Guest essay by Eric Worrall
As Michael Moore extends free viewing time for his blockbuster “Planet of the Humans” for another month, George Monbiot has launched a savage attack against Moore’s film, accusing Moore of perpetuating racist colonialist tropes.
Some Monbiot quotes;
“The only concrete proposal in your film was that there should be a mass die-off”
“Population growth is what people reach for when they don’t want to face structural and systemic problems, problems such as capitalism. Population growth is what people reach for when they want to kick down, not kick up.”
“What we see is a phenomenon of comparatively wealthy white people saying we’re not the problem, our consumption growth isn’t the issue, its those people breeding, they are the problem. This claims is inherently racist, rich white people blaming poor brown people for an environmental problem which is mainly created by rich white people. This emerges from a very long standing discourse, a discourse which really arose from colonialism, and was used as one of the justifications for colonialism. …”
Strong words from Monbiot. In my opinion what we are seeing is utter desperation in the face of Moore’s catastrophic exposure of the green failure to deliver a viable alternative to fossil fuel.
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“phenomenon of comparatively wealthy white people”
If the wealth of white people bothers him so much, he’s free to give up as much of his wealth as he wants.
Lefty do-gooders like Moonbat are the meanest, least-charitable people you’ll ever meet.
So then, the real goal from the solution of climate change must be to lower white people’s standard of living in free developed countries.
That’s what I get from Monbiot’s statements…
What about all the comparatively wealthy brown people?
Is he excluding them? That’d be racist….
His head might finally explode.
“What we see is a phenomenon of comparatively wealthy white people saying …” etc.
What we see is a phenomenon of comparatively wealthy people like Monbiot in the First World lecturing the other 80% that they must not develop their economies to the same level as they themselves enjoy.
Monbiot, clearly refused to look at the issues raised in the Planet of the Humans film, and made up his own version of what the film was all about.
Yes the film talked about population being an issue, but it was not the only issue the film raised, and was in fact a distant second order issue, to what made up the bulk of the film.
The bulk message of the film was Environmentalist policies are ineffective and are not any solution to the needs of the world. The bulk message was environmentalists were frauds pushing a lie and happy to do so because it made them rich.
The clincher was the juxtaposition of Gore and Bull. Two men working together to get rich, so aptly named and so perfectly representative of the whole fraudulent Green culture.
Monbiot has no answer to the points actually raised in the film so he does what he is famous for doing, he makes up his own version of the what the story is about. He then sets about knocking down his own straw men he created.
Monbiot writes for the Guardian, that is basically all you need to know about him and his complete lack of veracity.
Not only does he make up his own versions – he airs them well away from any.. seriously – any possibility of a challenge. He is an accomplished ambush artist in cahoots with his BBC chums.
I know that’s swerving engaging with what he’s saying – but 90+ % of the time his ideas are initially emitted in the rear seating part of his trousers and should have a flash photography style warning prepended when published.
Are you saying… be careful not to light George’s farts?
As a a professional flatulist George must abide by OSHA standards in the handling of flammable gas I presume.
A bit of Green on Green action makes a refreshing change in climate la-la land.
As others have noted the climate catastrophist theological catechism is policed with gusto by those who see themselves as preeminent arbiters of belief – pouncing on heresy is part of he job.
Moonbat can believe what he likes – in that, he isn’t different from say Jehovah’s Witnesses – where I take issue is his assertions that the rest of us must obey and the way that that’s pumped out by his chums at The Guardian and BBC.
Australian’s are not always polite, from TomO’s comment it could be taken that Monbiot was talking through his arse. Sorry MOD.
Poor George, delusional as ever. Seems to think Moore will care that he doesn’t love him anymore. Still, good to see his mum won’t let him play in the garden without his coat on, even on what appears to be a nice warm spring day. “Don’t go out without your coat, Georgie, you never know when it might turn chilly”
The only concrete alternative to fossil fuels is nulcear power. Even “Boiling Oceans” Hansen recognizes this fact.
Monbiot a guilt ridden rich whiteman doing his utmost to remain a guilt ridden rich whiteman.
I would have some respect for him if he donated everything he had to the poor africans and topped himself for the sake of sustainability, but he won’t he will still pursue his parasitical life to its very end pissing and whining about racist rich white people.
Dangerous White trash that could lead by example but wont.
Monbiot is free to produce his own video about his view on, of, over the world instead of ranting about Moores view on “clean green agenda” that Monbiot isnt even able to understand.
“problems such as capitalism.”
Nice bit of honesty there, Moonbat. Stick to your truth and let’s hear no more about CO2 and climate change.
Yet he’s not moving to North Korea…
Monbiot really believes we have “trashed the planet”. If so, I love trash.
“My generation trashed the planet. So I salute the children striking back”
“The disasters I feared my grandchildren would see in their old age are happening already: insect populations collapsing, mass extinction, wildfires, droughts, heatwaves, floods. This is the world we have bequeathed to you. Yours is among the first of the unborn generations we failed to consider as our consumption rocketed.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/15/planet-children-protest-climate-change-speech
George missed out tropical storms. He never was the full shilling.
This is what happens when the climate predictions fail (Warming, polar bears, Arctic sea ice), and then the promised green solutions also fail. At some point, things have to get ugly because of all the internal contradictions. That point is now.
Grossly oversensitive CMIP6 models. No SLR acceleration. Failed green energy ‘solutions’ now on three fronts: direct cost, indirect intermittency cost, environment. Moonbat is having a very hard time of it now, since his past views are indelibly on record. The first scientific battle of the internet era is now not going well now for the Warmunists.
Climate predictions never fail. The time limit just expands a bit further, then a bit more and then ……..
“This is what happens when the climate predictions fail (Warming, polar bears, Arctic sea ice), and then the promised green solutions also fail. At some point, things have to get ugly because of all the internal contradictions. That point is now.”
EXACTLY! I have been waiting for this moment for years. Popcorn time.
Yesterday, both Antarctic and Arctic sea ice were second highest for that date of the past five years. Record low summer minima were eight years ago in the Arctic and three in the Antarctic (following two freak weather events in the super El Nino 2016).
Moonbat was also absolutely convinced that snow in Britain was a thing of the past.
Looks like a nice green plastic garden chair that he’s sitting on……….
This is a good explanation why AGW is a crock.
“Mathematics Of Heat Capacity
There Is No Significant Heat To Global Warming
If all 0.7°C heating said to be caused by humans went into the oceans, the increase would be 0.0007°C, and none would be left in the air.”
“Air has no heat capacity. It is mathematically impossible for claimed global warming to have the slightest effect upon ocean temperatures or ice sheets, because air holds almost no heat.
The total mass of the oceans is 262 times the mass of the atmosphere. A gram of sea water has 3.84 times as much heat capacity as a gram of the atmosphere. Combined, it takes 1006 times as much heat to raise the temperature of the oceans 1°C as to increase atmospheric temperature 1°C.
So, if the air temperature has increased 0.7°C, as claimed, that amount of heat could only increase ocean temperatures by 0.0007°C. Even the top 100 meters of the ocean (2.7%) would only be 0.025°C warmer, if all atmospheric heating said to be caused by global warming went into it.”
It then does the arithmetic.
https://nov79.com/math.html
I knew that Monbiot totally supported the “Climate emergency” But Jesus by his comments he is nothing but a total marxist or a communist. Oh and Moore is spot on solar, wind and bio are total expensive scams.
No problem = no solution.
Perceived problem = Send me money
problems such as capitalism
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Pretty much says it all. Moonbat and Karl Marx to the rescue. So long as freedom isn’t important to you. So long as you ignore your ancestors that fought and died to win the freedoms you now enjoy. Moonbat would give this all away without a wimper.
When you have to rely on yet another cry of “racism” in lieu of an actual argument, you’re just reiterating the fact that you have no argument.
*faf solutions*… Nobody’s provided us with a scientific proof of the underlaying concern. Its all badly polluted linear progressions of anecdotal cluster-pumps that contradict actual collected data.
It would be far less expensive if Monbiot were sent to a top notch psychiatrist for intense therapy than to destroy the world economy for Monbiot’s hallucinations.
Joey
Top notch psychiatrist? Isn’t that an oxymoron?
” … systemic problems, problems such as capitalism. ”
Anyone who has this opinion should have their ideas dismissed with prejudice. Capitalism is the only system that both works and is fair. It’s not the problem, but is the best solution to acheive equal opportunity and overall fairness. Socialism implements fake fairness by bringing everyone down to the same low level preventing all but the elite to reach higher levels of prosperity. Free market capitalism allows anyone to achieve high levls of prosperity without taking away from anyone else. Even as the distance between the top and bottom grows larger, the average is much higher while the bottom rises faster as owing to the higher growth enabled by capitalism.
It is ironic to see Monbiot in a thick insulated jacket complaining about Global Warming/Climate Change. If he realized that CO2 is promulgated solely as a fake cause of a non-existent problem he might not have to fall back on racist slurs against Michael Moore.
Monbiot cannot argue rationally against Moore and simply becomes angry that Moore has let the Leftists’ cat out of the bag.
Hilarious isn’t it – like the global warming protest in the snow scene in “The Day After tomorrow”. From what I remember of living in Wales those kinds of jackets have to be dry cleaned using “ozone destroying” chlorinated hydrocarbon based solvents.
I was wrong sorry – you can’t dry-clean nylon, it dissolves if you try. Dry cleaning fluid is a plastic solvent.
Lefties often get angry when discussing politics, even when arguing among themselves. The only reason anyone would get angry when discussing subjective issues like politics is that they know they have the weaker position while angry self righteous indignation makes them feel better about themselves.
“Lefties often get angry when discussing politics”
Almost always, from my experience. 🙂
Climate change alarmists are the racists. Take a look at any photo of a climate change protest. There are virtually no people of colour. In fact, the vast majority are old hippies and their grand kids; people who do not need to work.
I’ve never heard Jesse Jackson rail about climate change. I have heard him criticize high energy prices associated with renewables, because it disproportionately hurts low income people.
Cheap energy is the single greatest thing that lifts people out of poverty. Yet these fat, rich white people have no issue denying that to third world countries.
Climate alarmism is the go-to issue for the wealthy, chattering classes. They are the only ones who won’t be hurt by their insensitive policies.
I’m actually saddened this hasn’t become a bigger talking point. Climate alarmism is the bastion of virtue signalling, white, rich people who demand their pet projects be foisted on people who cannot afford it.
Monbiot’s assertions are completely false.
Population growth is a problem in the developing countries and almost all population increase in the “capitalist” developed countries is from immigration from the overpopulated developing countries. The combined carbon emissions in the capitalist developed countries are the same today as in 1980, meaning all the increase in emissions since 1980 is from the developing countries, which make up 2/3 of all emissions and rising. Not surprisingly, the developing countries have no binding targets under any climate agreement and therefore will continue to increase their emissions unabated, whilst the climate protest brigade ignore this elephant and only focus on the capitalist countries that are no longer causing the problem – if you believe it is a problem.
Ignoring the fact that we did not cause the CO2 rise and the CO2 rise did not cause the temperature rise.
Those pushing CAGW, argued that ‘Green’ energy …. Was so good, it did not matter if there was or was not a CAGW problem.
Green Energy is good for the earth. Ha, Ha.
Gibbs and Moore made the film because ‘green’ energy causes more damage, in reality, than the ‘do nothing’ case and it does not result in significant CO2 reductions if the energy to build and construct the green things (power lines and cutting down trees to make power right away, and to clear land for wind farms and such is commonly ignored) and grid inefficiency are taken into account.
This is a summary of some of the facts quoted in the film.
+ the documentary depants the ubiquitous memes/reports of how “Germany gets its energy from renewables.”
It trots out footage of a series of the top misleaders stating one after the other: “Germany gets 30% from renewables,” “40%,” “50%,” “60%”,…
The reality is that Germany gets just 3.5% of all its renewable energy from solar and wind combined.
A whopping 70% of what passes for “Green” energy in Germany comes from Biomass – grinding up trees in the Amazon and the US Southeast and shipping them to Europe where Germany (and Great Britain) burns them for electrons and get Carbon Credits for doing so!;
+ the other part of the Germany myth is that “Germany gets off coal…” The reality here is that Germany gets 37% of its energy from coal and is even trying to level one of its last intact forests to get at the coal underneath. The only thing currently stopping the destruction of the 12,000-year-old Hambach Forest is mass protests;
+ the top beneficiaries of Biomass are, of course, Big Timber giants. The Koch brothers, again, own Georgia-Pacific, the second largest stump creator in the world after Weyerhaeuser. G-P’s two mills in Oregon are the state’s #4 and #5 carbon polluters, as well.
The Green retards like Monbiot did it to themselves by rejecting emission-free nuclear power. Even the godfather of climate change James Hansen understands that failure by the idiots like Montbiot. When the Leftists lies are so blatant and obvious, even people within their ranks will see the hypocrisy and call it out as Moore has done.
That said, I love Liberal tears. Lots more to come.
To be fair Monbiot has actually said some nice things about nuclear, copped some flack for it.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/mar/21/pro-nuclear-japan-fukushima
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/28/arrested-myself-supporting-nuclear-power-george-monbiot
In addition to the WUWT comment that Monbiot is wearing what appears to be a nylon jacket, he is also obviously wearing eyeglasses.
Monbiot appears to be both knowledge-blind and thinking-blind to the facts that it was largely “comparatively wealthy white people” (his term, not mine) that invented and developed nylon and clear glass/plastic eyeglasses, with “capitalism” being fundamental to the widespread, low-cost manufacturing and distribution of such throughout the world. Ditto for many, many other inventions/products that have eased the burdens, and raised the living standards, of the vast majority of people around the planet.
Wallace Carothers, an American chemist, is credited with inventing nylon while working for DuPont.
Salvino D’Armate probably invented eyeglasses in around 1285, though various sources suggest an earlier origin. He shared the invention of his new device with Allesandro della Spina, an Italian monk, who made it public and is often credited with inventing eyeglasses. — source: http://www.glasseshistory.com/glasses-inventor/who-invented-glasses/
Monbiot citing “inherently racist, rich white people” as being the basis for the world’s environmental problems, without acknowledging consumerism at all economic levels and by all races, is farcical. He meets all qualifications for being a true hypocrite.