Reality is so cruel to climate wish fairies. | Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay
By Jo Nova
Left climate mob admits they might need to be more friendly
We know a movement is on the way down when they start to analyze what is going wrong.
Faced with the Worst Possible Outcome (Trump is still the President), one corner of the climate zealot world is starting to wonder if bundling The Climate Cause in with the Femo-Gay-Lezbian-Gaza-Project as an all or nothing package might be counterproductive. There is even awareness that they are supposed to be the compassionate ones.
Wait til they find out they manipulate, coerce and bully teenage girls and scare toddlers…
To motivate their team, they stoke their worst possible fear, and what’s worse than the climate apocalypse — well, it’s when voters choose a right wing government.
Without pluralism within the climate movement, we risk handing the future to the far right
…the two of us share a growing concern about the direction of the climate movement. A project that ought to be broad, open and compassionate has come to be dominated by a narrow set of ideological demands which leave little room for genuine diversity of political perspective. Increasingly, participation in the climate movement has come with an ideological entry fee—where new participants must adhere to specific views beyond climate issues.
Those who want to participate are expected to accept a “package deal” of positions on issues such as race, gender and social justice.
They even call it ideological gatekeeping, and then describe how the cancel culture begins.
“…members were often asked to adopt the slogan “No climate justice without racial justice,” which, in practice, meant aligning with the Black Lives Matter (BLM)
Possibly this article was written by a couple of half-way sensible folk, who were given the job to reach the crazy-flock and pull them back from the puritanical cliff edge.
But they don’t want to demoralize the unwashed masses too much, so they try to roll out some “hope” to end the speech on.
Here’s what Nirvana looks like to people who have never talked to a single climate skeptic. They cling to the fantasy that the average voter (they call them the “hard-right”) will wake up from the non-existent condition they call “climate denial”:
We predict a reversal in the 2030s. As climate denial mostly recedes on the right, hard-right pro-climate movements may emerge. For them, ecological concern could become a vehicle for white nationalism, opposition to democratic institutions and authoritarianism. This would be a bitter irony if it arose because the climate movement failed to engage a broad political spectrum.
Just like the climate modelers — the definitions are inane, the assumptions are delusional, and the predictions are the opposite of reality.