it is – because it energizes the worst aspects of people. It inhibits rather than empowers the betterment of the world – the 20th century has adequate examples of what happens when the mob is aroused to a fury and law, order and due process are abandoned for “the public good”.
But in the back of my mind is the feeling she is not virtue-signaling. She and a number of other UN figures, with their “useful idiots” like McKibben and Suzuki, are serious. Armchair revolutionaries they may be, but the type that see a troop carrier outside the White House disgorging soldiers in blue berets on their heads and Gaia symbols sewn on their sleeves as a wonderful image. In fact, a necessary image.
“She is saying that the era we are in demands and justifies a revolution in the street if a coup by powerful insiders doesn’t happen. If change won’t happen organically, it must be imposed.”
The objective is to seize government and the means of production – the Soviet model. “Climate change” is just a prop to get us to accept the revolution. The Left doesn’t care about global warming, it’s just a tool.
Italian communist Antonio Gramsci warned 80 years ago that seizing government and the means of production will always fail, due to cultural hegemony. Communists never get that, and continue to destroy civilizations.
Obama said, “We are the people we have been waiting for.” The right people to implement socialism. It always fails because the people didn’t implement it right, or, my favorite, as Venezuela descends into Hades, the Left declares, “Oh, that’s not real socialism.”
It isn’t about the people implementing it. Obama et al are wrong. It’s about the people it is being imposed upon. Unless they are culturally prepared for it (few, if any, are), the people will reject it, and the government will of necessity become totalitarian.
Roberts says, “We need to build our buildings differently, have more meat-free meals, look at how we move around with transportation and what energy we are using.”
The world’s reply is, “Nah. You are not in charge. We’re going to keep doing things the way we like.”
The only way to be “culturally prepared” for Communism (and Socialism for that matter) is to have a lobotomy.
That’s why it has failed and will always fail.
“We have about 12 years”.
Can’t wait for the pronouncement in 11 years time; ‘we have about one year’!
Warren, I think they’ll give us another 12 years (this game has been going on for over 2 decades).
My personal favorite is Britain’s goofy Prince Chuck telling the world (in roughly 2000) that it only had 6 months to save itself.
The only proper response (even from an American) is to wish Queen Elizabeth a VERY long and HEALTHY life.
I don’t recall anyone asking UN delegates to determine who has freedom, and who doesn’t. Last I checked that was a prerogative of national sovereignty. You would think this is what she should be an expert about, but she seems blissfully unaware of the concept:
And the great call goes out to confiscate money from the American taxpayer. That’s all this is.
Here’s a choice I make daily…ignore the fools with the sandwich boards telling me the world is going to end. I think for myself thank you!