Climate Hysteria

Introduction

Let me preface this with, I do see some common ground with environmentalists, in that:

Wastefulness

Pollution

Throwaway culture

Overconsumption

are all inherently bad. We only have limited resources on this rock we call home. If, for example, we can make supplies last for 10 more millenia instead of 1, or, even 9, I am all for that.

I will refrain from touching on the economical impact that is happening and will worsen if this trajectory isn't stopped, as that could be its own dedicated post.

With that out of the way...

Changing Stories

I honestly cannot wrap my head around how so many people, especially here on Gemini, have bought into the climate hysteria. I'm old enough to remember a time when the 'polar ice caps will be gone by the year 2000!'.

This type of rhetoric goes back even further, to the 1970s, a mere half-century ago. It started with claims that we are heading into an ice age, within 10-15 years. Global cooling was the name. Then ... nothing happened. Let's call it global warming this time! Wait, no, climate change. No, not scary enough. People still are not 100% buying it. Climate crisis! Climate emergency!

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. The alarmists sound like televangelists who claim to have secret knowledge of the end of days. Send money, it'll help our cause!

Give me a break...

Hypocrisy

Then you have the fact that, from their own actions, the globalist elites who push this narrative don't even believe it. If we were that close to certain death, they would not continue buying oceanfront property that will supposedly be underwater in a decade. They would give up their private jets, and stop generating more CO2 in a year than I ever will in my lifetime. But if you buy this expensive carbon credit, we are all Saved! Again, they are like doomsday televangelists.

I think some people are close to seeing this, hence the exhasperation of some who also see the hypocrisy here about the private jets.

If you dare to question any of this on social media, it gets censored immediately. Just like with other topics of our day, if you cannot refute a challenge and instead resort to censorship, deplatforming, and the like, it proves your position is tenuous and deceitful at best, or malicious at worst.

Common 'Proofs'

> 93% percent of scientists agree!

That is a logical fallacy, your argument is invalid. Please try again. Even if it weren't fallacious, science is not a democracy, nor should it be. Disagree? Tell that to Galileo.

> Look at all the extreme climate events!

... that is called weather, which has always been crazy and unpredictable. Nice try.

> We have 2 centuries of climate data to prove it!

2 centuries is not even a blip on the radar on a geological timescale.

> We have to take action now or we are all dead in 10 years!

Yeah, so you've been telling me for 50 years now... I don't believe you.

> The earth is overpopulated, compounding the problem.

Mankind is on a path to a demographic winter. Additionally, the entire global population could fit into Texas. If you feel that crowded, here's a simple solution: get out of the major metropolitan areas.

Solutioneering

Every 'solution' to this 'problem' that I have encountered involves collectivism, centralization, authoritarianism and infringement or deletion of basic human liberties. The problem is always framed as rooted in capitalism, as well. Look, I am no die-hard defender of capitalism (Big Tech and all its problems, for example, are a symptom of capitalism), but when the 'answer' to it all is: 'socialism!' or 'communism!', your political bias is showing. What these people really should do is drop the facade and just say what they're really after: authoritarianism.

Summary

The narrative of man-made catastropic climate change is a myth, with all the trappings of a religion. It has:

Doomsday scenarios (mass extinction)

Saviors (globalist elites)

Holy rituals (measuring and reducing your carbon footprint)

Heretics (deniers and questioners)

True Believers (anyone who buys the narrative)

A big bad guy (fossil fuels, capitalism, or in some sects, mankind itself)

A utopic ideal for which to strive