Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Tim Flannery having trouble explaining to his son why the world is about to end from climate change, and expressing understanding for the perpetrators of the eco-terror crimes of the future.
We need to talk to our kids about the climate crisis. But courage fails me when I look at my son
Tim Flannery
Wed 4 Nov 2020 03.30 AEDTBeing a bearer of bad news is never easy. I’ve been writing and talking about climate change for decades now. Constant exposure hardens one to even the most horrific reality, and I’ve coped by acting like a jolly hangman – or at least not giving in publicly to the helplessness I sometimes feel as I relate the latest findings.
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The group of emerging leaders I spoke to included a young executive from the fossil fuel industry. During the discussion that followed, he commented that most of the younger people in his industry, himself included, felt as I did about the emerging climate crisis. But while some have left to establish renewable energy companies, many more have stayed on, regardless of their personal feelings. Changing one’s career, especially if you’ve been successful, is not easy. Perhaps those who remain fear that they will plunge their families into poverty if they try to re-skill and seek work elsewhere.
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I know exactly how he felt. When I was climate commissioner, my older two children were teenagers. On several occasions when I was enjoying a weekend in the city with them, people shouted at me, “F– off Mr Carbon Tax”, and other abusive things. I could say nothing to the abusers, who were itching for a fight. And the embarrassment and hurt on the faces of my kids still haunts me. As they grew older, they came to understand that those who screamed at me were ignorant and scared. But I didn’t do a very good job, at the time, of talking with them about the reasons for the abuse.
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Our children carry the lessons learned in childhood far into the future. Uli Edel’s 2009 film The Baader Meinhoff Complex documents the bombings, bank robberies and killings that were carried out by radical gangs in Germany in the 1970s and 80s. Based on detailed evidence, it makes the case that radicalised youth was a response to the unacknowledged Nazi past of their parents’ generation. The Baader Meinhoff gang grew up in a world where prominent Nazis remained in positions of high authority. They acted as they did because they felt there had been no justice – no reckoning for the horrific acts their parents had been part of.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/04/we-need-to-talk-to-our-kids-about-the-climate-crisis-but-courage-fails-me-when-i-look-at-my-son
Tim Flannery wears clothes which appear to be mass produced synthetics, wears plastic sunglasses, and likely drives or rides in the product of a high tech fossil fuel civilisation. When he travels long distance I doubt he rides on a climate friendly donkey.
In my opinion, Flannery and his climate hypocrisy are as likely as anyone else to be held “accountable”, by any unhinged eco-terrorists he and his fellow travellers inspire with their apocalyptic nonsense.
Curiously the Grauniad resurrects the RAF, Red Army Faction terrorists, while AntiFa and BLM burn down cities in the US.
Bettina Röhl, the daughter of the former RAF “heroine” Ulrike Meinhof, and a journalist herself, accused the filmmakers of glorifying psychopath Andreas Baader: “Finally, he got what he always wanted. He became in a posthumous manner the hero of an action film.”
Maybe Flannery wants an Ahnold action film role? To impress the grown up kids?
Gleichschaltung!
In English this translates to “coordination”. That is what the bureaucrats in Nazi Germany in the 1930s imposed. This was enforcing regulations at all levels to compel the populace to bring forward the “Third Reich”. Everywhere, universities, government, grade schools, media, petty bureaucrats, chanted the goals of this New Deal. People who were not conforming were attacked by the SA (“Brownshirts”), and beaten up if they did not give the Nazi salute. many were imprisoned under “protective custody”, some permanently disappeared.
After a short while, no enforcement was necessary. This was called “Selbstgleichschaltung” or “self-coordination.” The vast majority of citizens willingly became little bureaucrats, ratting out their neighbors, marching in the streets with hands held high. If someone did not face the parades, the brownshirts assaulted them immediately.
The desired state of fear and confusion and chaos (Yes the regime literally named this as the main goal), had been reached, and the rest we all know.
“bubbagyro November 4, 2020 at 10:02 am”
That is exactly what is happening in the UK right now.
Damn ! You’ve just described Melbourne COVID-19 lockdown operation to the tee !
Yes, exactly, all driven by Chairman Dan who has sold out Victorians to the Chinese. I am glad the NSW Premier hasn’t stooped as low, but she wasn’t far off TBH.
“If someone did not face the parades, the brownshirts assaulted them immediately.”
This reminds me of the picture I saw once that was taken in Nazi Germany during Hitler’s reign and the picture showed a huge crowd of people giving Hitler the Nazi Salute, all except one man, who stood right in the middle of the crowd and refused to raise his arm to Hitler.
I don’t know the fate of the man. He probably didn’t fare too well.
Force your children to live a pre-industrial existence. They’ll soon get it.
Flannery continually maintaining his position with regards to dams and that the rain that does fall will not fill them places him firmly in the realm of the delusional.
The new Nazi’s aren’t just eco.
Are his children that far gone that he is already making excuses for them … when they go off the rails?
It’s hard to think about his poor son having someone like Flannery as a father….