Climate Activists Aren’t Joking

Reposted from nofrakkingconsensus.com

Saving the planet: the all-purpose, never-ending justification for more taxes, control, and deprivation.

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Belgian philosopher Drieu Godefridi has a new book, short enough to be read over two evenings. The French-language edition is titled: L’écologisme, nouveau totalitarisme? which translates roughly as: Is Environmentalism the New Totalitarianism?

The English-language edition, newly available as a Kindle e-book as well as a paperback, doesn’t beat around the bush. It’s titled The Green Reich: Global Warming to the Green Tyranny.

Godefridi says we have good reason to be alarmed. Not by climate change, but by the endless, hazardous-to-humans measures that activists propose in response.

In order to prevent climate-induced economic harm sometime in the future, these people plan to devastate the economy now. They make no secret of their intent to shut down virtually all human activity, including travel and trade.

This, says Godefridi, makes environmentalism more “ambitious in its desire to subdue” humanity “than any previous doctrine.” Unlike Marxism, he writes,

Environmentalism does not intend to seize the means of production to increase and distribute the fruits in an equal manner. Environmentalism plans to seize the means of production to stop it. [bold added]

Climate activists believe human produced CO2 is endangering the planet. Since everything we do generates CO2 – including breathing – that makes us the enemy. In Godefridi’s words, the Soviet citizen

was tightly policed, oppressed, and materially limited when he was not being deported [to] the Gulag and killed. However, he was never considered…as a problem in himself. [bold added]

Long before the violence started, Germany’s Nazis were plainspoken about who was the enemy. They didn’t hide their intentions. ‘Never again,’ is meaningless, says Godefridi, if we refuse to see what’s happening in front of our noses.

Traditionally, international travel has been considered an economic, intellectual, even moral good. Go learn about other cultures. Don’t be so parochial.

Climate activists are cut from different cloth. Godefridi says it’s time to stop imagining they’re joking. UK activist journalist George Monbiot declares air travel “one of the most destructive activities on Earth.” His idea of a “socially just solution” involves the steady scaling down of the industry.

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Rather than flying from North America back to Europe in an airplane within hours, climate activist Greta Thunberg departed North America on Nov. 12 aboard a boat. Five days ago, she said she hopes to arrive in Portugal “sometime in early December.”

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Ordinary people can’t afford to take a month out of their lives to cross the ocean. But once climate activists are in charge, all other options will be banned.

A headline in the India Times declares Greta “The Role Model Everyone Needs.”

An employee of the David Suzuki Foundation, writing in Canada’s largest newspaper, says Greta is “an inspiration to millions of people for a multitude of reasons.”

The founder of Women Who Sail says Greta “is the great saint of our time.”

In every corner of every local, provincial, national, and international organization, Greta’s worldview is being promoted. Climate activists are working tirelessly, behind the scenes, to make it everyone’s reality.

These people don’t value human accomplishment or technology. They don’t value your time. Nor do they value your freedom. They’re extremists who are prepared to sacrifice everything ‘for the good of the planet.’

We need to read Godefridi’s book. And re-read it. Before it’s too late.


The Green Reich: Global warming to the Green Tyranny
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November 27, 2019 3:36 pm

This is a great post and book, the best I have seen on the subject.

Most commentators on this site talk of socialism, rent seekers etc. They are looking backwards.
What they don’t really fully understand what has and what is actually occurring. This is the most cohesive global momentum ever achieved so far on the march to the new world order, and it will continue to gain momentum despite any cooling that may occur. Facts are irrelevant.

Why is China quietly abolishing religion – because religious orders control the masses in a cult like manner. Up to one million in re-education camps. For the same reason why Henry number 8 abolished Catholics and Romes influence from England. Control by the King of his social and legal realm.

In the USA, is the saying God and Country ?? https://www.godandcountry.com/
Haven’t elections been historically decided by certain religious congregations – Billy Graham??

Climate Change is a Global Order or religion. Remind me again what the Popes position is.

And the people of the UK are procrastinating over Brexit.
Regards

Scissor
Reply to  Ozonebust
November 28, 2019 3:04 pm

Missionary?

John Bell
November 27, 2019 4:14 pm

So while the Left’s shrieking is getting ever louder and shriller, overall green expenditures are scaling back? We hit the peak and now things are shrinking for the green blob.

Flight Level
November 27, 2019 4:45 pm

The topmost-dog of AirFrance Mrs. Rigail (codename: Lady Wolverine) recognizes that “flight shame” will become a big problem for the industry. And declares her intentions to chew the bones of those who won’t adopt “eco piloting”.

In practice this would lead to even less “huh-huh” extra fuel reserves, compulsory retarded flap extension, mandatory big fat zero Cost Index (cost of time / cost of fuel), more pushback and taxi drama and less consideration for weather diversions.

Expect hard touchdowns as overcooked brake action and airframe fatigue count greener than reverse thrust and let’s all forget that there are moments where fuel availability actually matters.

Obviously when someone gets hurt, the aftermath would, in the absence of reachable defendants and exploitable flight recorders, conclude to pilot error.

November 27, 2019 5:59 pm

True environmentalists actually do things to improve the environment. Activists only demand that others do things they are unwilling to do themselves.
The actions of activists are always harmful and costly to someone and often to people in general.
I am generalizing but I cannot think of exceptions to the rule.

observa
Reply to  Rick
November 27, 2019 9:46 pm

No can’t think of any as we have expensive resort towns full of the elite actorvistas-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddu9i821EeE

Seriously it’s just a humble abode to bring up the kids in the same vein-
https://www.msn.com/en-au/entertainment/celebrity/seriously-its-not-that-big-chris-hemsworths-wife-elsa-pataky-hits-back-at-claims-their-dollar20million-byron-bay-mansion-looks-like-a-shopping-centre-and-insists-its-just-the-angle-of-photos/ar-BBXrB3O

As you were deplorables as it has lots of solar panels.

Tom Gelsthorpe
Reply to  Rick
November 28, 2019 4:31 am

Tenements and trolley cars for thee. . . Palaces and limousines for me.

French geographer
November 28, 2019 2:19 am

It’s true ! Climate activists aren’t joking ! Eco-terrorists are in action in France. Four farms were burnt, five days ago, in the south-east of my country, in Drôme department, killing 23 cows and ruining 3 farmers.
See : http://www.lafranceagricole.fr/actualites/elevage/fait-divers-vingt-trois-bovins-sont-morts-dans-un-incendie-criminel-1,10,4289454091.html [Title : 23 cattle are dead in a criminal fire] The two major farmers’ syndicates (FNSEA and Jeunes Agriculteurs) denounce extremists small groups and demand a police protection for their farms !
An here : http://www.lafranceagricole.fr/actualites/elevage/enquete-six-militants-antispecistes-arretes-apres-lincendie-dun-abattoir-1,10,4158554839.html [Title : Six antispecists activists arrested after the fire of a slaughterhouse] near Lyon, not far of Drôme, where, in the mountaneous and isolated part of this department, live many green, climate activists, “organic” producers coming from urban regions.
And in Bretagne, west of France, see the images, here : https://actu.fr/bretagne/callac_22025/autour-callac-une-serie-dincendies-dans-fermes-inquiete-population_29737018.html [ Title : A succession of fires in farms worries the population. Four fires took places these last weeks in farming around Callac. Farmers fear a criminal origin.]
Yesterday, farmers have demonstrated all around the main french cities with their tractors – 1000 around Paris – german farmers too and, last month, the dutchs, all denouncing the “agribashing” from the eco-activists.
We entered into the era of eco-fascism, just like Mussoloni’s black shirts in 1921, with their “manganello” (cosh) and castor oil.

Olen
November 28, 2019 7:48 am

Greta’s boat slowed down to avoid bad weather. How did they know how to navigate to avoid bad weather. Finger in the wind or modern technology.

Save the world by deprivation, and people go along with as long as they are not deprived.

Mankind has continuously improved life that would be set back to the stone age if these nut cases have their way. The destruction of entire industries could be picked up on the cheap by those determined to save us once again from going too far. In other words corruption and wealth on the cheap is behind this.