Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to “The Elders” Chair Mary Robinson, anyone who disagrees with her views on climate change is evil.
Climate change denial is evil, says Mary Robinson
Damian Carrington, Environment editor
Tue 26 Mar 2019 17.30 AEDTExclusive: chair of Elders group also says fossil fuel firms have lost their social licence
The denial of climate change is not just ignorant, but “malign and evil”, according to Mary Robinson, because it denies the human rights of the most vulnerable people on the planet.
The former UN high commissioner for human rights and special envoy for climate change also says fossil fuel companies have lost their social licence to explore for more coal, oil and gas and must switch to become part of the transition to clean energy.
Robinson will make the outspoken attack on Tuesday, in a speech to the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew in London, which has awarded her the Kew International Medal for her “integral work on climate justice”.
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“The evidence about the effects of climate change is incontrovertible, and the moral case for urgent action indisputable,” she will say.
“Climate change undermines the enjoyment of the full range of human rights – from the right to life, to food, to shelter and to health. It is an injustice that the people who have contributed least to the causes of the problem suffer the worst impacts of climate change.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/26/climate-change-denial-is-evil-says-mary-robinson
“The Elders” are a group of self important former United Nations leaders and other high profile international figures who seem to think you should do what you are told.
Mary Robinson stops short of saying what she thinks should be done about those “malign and evil” climate deniers, but I think we get the idea.
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Just ask all alarmists to do away with their cellphones as ‘scientists say’ they create a lot of CO2. Problem solved.
Let me see if I’ve got this right. Mary Robinson is on the board of an organization founded by Nelson Mandela to advance “peace, justice and human rights.” The country that Mandela liberated has compromised many of those rights since his death, but even so it’s better off than the countries around it, and now swamped with refugees from countries that have no rights to speak of. One consequence of sub-Saharan Africa’s condition is that hundreds of millions of people still cook over dung fires, live on dirt floors, and lack electricity. The consequence of that is that they die in droves from indoor air pollution, malnutrition and diseases that are rare in the rest of the world.
But if anyone thinks Africans should try to get gas, electricity, stoves, concrete, steel, and modern farming methods — all of which require fossil fuels — those people are “malign and evil.”
What would Ms. Robinson do with such hideous malefactors — burn them at the stake? Nope; can’t do that, it would leave too large a carbon footprint. We should thank the Lord for small favors, eh?
“…burn them at the stake? Nope; can’t do that, it would leave too large a carbon footprint.”
Not a problem, as each person is burned you have the government purchase the appropriate amount of CO2 offsets required to keep Gaia in balance.
Oops! I forgot about the carbon offsets. Thanks for straightening me out.
Who are they going to purchase offsets from? Al Gore? That’s who Al Gore bought his from.
The one thing I can’t tolerare is intolerance.
Woohoo! I am “Malign and Evil” now! Man, I just get better and better – or is that worse and worse?
…“The evidence about the effects of climate change is incontrovertible, and the moral case for urgent action indisputable,”…
The AGW evidence is thin as hell and I dispute it all the time…along with MOST of the science-educated people I know.
The only thing that is “indisputable” is how ignorant these self-important people are. I wonder if someone asked her what a “cosmic ray” was if she could answer the question? Or how much hydrogen there is in a molecule of Carbon Dioxide? Or how about we ban Dihydrogen Oxide since it is an even more powerful greenhouse gas than Carbon Dioxide is?
“Or how about we ban Dihydrogen Oxide since it is an even more powerful greenhouse gas than Carbon Dioxide is?”
Plus Dihydrogen Oxide has two evil Hydrogen atoms while Carbon Dioxide has only one evil Carbon atom so Dihydrogen Oxide is obviously twice as bad as Carbon Dioxide. We must stop the hydrogen pollution immediately before the world catches fire!
Isn’t it strange, though, how two very flammable elements (hydrogen and oxygen) can set off and support enormously destructive fires, but when combined as a single molecule become neutral and able to stop those very fires?
Hmmm…. I wonder if I’m on to something here. Maybe just build walls around major cities to keep the populations from expanding and let those outside the walls fend for themselves? Why not? Outsiders like me would have plenty of fresh, clean air, water and room to garden, in addition to plentiful supplies of foodstuffs in the winter, whereas the people in those walled-up cities would have stuff like tepid, brackish recycled water and soy biscuits. 🙂
I think it was “Dihydrogen MONoxide…”
Elders. Another term the loonies are trying to subvert. I have met elders in both traditional and “modern” societies who have that role because they have earned it. Some were illiterate (or claimed to be) but could not be fooled.
The other terms they have managed to corrupt: scientific method, sustainability, resilience, adaptation.
We are running out of synonyms.
I wonder how much money Mary will get………… if we all poney up for Carbon Tax………..
or the stupidest thing of all , Sequestration ?
Sequester it in your lungs, Mary.
You don’t get to the top of any UN poles unless you are pure Marxist progressive filth.
Hope this helps.
Fastyr mei.
“Judge not, that ye be not judged.” — Bible, KJV, Matthew 7:1
Fortunately for Mary Robinson, she was awarded the Kew International Medal for her “integral work on climate justice”, and did not have to rise to the standard of “work with integrity on climate understanding.”
A lot of people would have to work hard to rake up the type of air-miles Robinson does ever year, flying around the world telling others how their behaviour is ‘evil . But of course that is ‘different ‘ !
It is worth considering that Mary Robinson might consider this post a promotional which spreads her words to people like myself who have never heard of her. There is a fine line between deciding when to protest and when to ignore.
Climate science is just like the Russian collusion narrative. Not true but pushed very hard by some as a tool to push society in certain directions. It can last for years and years no matter how made up it is.
Bring up the Russian collusion comparison with “believers” when you communicate with them because this is finally something they might understand deep down.
‘The denial of climate change is not just ignorant, but “malign and evil”, according to Mary Robinson’
‘Climate change’ is undefined. Denial is an odd view of the undefined. Anyway, I can translate. ‘Climate change’ is orthodoxy. People must accept orthodoxy. Failure to accept it is evil.
‘It denies the human rights of the most vulnerable people on the planet.’
Too loopy to comment on.
I though I was just a simple denier. Turns out I am the real Nazi. Poor me!
Did the lady overlook the 14,000 additional cold related deaths which occur every winter since the cost of energy shot through the roof due to the high cost of renewables? We now have solid evidence of this effect from the USA. The large reduction in the cost of gas due to fracking, was marked by a notable reduction in cold related deaths.
Has anyone told Mary that the thermometers in the GHCN have been systematically moving further south for the past forty years? Even retirees know it’s warmer in that direction. Your precious data is so corrupted by such skullduggery as to render it completely unreliable. And yet, these morons continue to spout off as if they know anything.
Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina can deal with St Mary’s fossil fuel phobia better than anyone:
A popular Irish radio presenter often uses the expression “horse manure.” I would not use these words to describe the opinions of Mary Robinson who has served as President of Ireland. However, when I consider the hogwash she has spouted on certain subjects – outside of Irish law – that I am far more familiar with then her, I recognize a similar kind of ignorance of certain fundamentals as in her climate opinions.
Malign and Evil? This sounds increasingly like some cult vocabulary.
The funny part is that no informed person would deny climate changes…
“Former UN Officials”
I haven’t looked this list up; but I will take a wild guess that Nikki Haley is not among the membership.
3 BILLION people in the world (40%of the total population) live on less than $2.5/day ($912/year).
Loony Leftists who deny the world’s abject poor people access to cheap fossil fuels condemn them to live in counties with no possibility of developing: an electrical grid, sewage networks, water works, paved roads, mechanized agriculture, heavy-light industry, access to advanced hospitals, formal education, etc.
It’s loony Leftists who are “malign and evil” for perpetuating abject poverty.
Winner!
To be fair. I think those who disagree with me regarding the horrors of socialism are “malign and evil”.
Exactly. The resistance is to the one-world, totalitarian government favored by Mary Robinson. It is “malign and evil” to not accept it. The nebulous ‘climate change’ is a mere prop to get people to accept it.
Bolton, Pompeo likely agree with you, so that makes them saints as they dilly dally on a Venezuelan putsh?
It really is fascinating the lies that you eagerly believe.
So long as either the US, bankers or jews are the bad guys.
So I guess that makes jewish-american bankers the ultimate evil in bonbon’s anti-semitic world. Must be tough living a life so filled with hate.
“Malign and Evil”
Certainly forcing third world countries to stay poor and die of heat waves, floods, indoor air pollution, and no electricity fits the definition of Malign and Evil.
Third world countries are actively working hard to electrify, pave roads, build dams where needed and other “modern” coveniences” the developed world Mary Robinson lives in.
If there ever is a counter revolution by the so-far silent majority, UN apparatchiks will be among the first groups to be pulled from their high horses & sent off for re-education.
I see your elder and raise you an elder. Mary, you have no authority over anything or anyone with your made up titless and my chair is much more powerful because it is real and useful. So piss off!!
“…and the moral case for urgent action indisputable.”
Yeah, what does the BUSINESS CASE look like?