Things NASA climate scientists say:

A man living off the fruits of capitalism–Jet Propulsion Labs– funded by taxpaying capitalists complaining of the evils of capitalists? I always ask the Socialism lovers I encounter one question–name one product produced or developed by a socialist country that the world has found necessary or even desirable over the past 100 years, with the possible exception of Rubik’s Cube? And that came from the slackest socialist country, Hungary.

There used to be a simple rejoinder for people who proposed radical societal sacrifices.

“You first.”

Of course, they never volunteer. The wealthier preachers see no irony in their travels by private jet to self-congratulatory conferences around the world. They live in multi-million-dollar oceanfront mansions that would soon include a first-floor master swimming pool if their predictions of climageddon were correct.

I don’t get the sense they inspire anyone. To be successful at religion (and being an atheist, none of this crap works for me anyway), one has to walk the talk in order to inspire. So it has to be indoctrination.

And mass indoctrination leads to a lack of recognition of individual rights, as we’re starting to see in the western world. These periods are always punctuated by war, because when you’ve indoctrinated the people, you have to blame outside influences for all the problems in your world in order to maintain power.

I worry a lot about the next world war. We are in a time that looks a lot like Wilson’s 1910s. China and Russia are openly talking about first strike. And our government’s answer is to concede that we cannot live without their oil and metals. With that power, they demand our subservience, one way or another.

And there’s nothing we can do, because our children are indoctrinated and know nothing about history.

There are two fairly reliable ways to meet minimum needs in first world countries:
1/ Set up a small subsistence farm in a low cost area
2/ Unemployment benefits / social welfare

Both of these seem to be defined as “poverty”

What a shame – Dr Kalmus must be so close to understanding ‘why the blip’. Hint: what during WWII could possibly be reducing stratocumulus coverage of the oceans? Further hint? See WWII.

JF

I find many of these statements not so wrong.
for instance I d’ also prefer a world without cars, but I need to move nad therefore I need cars. But I find that people driving 300m (yes I wrote three hundred meter) to the supermarket, or families with 4 adults (parents and 2 adult children) and 4 cars render the presence of cars more difficult to bear.

I also find that capitalism is if not moderated somehow very negative. In the USA you have the worst rate of poverty with a lot of homeless that we do not see in Europe where or capitalism has been moderated by state intervention.

maximising profit leads to an unbearable world: for instance, let’s take an industry that suddenly moves 300km and forces the employees either to move with it or drive to work on Monday and back home on Friday evening.

So it’s not all wrong that he said.