4.4. Climate Activists, Environmentalists and Malthusians Climate activists, even though they have not even been to school as they are too busy teenagers testifying before the U.S. Congress or attending the UN Climate Action Summit, know better than scientists who have studied earth and planetary sciences, computer sciences and much more for their entire life and who dissent the «consensus». As unbelievable as it is, one must listen to Thunberg (2019) chastise world leaders and decide that science has been settled for more than 30 years. What does she know about science? Can someone tell me! Invited by the United Nations, Thunberg, born in 2003, has the gall when she has benefited of the best conditions of living that mankind has ever had these last 2 million years thanks to the hard work and intelligence of so many previous generations, she has the gall to declare to the world: «How dare you ? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words and yet I'm one of the lucky one, people are suffering, people are dying, dying ecosystems are collapsing, we are at the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money, the fairy tales of economic growth, how dare you continue to look away ? ... For more than 30 years the Science has been crystal clear, how dare you continue to look away, etc. » (Thunberg, 2019). Of course, she understands science better than Einstein (1919) who knew «the truth of a theory can never be proven» and Thunberg has decided that the matter is crystal clear and settled! Who else would dare to oppose such a savvy analysis. What a difference one century can make! It is simply bewildering that so many public organizations, e.g. Swedish Parliament, United Nations, U.S. Congress, etc., demonstrate such a lack of discernment and have extended invitations to a clueless teenager that is to become the world fortune teller and reveal the new gospel as she does in Pearl Jam’s song “Retrograde” with a startling vision for an Earth ravaged by climate change (Cohen, 2020). It is simply inappropriate and morally indefensible to make use of a dysfunctional youngster suffering from Asperger syndrome, obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), and selective mutism, a teenager who struggled with depression for three or four years before beginning a school strike, to promote the worst and totally baseless climate activist vision and this should be obvious to our leaders and to the media who have organized this saddening circus. This is too much like a setup to create any public trust in man-made climate change and will probably soon lead to a severe backlash as can be sensed from the comments left by the readers of the papers describing Thunberg achievements. Hopefully, the common sense of the people should not be underestimated. Mike Hulme has probably been one of the first to have enlightened us about the looming dangers of a future environmentalist push to try to promulgate a climate state of emergency (Hulme, 2018). Unfortunately, it seems that he was overly optimistic at the time, stating that «Simon’s People’s Petition to the British Government seems unlikely to go very far. …. But it is the underlying political populist instinct at work here that is concerning. Publicly calling for climate emergencies to be declared on the basis of the fear induced by cliff-edge deadline-ism is not good psychology. Neither is it based on good science and nor does it lead to effective politics». Unfortunately, since Hulme’s warning the Welsh and Scottish governments have both already declared a climate emergency, along with dozens of towns and cities, including Manchester and London. The UK Parliament has also declared climate change emergency in April 2019 and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who tabled the motion, said it was "a huge step forward". Later on, New York City officials declared a climate emergency in an effort to mobilize local and national responses to stall global warming. «The New York City Council passed the legislation Wednesday, calling for an immediate response to the global climate crises. The bill referenced several reports on the state of global warming and its impact, imparting that extreme weather events brought about by rising temperatures demonstrates that the planet is "too hot to be a safe environment» (Andrew and Ahmed, 2019). The European parliament has followed suit and declared a global “climate and environmental emergency” as it urged all EU countries to commit to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 (The Irish Times, 2019). A spreadsheet of more than 670 governments in 15 countries having declared climate emergencies as of May 2020 is available from Innovation for Cool Earth Forum (ICEF, 2020). It is simply frightening as under these state of emergencies, likewise with the Covid-1984, all your most basic constitutional freedoms could be banned at their will. You will become slaves of their lunacies.
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