When in danger,
When in doubt,
Run in circles
Scream and shout!
Anonymous U.S. military saying, e.g. Infantry Journal, Vol. 35, (1929), p. 369.
The whole Climate Change hysteria is a useful example of a tactic as old as politics. Gin up an immense scare over a fake problem and arrive at a “solution” which will accomplish goals that have absolutely nothing to do with the fake problem. In regard to Climate Change, the fake problem is Climate Change, since the climate is always changing and man’s role in it is dwarfed by the natural forces, still very imperfectly understood by Science, that govern climate. The solution to the fake problem is increasing government control over the economy, a solution to warm the cockles of Leftist hearts everywhere, and an increase in taxes to fund ever more government control over everything. The weakness of all of this is, of course, the evidence that anything we could do to reverse global warming would have any measurable impact is almost nil, especially when consideration is given to the fact that most of the world sees through this transparent con game, and the crusade against Climate Change is largely an obsession of Western elites. That Pope Francis is one of the strongest advocates of this global sting, will come as no shock to Catholics paying attention since 2013.
When it comes to most things that men set out to do in this Vale of Tears, especially in an atmosphere of presumed, not proven, crisis, the ancient inquiry Cui Bono? is always a good question to ask first.
Watched this video the other day myself. It’s a good one. I also recommend this lecture by Jim Steele (which I’ve compiled into a playlist) who points out that most supposed problems of climate seem to be easily fixed local issues.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5oOQjuMV9kf2aROL85HNGXeCm8gBhssX
Something else that comes to mind: I read once that when global cooling was the scare in the 70s, someone proposed the idea that we should get more CO2 into the atmo. If we assume the premises are true, had everyone listened to that guy back then, we would be in far worse shape today. So what assurance do we have that listening to environmentalists today, won’t land us in worse shape tomorrow?
Oh right.
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/aug/10/electric-cars-big-battery-waste-problem-lithium-recycling
Tax dollars belong to the taxpayer even as our administration administers the moeny. Yes, Obama we did build that, the roads, the bridges, the hospitals, the public schools and universities,. Yes, Obama we did build that. The taxes are ours. Where is our vote on climate change?, on abortion?, on prayer ban? Taxation without representation is unconstitutional.
Yes, Obama, we did build that and it belongs to us, “We, the people…”
Stampeding the prey off a cliff is a time-honored hunting method.
…kinda hard on the prey, though.
So instead of playing whack-a-mole for four years, Trump decided to stampede the deep-state off a cliff?
Now that’s what I call real stable genius!
As always, the Bard of Baltimore does as good a job as any:
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” – HL Mencken
Imaginary problems are the best for political purposes. Since nothing can be proven there is no way to explain them away. Doomsday always sells, just like sex. Thus we should expect climate change hysteria to be with us for a long time.
After all, when God no longer exists we can’t expect folks to believe in nothing. And since the hierarchy of the Catholic Church has joined the hysteria, we could conclude they no longer believe in God either.