The End of Big Green? The Guardian Praises Michael Moore’s Anti Renewables Flick “Planet of the Humans”

Guest essay by Eric Worrall

The Guardian even mentions nuclear energy in a vaguely positive light (unlike the Moore film).

Planet of the Humans review – contrarian eco-doc from the Michael Moore stable

4 out of 5 stars.   

Peter Bradshaw @PeterBradshaw1

Wed 22 Apr 2020 18.32 AEST
Last modified on Wed 22 Apr 2020 19.32 AEST

Jeff Gibbs’ film, produced by Michael Moore, takes a pop at green, liberal A-listers such as Al Gore – but doesn’t dare criticise Greta Thunberg

Gibbs has a cheeky habit of going backstage at music festivals that solemnly declare themselves to be using 100% renewable energy, only to find that the fancy array of solar panels behind the tent is enough to power a single bass guitar. The rest of the energy is provided by just plugging into the shameful old electricity grid, provided by fossil fuels. He sees it as symptomatic of the mainstream environmental movement, running on delusional piety.

All the green, liberal A-listers – Bill McKibben, Al Gore, Van Jones, Robert F Kennedy Jr – are attacked in this film as a pompous and complacent high-priest caste of the environmental movement, who are shilling for a fossil fuel industry that has sneakily taken them over. (Although it should be said that, for all his radical bravado, Gibbs does not dare criticise Thunberg.)

Gibbs doesn’t mention nuclear and – a little lamely, perhaps – has no clear lesson or moral, other than the need to take a fiercely critical look at the environmental establishment. Well, it’s always valuable to re-examine a sacred cow.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/apr/22/planet-of-the-humans-review-environment-michael-moore-jeff-gibbs

What is happening to the Guardian? The other day they praised seafront property development, now they’re praising a movie which trashes renewables.

Have greens secretly hated renewables all along, and suddenly feel able to talk about it? Or are they just softening us up, because they are about to spring something even worse on us?

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Klem
April 23, 2020 10:13 am

The company i work for has been pushed around by green groups and the MSM for some time now. Over the past few months management has decided that installing wind turbines at the work site will get them off our backs.

I advised against it because over the last number of months I’ve noticed the green tide is turning against wind turbines. They ignored my advice, partly because I didn’t have good evidence.

I do now.

Jantzi
Reply to  Klem
April 23, 2020 2:33 pm

If you need evidence find the article on Wattsupwiththat about Poland and the wind turbines being BANNED for their adverse health effects. Read the article and then find the comment by “Sommer and watch the video. Devastating to turbines.

Eric McCue
April 23, 2020 10:13 am

It still has an apocalyptic view of the state of the planet.

Quote ‘I don’t think the people in charge are near nervous enough’.

Quote ‘By not thinking about it, it stands a good chance of doing us in’

So, what would be the solution ? I suspect a substantial shut down of the modern world.

John the Econ
Reply to  Eric McCue
April 23, 2020 10:37 am

True. However, selling the masses on reverting to an 1820’s lifestyle will be much more difficult than selling them on higher taxes (on other people) to subsidize green boondoggles.

It will be interesting to see which way this goes.

Goldrider
Reply to  John the Econ
April 23, 2020 12:39 pm

People today aren’t NEARLY intelligent enough to live an “1820’s livestyle.” Not nearly tough enough, either, believe me! Read “Washington’s Crossing” to learn what our ancestors REALLY endured for their ideals! I’d be we haven’t 1/10th of 1% today who would or could endure that.

MarkG
Reply to  Goldrider
April 23, 2020 12:50 pm

The left also want to kill off 90% of the population, so to them this is a feature, not a bug.

Of course, most of the left will end up in the 90% who are unable to survive a 19th century lifestyle. 99% of the 10% who survive will be ‘Deplorables’.

Centre-leftist
Reply to  MarkG
April 23, 2020 3:47 pm

An Australian greenie model has reportedly called Covid a planet-saving gift from God.

It is unclear whether she would seek medical treatment for herself if needed (I write sarcastically).

Reply to  MarkG
April 23, 2020 5:21 pm

Well [bleep] most of them wouldn’t be able to handle life on working farm in the 20th century, let alone the 1820s.

Craig from Oz
Reply to  MarkG
April 23, 2020 7:52 pm

Models (the human kind) need to remember that if we wanted to hear them speak they would be voice actors.

They exist because we are willing to look at them.

kwinterkorn
Reply to  John the Econ
April 23, 2020 1:08 pm

Yep!

And the poverty-induced death toll and political instability would make what we’re going through with Covid-19 look like a minor event.

Keitho
Editor
Reply to  Eric McCue
April 23, 2020 10:42 am

There seemed to be a subtle message regarding the human population, reduce it.

I did find the information about “renewables” very useful.

Reply to  Keitho
April 23, 2020 11:15 am

Keitho

There was nothing subtle about the desire for population control in that documentary.

n.n
Reply to  Keitho
April 23, 2020 11:25 am

Planned population (PP) protocols and schemes were normalized with social progress. People and societies are evolving, but what is the fitness function?

Goldrider
Reply to  Eric McCue
April 23, 2020 12:37 pm

So, what would be the solution? Every Leftist on earth becomes an incel. Problem solved! 😉

MarkG
Reply to  Goldrider
April 23, 2020 12:51 pm

Most leftist men are already incels, so nothing new there.

Women only marry leftist men for their resources, not their bodies.

john harmsworth
Reply to  Eric McCue
April 23, 2020 3:47 pm

Sacrifice MIchael Moore to the volcano God. Should be lots for everybody to eat once he’s gone.

Flight Level
April 23, 2020 10:14 am

Meanwhile this guy is still a phenomenal retard, it took him that long to realize that the green utopias he supported and milted for so far paid dividends to his masters and peanuts to him.

One more delusional green. However I don’t count on a landslide effect. There’s too much free money on the stake and paychecks can be very efficient indoctrination textbook pages.

Mr.
Reply to  Flight Level
April 23, 2020 11:09 am

Yes, a more rational person who had been pointing out the implausibility of solar & wind for decades now would be too embarrassed to now come out with his belated realization of the realities at play on this subject.

But I did notice there were many commenters on the Guardian article who were rejecting the doco’s evidence and conclusions about the uselessness of wind & solar.

Dare we label such rusted-on renewable disciples as “deniers”?

Marty
Reply to  Flight Level
April 23, 2020 12:16 pm

The human capacity for self-delusion is simply amazing.

In 1919 Lincoln Steffens visited the new Soviet Union and famously said “I have seen the future and it works.” Man, was he ever wrong! Back in the 1960’s when I was in college there were students who thought Mao in China was a great man and my best friend in college told me that Castro in Cuba was the future. Tell that to the millions who died in Mao’s Cultural Revolution and the thousands who fled Cuba for Florida. And then we have people like Al Gore, Greta Turnberg and Michael Moore. They probably are very sincere. Just like Lincoln Steffens was probably very sincere.

In the unlikely event that I were ever to take up a cause, like for example “save the ardvarks”, I think I’d make damn sure that I knew what I was talking about first.

Sommer
Reply to  Marty
April 23, 2020 12:34 pm

“Tell that to the millions who died in Mao’s Cultural Revolution and the thousands who fled Cuba for Florida. And then we have people like Al Gore, Greta Turnberg and Michael Moore. They probably are very sincere. Just like Lincoln Steffens was probably very sincere.”

Could you please add AOC to that list, Marty?

https://www.facebook.com/JohnStossel/videos/vb.46675576620/652367732225333/?type=2&theater

Mr.
Reply to  Marty
April 23, 2020 1:10 pm

Marty, I’d grant that Thunberg and Moore might be sincere about their beliefs.

Gore – NO WAY!
A rank carpetbagger of the first order.

rg
Reply to  Mr.
April 23, 2020 4:20 pm

+1000
I concur!

Reply to  Mr.
April 25, 2020 11:35 am

In case you had any doubts, g here’s where th Billions to add to the MIllions Gore gets paid to promote j his own climate change protection racket. THAT”S the way the money goes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkar4jn3JWw&feature=youtu.be

This is the neatest explanation I have seen anywhere in the 4 years I have researched the climate side of this racket, having taken four years before that to establish the engineering reality that the renewables cure to the claimed problem was simply overpriced snake oil we are forced to buy by law, made by crooked politicians to enrich their lobbyists. Then it turns out CO2 is not significant in natural climate change either. You can’t make it up. THat’s their job.

Reply to  Marty
April 23, 2020 4:16 pm

I recall reading something to the effect that Steffens had that phrase in mind BEFORE he visited the workers’ paradise. Hence, I doubt his sincerity. (I wish I could remember the source.)

Rune
Reply to  Marty
April 24, 2020 1:18 am

I can’t tell if your spelling of “aardvarks” was intentional or not. 😀

Thomho
Reply to  Marty
April 26, 2020 4:17 am

Lenin dubbed them “useful idiots”

markl
April 23, 2020 10:15 am

So Moore has gone to stating the obvious that escapes the ecoloons. Let’s see how far he gets before they demonized him.

Klem
Reply to  markl
April 23, 2020 10:51 am

The left always eats their own.

Greg
April 23, 2020 10:16 am

Surprising to see the Graun attacking saintly figures like Gore and Kibben. They must be scared.

john harmsworth
Reply to  Greg
April 23, 2020 3:34 pm

It might be interesting to point out to the Guardian’s readers the many, many ways their other heroes have echoed these same maniac ideas. They pretend to support the poor and under advantaged and then push this economically disastrous nonsense off on them.

troe
April 23, 2020 10:17 am

“We are not idiots” Even the most glassy-eyed acolytes of millenarian cults sometimes feel the need to validate their basic intelligence to others. There are some great documentaries on Jonestown featuring long-time members who keep saying that they knew something was wrong all along. The Guardian is one of many propaganda outlets for the Climate Crises scam that gets that itch every so often. Still, they will continue to sell the green Kool-Aid just like they continued selling the red stuff long after it was proven sour.

kenji
Reply to  troe
April 23, 2020 10:52 am

The hidden message of this film? … it’s all “capitalsim’s fault”. See! LOOK at all those $$RICH individuals and corporations EXPLOITING ‘renewable” energy for personal gain! See! We need Socialism and Communism NOW!!

Here in CA … all the wildfire death and destruction has been laid on the doorstep of the PG&E ewwwwww Corporation. Corporate “GREED” caused the conflagrations, it has been concluded. “Green” Policies that drove every single decision by the quasi-public Board of PG&E and the PUBLIC Utilities Commission … are swept under the carpet. Just like this film sweeps all the “renewable” “green” energy nonsense under the carpet of “GREEDY” “green” capitalists.

Oh! and the other message in this film? Population control. Worldwide procreation controls. One child policies. Euthanasia … Death Panels. The ONLY way to “solve the problem” … they claim

Reply to  kenji
April 23, 2020 11:19 am

kenji

100% mate.

Scissor
Reply to  kenji
April 23, 2020 11:35 am

★★★★★

Reply to  kenji
April 23, 2020 4:49 pm

Capitalism is just individual free-market economic initiative propagated society-wide. As such, capitalism cannot exist without individualism. Freedom cannot exist without individualism.

The enmity toward capitalism is really an enmity toward individualism. Capitalism is just a stalking horse. Individualism is the true target.

I’ve written about individualism as the target in Progressivism is Hostile to Humanism.

Socialism is merely the self-delusional politics of reflexive collectivists. Reflexive collectivists yearn to submerge themselves into a mindlessly moralized society. To be slaves of a greater whole in other words, where thought need be no more than reaction. Socialism is merely their vehicle for that end.

The Romantic response to the Enlightenment is the attack of collectivists against an emergent individualism and the free societies individualists have engendered. Their innate and reflexive collectivism is the ground-substance of socialism.

In a way, one feels sorry for innate collectivists. They probably feel lost and confused in a society of free people, where law and behavior require thought and negotiation rather than obedience to a normative morality.

Too bad for them.

TC
April 23, 2020 10:18 am

The world economy is in the process of being crippled by the actions taken in response to CV19. As it happens, we were already on course to cripple the economy anyway via the idiotic green net zero carbon plans. We should now mothball those plans with immediate effect.

Rick C PE
Reply to  TC
April 23, 2020 11:46 am

TC: Mothballed implies being preserved for potential use in the future. Those plans need to be burned to ash, ground to a fine powder and scattered to the four winds. CO2 is unlikely to ever become an actual problem. While we may someday run out of economically viable fossil fuels, by then we will certainly have 4th, 5th or 6th generation nuclear fission and perhaps even viable fusion. Economic and environmentally sound applications for wind and solar exist, but they are very limited.

TC
Reply to  Rick C PE
April 23, 2020 1:14 pm

I chose “mothballed” with a view to not scaring the horses. Those of us who don’t buy into CAGW just need the passage of time to knock the whole thing on the head.

April 23, 2020 10:20 am

Nothing scarier than a climate activist with his back against the wall. If they see the renewable energy thing as BS, their only alternative is human depopulation. How will they propose to accomplish that?

I’ve spent the last 20 years around “alternative energy” projects and recognize several shown in the documentary. Viability of projects is often in the eye of the beholder and the local political scene. Some investors are easy to fool by stroking their idealism. I worked several around cement plants. Those guys are different. They go strictly on return on investment.

Besides, Al Gore is a dope.

Garland Lowe
Reply to  Citizen Smith
April 23, 2020 11:16 am

“their only alternative is human depopulation. How will they propose to accomplish that”
They will murder the deniers and unbelievers, in the name of saving mankind.

Jean Parisot
Reply to  Garland Lowe
April 23, 2020 11:39 am

Global Thermonuclear War, the Hing Kong varient

MarkG
Reply to  Citizen Smith
April 23, 2020 1:00 pm

“How will they propose to accomplish that?”

Could they lock everyone in their houses, ban them from buying seeds to grow their own food, and shut down the farms and meat-packing plants?

Just a thought.

F1nn
Reply to  MarkG
April 24, 2020 4:46 am

Forced vaccination is more human way to do it, and it´s easy to do behind corona-curtain. And we will happily accept it, because we are scared.

Goldrider
Reply to  F1nn
April 24, 2020 10:27 am

They’ll have to catch me first.

The medical profession’s “standard of care” has so little empirical evidence to support most practices that the average person would be APPALLED if they knew. How ’bout those BP pills that seem to be attracting COVID-19 like a magnet? But NOOOO, don’t stop taking them for a clear & present threat vs. a mostly theoretical future one, because Novartis’ $$ or something.

I’d rather be pulled down and eaten by WOLVES than be hospitalized.

Hal DeSaussure
Reply to  MarkG
April 24, 2020 4:57 am

Maybe they could somehow get the population to allow government to put in place shut down orders requiring everyone to stay indoors, close all but essential businesses, and bring the economy to a halt. Not sure how that would be accomplished but I am sure there is a way. ….

ColMosby
April 23, 2020 10:23 am

The fact that these people never seem aware of the revoutionary new nuclear designs, particularly molten salt small modular reactors that can burn either uranium or Thoriium (both of which will lastpractically forever),
is a clear indication that they are not serious when it comes to future energy sources.

Reply to  ColMosby
April 23, 2020 7:20 pm

Ya – speaking of revolutionary designs! Consider this validation report* of a device with 275 kW power output and a power density of 5 MW per Liter:

Report: https://tinyurl.com/yczwpv25
And the associated calorimetry test protocol: https://tinyurl.com/ybvjy5o2

(Now, this is post is going to draw a few ‘flies’, notably (most likely) MarkW for one … )
.
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* By Dr. Mark Nansteel, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Carl Friis-Hansen
April 23, 2020 10:28 am

Have greens secretly hated renewables all along, and suddenly feel able to talk about it? Or are they just softening us up, because they are about to spring something even worse on us?

The Greens are temporarily piggybacking on CoVid-19, which has put their agenda(21) 10% towards the final solution.

April 23, 2020 10:30 am

Fossil Fuels to the rescue. But we must do better
Natural gas can be consumed much more efficiently by industry and large commercial.
Coal and oil can be combusted with near zero CO2 emissions.
Fossil fuel power plants can with TLC last 60 to 80 years. Solar and wind have to be replaced 3 or 4 times in that same time frame. Where are the greatest CO2 savings?
Loved this movie. Finally the Truth comes out.

kenji
Reply to  Sid Abma
April 23, 2020 10:44 am

Sadly … the film only focused on one small forest decimation in Vermont. They should have shown before and after pictures of landscape after landscape after landscape utterly defiled by wind and solar plants. Shown dead birds of prey littering the killing fields of these giant wind contraptions.

And then shown the pristine seascape of John F Kennedy Jr’s waterfront home.

Gregory Woods
Reply to  kenji
April 23, 2020 12:08 pm

not to mention the devastation of palm oil plantations….

JEHILL
Reply to  kenji
April 23, 2020 2:42 pm

and followed by the before and after pictures Glacier disappearances in more temperate climates…

Roger Knights
Reply to  JEHILL
April 23, 2020 7:36 pm

“and followed by the before and after pictures Glacier disappearances in more temperate climates…”

… in many cases BEFORE 1950!

MarkW
Reply to  Sid Abma
April 23, 2020 11:56 am

Spending money to get rid of a gas that is so beneficial?
Only a total idiot would propose such a scheme.

F1nn
Reply to  MarkW
April 24, 2020 4:55 am

Yes, and overwhelming majority are total idiots. Many decades propaganda has shown its power, again.

Reply to  Sid Abma
April 23, 2020 12:38 pm

Coal and oil can be combusted with near zero CO2 emissions.

No, they can’t.

MarkW
Reply to  Pat Frank
April 23, 2020 1:12 pm

Sid’s been pushing a proprietary carbon capture scheme for months.
Still can’t find any investors.

Gerald Machnee
Reply to  Sid Abma
April 23, 2020 3:00 pm

**Coal and oil can be combusted with near zero CO2 emissions.**
No, maybe near zero pollution, but CO2 is good for us.

observa
April 23, 2020 10:30 am

“Have greens secretly hated renewables all along, and suddenly feel able to talk about it? Or are they just softening us up, because they are about to spring something even worse on us?”

Hmmm…get off the warming meme if coastal/esplanade RE prices aren’t following the plant food doomsday scenario and jump on the species extinction bandwagon particularly with the Rona out and about-
https://infotel.ca/newsitem/un-report-humans-accelerating-extinction-of-species/it61919
IPBES now but he was thick with the IPCC-
https://tyndall.ac.uk/people/robert-watson

observa
Reply to  observa
April 23, 2020 10:41 am

It’s all about humans exploiting wildlife and extinction of species and Covid is Gaia’s warning to you all about the coming dooming if you don’t repent-
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/humanitys-exploitation-of-wildlife-is-putting-us-all-at-risk/ar-BB12WpRM
…and climate change.

MarkW
April 23, 2020 10:31 am

No matter what it is, if it’s bad, the fossil fuel industry is somehow behind it.
Do they have any actual, like, evidence, to support their claim that the reason why the environmental movement has become ineffective is because it’s been taken over by the fossil fuel industry?
Or is it more likely that the environmental movement has become ineffective because it’s been taken over by communists?

April 23, 2020 10:34 am

What is happening to the Guardian?

I wonder about that as much as wonder what’s happening to the National Enquirer.

kenji
April 23, 2020 10:40 am

SCIENCE … real science had mocked these green schemes since DAY ONE. So, only now … 3-years past Obama’s “cleansing of the planet” do they acknowledge that the math was tainted … the truth buried? NEXT: the sudden realization that Elon Musk is less a “visionary” than an exploitative charlatan.

Who killed the electric car? Well … it wasn’t the coal power plant charging the car … that’s for sure.

They’re ALL Solyndra’s now …

Goldrider
Reply to  kenji
April 23, 2020 12:43 pm

“Who killed the electric car?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSpOjj4YD8c

WEEEE DOOOO! WEEEE DOOOO!

Like, prophecy maaan . . .

Scissor
April 23, 2020 10:56 am

Michael Moore carries a lot of weight in leftist circles (pun intended). Nevertheless, he’s shining light on the problem that renewables are nothing more than a delusion. At the very least, this will force some people to examine his claims about the delusion and some people will be enlightened.

Moore will still be wrong about most of his views, but this movie can be used as a tool against the leftist greens.

Reply to  Scissor
April 23, 2020 11:26 am

Scissor

You’re right up to a point.

But as has been pointed out, this ‘documentary’ was as much about evil Capitalism and population control as anything else.

Scissor
Reply to  HotScot
April 23, 2020 11:34 am

Yes, I agree with that.

Reply to  HotScot
April 23, 2020 7:03 pm

And that is fine as now these people have to break cover.
I still don’t understand Moore’s angle
He’s on board with Bernie and AOC and the GND
This directly attacks 90% of the face of GND and can only hurt Biden and the Dems this fall

Aside from the fact it’s all true, Moore claims the only thing of importance is getting rid of trump but this has to help him

Ideas?

Bill Powers
April 23, 2020 11:04 am

They already have sprung worse on us.

Its called pandemic lock down. Who needs a phony Climate Change argument from invisible CO2, when a simple little invisible virus will do. So much simpler and immediately scary so people will cower and shelter in place. The corona gonna get ya! They finally figured out a way to institute socialism practically overnight.

Sadly, for the officious left, gone are the days of the taxpayer funded per Diem vacations to exciting locations to promote doom and gloom. Now, when they whip up the next pandemic, they will have to order up netflix and stock up on popcorn and toilet paper.

Goldrider
Reply to  Bill Powers
April 23, 2020 12:47 pm

You forgot the “artisanal” Ice Cream . . .

Joe Adamus
Reply to  Bill Powers
April 23, 2020 2:11 pm

Patrick Moore, PhD Wattsupwiththat Aug 3, 2018
Some time ago it struck me that the majority of alleged environmental catastrophes and threats are invisible or very remote, thus making it virtually impossible for the average person to validate them through observation. Observations, along with replications of those observations, are the very foundation of the scientific method. Seeing is believing, and seeing the same result again and again under similar circumstances reinforces the belief. Is it possible that activist groups and the media choose to cite supposed catastrophes and threats that are invisible, very remote or both because the majority of people cannot verify them in person and therefore must rely on the activists, the media, and other third parties to tell them the truth?

n.n
April 23, 2020 11:22 am

People who are generally green, but without green incentives, aren’t so green about The Green Blight.

Ethan Brand
April 23, 2020 11:26 am

I wonder which of Moore’s houses he is sequestered in while the rest of us kill the planet….

“https://www.theloop.ca/inside-michael-moores-jaw-dropping-michigan-lake-house-yours-for-6-8m/”

🙂

Ethan Brand

Bill Rocks
April 23, 2020 11:28 am

Thanks for the link. I watched the entire film. Had plenty of time on a misty day during this virus time.

The film dumped on the largely fake and, or failed renewable energy industry as it has developed over recent decades.

Some topics I noted: The Ivanapah solar failure burns natural gas for hours every morning as has previously been discussed at WUWT. Broken mirrors littering the ground at Ivanapah solar site. A skid steer mulching 500 year-old yucca plants when the Ivanpah site was being cleared for construction at 0:39. “Environmental sand dunes” at a vacated historic former solar farm near Daggatt, CA.- It did not last long! A collage of mine site photos illustrating the energy and minerals needed to create wind, solar, electric things in contravention to their claimed sustainability and environmental virtues.

The film used several minutes to take a big shot at biomass energy. “Going green by burning trees.” at 1:01. “What if they themselves had become misguided?” 1:10. The film directly zinged Al Gore at 1:19. After that,

Portrayed McKibben to be an idiot. And so on. Maybe the sun will come out tomorrow.

commieBob
April 23, 2020 11:32 am

… but doesn’t dare criticise Greta Thunberg …

Clueless. The movie was done and in the can by the time Thunberg came along.

1 – The movie points out that renewable energy is a scam.
2 – The point of the movie is that we’re raping the Earth and have to cut way back or we’re doomed. We can’t delude ourselves into thinking renewable energy is going to let us continue our profligate lifestyle.

Malthus and Moore and Gibbs and Suzuki, etc., etc., etc. are all wrong. Because people are way smarter than coyotes and rabbits, people aren’t doomed to an existence of population booms and collapses.

The best way to take advantage of people’s intelligence is to make them prosperous enough that all their energy isn’t spent scrabbling just to get the next meal. That’s why the invention of cooking was such a game changer. We an do things other than spending our whole lives chewing leaves.

Civilization is amazing. People don’t value it near enough.

Scissor
Reply to  commieBob
April 23, 2020 11:37 am

Your comment deserves five stars. ★★★★★

Bill Rocks
Reply to  commieBob
April 23, 2020 11:45 am

Yes to all of your message.

RicDre
Reply to  commieBob
April 23, 2020 11:46 am

+1000

MarkG
Reply to  commieBob
April 23, 2020 12:58 pm

“Civilization is amazing. ”

It is. Until it turns into Mouse Utopia.

Which is where we are today.

Few of the SJWs and other low-lives who make our lives hell would have survived without civilization, and even fewer would find anyone eager to listen to them.

Civilization is created by competent, hard-working men. But it creates the conditions that allow SJWs and other low-lives to thrive. And they then destroy it.

That’s been the cycle for thousands of years now. Because everyone ignores the obvious warnings from history, because ‘it’s different this time.’

Janice Moore
Reply to  MarkG
April 23, 2020 3:08 pm

Well. If it is Mouse Utopia (assuming you meant that living conditions are excellent for mice), then (((LOOK OUT!!!!)))😲

–> it is CAT Utopia! Bwah, ha, ha, ha, haaaaaaa!😸😼

This comment was purely just for fun.

P.S. I am NOT a cat fan — DOGS RULE!🐕‍🦺🐕

MarkG
Reply to  Janice Moore
April 23, 2020 5:49 pm

Yes. A cat would have solved Mouse Utopia’s problems pretty quickly by removing the dysfunctional mice. At least in the early generations before the mice stopped breeding at all.

commieBob
Reply to  MarkG
April 23, 2020 3:38 pm

Machiavelli, famous for The Prince, also wrote The Discourses on Livy. link

The Discourses points out the advantages of republics over the other kinds of government extant at Machiavelli’s time or in previous history. The book is a font of great wisdom.

Machiavelli points out that, when a nation becomes effeminate, it is doomed.

We’ve been fed this unending diet of rights and freedoms and there’s something about that that’s so pathologically wrong and people are starving for the antidote and the antidote is truth and responsibility. It isn’t because that’s what you should do in someone’s “I know better than you what you should do” sense. It’s that that’s the secret to a meaningful life and without the meaningful life, all you have is suffering and nihilism and despair and self-contempt. That’s not good so it’s necessary for men to stand up and take responsibility. They all know that and are starving for that message. Jordan Peterson

It seems to be a surprise to young men that they should pick up the heaviest load they can bear and carry it. That’s what they want and need. It’s been beaten out of them by the radical feminists who pollute out educational system.

Every cycle comes to its peak and then starts to go the other way. I fervently hope we have passed peak SJW because, as you point out, our society’s survival is at stake.

Reply to  commieBob
April 23, 2020 9:22 pm

“The best way to take advantage of people’s intelligence is to make them prosperous enough that all their energy isn’t spent scrabbling just to get the next meal.” No, you are close but the answer is a bit further along. The key here is toilet paper. Not only because of the recent ‘TP crisis, which illustrates the level that it can distract, but because of a story a guy from Poland told me. He lived under the communist system. He explained that when you and your wife are laying in bed at night trying to figure out which store will have shit paper the next day, you don’t spend much time on anything else. So the obvious way to maintain a high functioning human intellect is to guarantee abundant shit paper.

n.n
April 23, 2020 11:44 am

To paraphrase The Guardian: there are too many wind turbines in the fields affecting environmental diversity.

n.n
April 23, 2020 11:45 am

I wonder if this is a reaction to a new relationship with China, which cuts short environmentalism’s out-of-sight and out-of-mind philosophy.

Janice Moore
April 23, 2020 11:45 am

The Formula (for….. well, you decide what for ….)

1. False assertion:

The conjecture about human CO2 emissions causing significant shifts in the climate zones of the earth is true.

Conclusion: fossil fuel consumption is bad.

2. False assertion:

People living as they are is destroying the planet — citing all kinds of unsupported, wildly inaccurate, “facts” such as:

(From the “Q & A” livestreamed yesterday on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBGcEK8FD3w with the films Exec. Producer, Moore, Director, Gibbs, and Producer, Zehner — from ~ 29:00, mostly Gibbs and more Gibbs and MORE GIBBS – Zehner gets to smile and nod sometimes and put in a tiny word edgewise — perhaps, Zehner got more in later, but by around 41:00, I had heard enough)

Gibbs:
(31:38) “97%** of all mammals are now humans, cows, and pets … 70% of birds are chickens … in the last 40 years, maybe half of all wildlife has died off … ”
(33:21) “… invent the sustainable human and the sustainable culture … ”
(40:37) “we [in the 1800’s] burned down all the trees in North America …”

**97 – Seriously. He used 97%. lol (And he wields “the hockey stick” like a champ around 39:00 or so — you can’t write this stuff. Heh.)

Conclusion: The world (especially the U.S.) uses way too much stuff and has way too many cows and chickens (i.e., meat).

GRAND CONCLUSION:

(1) We need fewer people AND (2) people must use less (“less is the new more,” Gibbs says with puzzling pride) land, water, fuel, anything — just less of all of it. And we need “to live closer together and share more.” (<– what does that last bit sound like, hm?)

WHAT TO DO? WHAT? TO? DO??

(sound of heavy footfalls in the hallway…. door opens… and in steps…. (((whoa!))) Algore (he doesn’t mind playing the fool or the knave (he really plays those well in the Moore-Gibbs film — just so he can make money)). To the rescue! With:

Beyond Meat.

https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/marc-morano/will-al-gore-be-first-fake-meat-billionaire
(Beyond Meat is holy and good because: meat raising uses too much water and land and also uses fossil fuels and causes “emissions” (eye roll))

“And that brings us back to…..

dough***, dough, dough, dough.” (that starts with “d” which rhymes with “c” and that stands for, ssshhhhhh….. CAPITALISM! lol — Uh, oh. Terrrrrouble in River City….)

D’OH!

cui bono

***”dough” means money (in American English 🙂 )

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Re: Ozzie Zehner — I think he is just a true believer being used (along with vegan people who won’t even allow for humane raising and use of animals for human consumption) He really believes ( that material consumption beyond subsistence (or about that level) is wrong). His sharp intellect and bold willingness to speak the truth are being used by the likes of Algore. Zehner isn’t one of the “bad guys.” Just a nice guy blinded by something — not sure what. Gibbs may also just be a much less intelligent, far less informed, Zehner ….. not sure about ol’ Gibbs at this point (sure about his intelligence and ignorance, just not about his motive)….

Janice Moore
Reply to  Janice Moore
April 23, 2020 11:54 am

[Yay! My comment appeared very quickly! So, here are the links, linked to it. 🙂 ]
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My comment just *poof* disappeared (into the auto-moderation) and I wanted to add these links to it (because too many links will put one into formal “moderation” which can last for HOURS): Hoping these links are not too far below my comment of about 11:45AM today:
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https://greenstarsproject.org/2019/04/14/beyond-meat-sustainability-ethics-lca-impact/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding-meat-and-dairy-is-single-biggest-way-to-reduce-your-impact-on-earth

Janice Moore
April 23, 2020 11:48 am

My comment just *poof* disappeared (into the auto-moderation) and I wanted to add these links to it (because too many links will put one into formal “moderation” which can last for HOURS): Hoping these links are not too far below my comment of about 11:45AM today:

https://greenstarsproject.org/2019/04/14/beyond-meat-sustainability-ethics-lca-impact/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding-meat-and-dairy-is-single-biggest-way-to-reduce-your-impact-on-earth

Janice Moore
Reply to  Janice Moore
April 23, 2020 12:05 pm

Uh, moderator? The above comment (11:48AM) is now just clutter… . Just FYI. 🙂

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