Global Warning: How Gaia Replaced God
Environmentalism has been transmogrified from a wholesome movement to make the earth a healthier and cleaner habitat for human beings into an antihumanist, eco-worshipping cult, where man’s footprint anywhere at all is perceived as inherently toxic.
Indeed, some influential environmentalists actively promote the atrophy of humanity so that the earth can return to a pristine natural state. David Graber, a National Park Service biologist writes, “Until such time as Homo Sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along.” David Foreman, leader of Earth First!, says that “it may well take our extinction to set things straight.” Paul Watson, Greenpeace’s co-founder and head of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, calls human beings “the AIDS of the Earth.” Where is the outrage at such moral inversion? Not in the mainstream media, that’s for sure.
Consecrated to their dual messianic vision of global “social justice” and eco-atavism, the high priests of environmentalism whip up hysteria about man-made global warming as a strategic weapon to chill apostate discourse. Their obsession, unchecked by responsible journalism, emboldens them.
In Solway’s environmental Rogues’ Gallery, you meet heavyweights like Canadian fruit fly specialist and enviro-guru David Suzuki arguing that politicians who fail to act on environmental issues should be thrown into jail, and British lawyer Polly Higgins petitioning the United Nations to declare “ecocide” a punishable crime and prosecute “climate deniers.” You have Steve Zwick of Forbes magazine recently writing: “We know who the active denialists are….Let’s start keeping track of them now, and when the famines come, let’s make them pay. Let’s let their houses burn…”.
These and many more. But the George Orwell award goes to the UK utility Npower, which initiated a promotional campaign in which children can apply for a “free climate cops challenge diary” to record their parents’ “climate crimes.”
Such alarming manifestations of political pathology throw a harsh light on the “Climatocracy’s” totalitarian mindset toward “carbon chastity.” They have not, thankfully, gone unchallenged by reasonable minds, and Solway proffers some heartening examples of brusque rational pushback. Czech president Vaclav Klaus warns: “As someone who lived under communism for most of his life, I feel obliged to say that I see the biggest threat to freedom… in ambitious environmentalism…”; and in his book Liberal Fascism, Jonah Goldberg says that “environmentalism gives license to the sort of moral bullying and intrusion that, were it couched in terms of traditional morality, liberals would immediately denounce as fascist.”
Solway is lucky to have found a conservative Canadian publisher. (Full disclosure: Solway’s publisher, Freedom Press [Canada], has published one of my books and will soon publish another). Unequivocal challengers of enviro-correctness are often considered conspiracy theorists or worse in Canada, where Big Government and Big Solutions are not only tolerated, but the norm, and where Solway’s Swiftian brand of saevo indignatio would be a turnoff to mainstream publishers targeting a wide swathe of “polite” Canadians.
Too much is at stake here to mince words. What is needed, if disinterested science is to prevail, is less politeness and more forthrightness. The jury is in on this gem of a book, readable in a sitting. It’s good, and worthy of wide distribution.
Fossil Fuel Debate
On July 30, 2012 Alex Espteing wrote on Master Resource: “On November 5, I will be debating Bill McKibben, considered “world’s leading environmentalist” by some, on the proposition: “Fossil fuels are a risk to the planet.” I will be arguing that fossil fuels dramatically improve the planet for human beings.”
http://www.masterresource.org/2012/07/debate-350-orgs-bill-mckibben-vs-cips-alex-epstein/
Oops, Alex Epstein of the Center for Industrial Progress will be debating Bill McKibben 11/5/2012.
I am so glad to have more common sense books that accurately perceive this for the reinvigorated political, economic, and human control ideology that it is. Too often now though I encounter the “we are winning on this meme” issue. Completely unaware that K-12 and higher ed globally are being restructured to make this political ideology the dominant curriculum and classroom interaction device. Relevant complex problem-solving and systems thinking is how it is sold.
All of these focuses seek to create what Paul Ehrlich called Newmindedness and James Burke referred to as eliminating Axemaker Minds. The 21st Century when instinct and emotion were cultivated by educational institutions deliberately to make future voters malleable and thus easy to manipulate. Here’s just one of the many posts on where this battle is really being fought and the planned permanent effects. http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/when-deep-learning-and-systems-thinking-radicalizes-the-student-factual-reality-ceases-to-matter/
And thanks obiwankenobi, Bill McKibben came on my radar screen when he joined up with the new economics institute, which I had tracked through the Global Transitions 2012 site. The Line of Plenty is a concept every voter in the US and West should understand. And if the Club of Rome regards their UK affiliate, the new economics foundation, as a primary theorist and implementation tool, nef should be on everyone’s radar as well.
You’re most welcome, Robin. BTW: Wasn’t it Ol’ Honest Abe who said, “The philosophy of the classroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”
Probably not.
When you read the hatred that “environmentalists” have for mankind you have to wonder whether their efforts are directed at stopping warming or starting cooling. A warmer earth presents few, if any, material risks to mankind. A cooler earth would create cataclysmic famine and cause the death of a significant portion of the population. Friends of the Earth, Enemies of Mankind.
If you want to know where they’re coming from, look up Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s “noble savage” hypothesis, the German Romantic movement of the 1800s, John Muir, and the UFO contactee movement, notably George Adamski and Donald M. Ware.
All of the above were entranced by an idea of man living in primitive, agrarian socialist communal groups. All were revulsed by “modernism”. All suffered from delusions about the way science and especially physics actually worked.
The Romantic Movement was the basis of the delusional- and lethal- worldview of the Nazis in Germany. Look up “Madame Blavatsky” and “Theosophical Movement”, and/or “Hans Horbiger” and “Weltislehre” aka “Eternal Ice Theory”; the latter became the “house theology” of Nazi Germany.
All of the above were formative factors of modern “environmentalism”, and “progressive” dogmas, without most of their adherents even realizing where their grand, philosophically “pure” ideas originally came from. For an experiment, ask a supposedly well-informed “ecologist” about the “Velikovsky” theory of planetary formation, as in the book Worlds in Collision. It’s little more that a repetition of Horbiger.
Modern-day progressivism’s, and environmentalism’s, revulsion for modern civilization had their beginnings in 19th century European elites’ revulsion for their civilization, plus the rest of humanity. A century ago, the result was “eugenics”, followed by Auschwitz and Dachau. Today, they are aiming higher.
They don’t just want to wipe out small groups of “imperfect” people. They want the planet all to themselves.
The rest of us will not be invited to the victory party.
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69.87% of all statistics are just made up, and another 23.41% are calculated from made-up numbers.
While Central Europe has had some cute points of view regarding Mother Nature, and Gaia (Gaia was a Near Eastern and Greek goddess way before Isaac Asimov or James Lovelock), the modern version of this “religion”, I believe, came about in 1985, when a Swede by the name of Bert Bolin came up with the concept, and it sounded plausible. The planet was warming after the 1970′s Ice Age panic, Thatcher loved it because of her dispute with coal miners, the Germans problably saw the opportunity to finance their reunification (please recall that in 1985 Reagan visited some German cemetery with Waffen SS tombs, and a few months later met with Gorbatchev; with the benefit of hindisght, one may surmise that the future was being contemplated), to make a long story short, AGW became German State policy in 1987, and a carbon copy of that policy surfaced in Rio in the early 90′s, right after the collapse of the USSR. All these may be found in better writing in John Rosenthal’s h++p://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/secret-history-climate-alarmism and h++p://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/43291. Some in the US must have found use for this new religion as there are enough believers (of the Donkey persuasion).
To me, with me current biases, it is the revival of Wagnerian stuff in a meta-modern, money making, tax guzzling, idiot fostering package. The question I am unable to resolve is why is there such a high correlation between Democrats and the love of such European religions.
Because they have never realized that Europe is what America was invented to get away from.
“……the value of this book lies in its revelations of the disturbing lengths to which advocates of man-made global warming will go to suppress inquiry into the “settled science” by resistant scientists and laypeople alike……”
This is all one needs to know to realize that the AGW hypothesis is the biggest scientific fraud in the history of the world.
What motivates these AGW zealots;? either money or their pseudo-religious political ideology or both.
It is simply no coincidence that almost all the AGW nazi/stalinist zealots are leftists, communists, socialists or liberal “progressives.” These folks have always held the common person in contempt and believe, with every ounce of their being, that they, the ordinary folks, do not deserve to live as they choose. Only the self-anointed, arrogant, “intellectuals” and their water-carriers are allowed to live as they choose and enjoy those finer things brought to fruition by that evil, cynical, greedy system known as capitalism.
Look at every country run by left wing ideologues and you will see a very small group of unelected, self-anointed narcissists,tyrants and murderers running the show and compelling, using any and all means, the citizenry to obey them. While the ruling elites enjoy all the luxuries and privileges of the super rich, they deny the citizens the opportunity to achieve the same. Thus is the contempt, hatred these elites have for ordinary folks.
AS the former communist bully dicatator of Rumania once said to an aide, ” the hell with the Rumanian people, they are too stupid to know any better.”
THAT !!!! my friends is the mindset of the self anointed elites. And that is the mindset of the “scientists,” politicians and others who demean, insult, personaly attack and destroy anyone who dares question the AGW thesis.
One of these days, the truth will come out and if there in any justice in the world, the phoney, lying, frauds who originated and carried out this grand fraud should be totally stripped of all their assets – EVERY SINGLE ASSET – and tossed into solitary confinement until they are dead. Yea, to be a little nice to them, they should be allowed access to the exercise yard for one hours per year.
The world system hates G-d the creator. They want to worship the creation in it’s many forms.
One part of the false Trinity is Gaia, or earth Mother. Also, known as Semiriams the wife, and Mother of Nimrod. They had a son named Tammuz.
Tammuz’s symbol is the crescent moon. Tammuz is also known as the god Sin.
In the New Age Sin gets his power from the Sun god, and the earth Mother will need a lot more human blood to bring forth a few more WTO regions. Mainly #4, and #1.
When families are broken up by financial hardship, women murder their young, Homosexuality is normal, and to many are on the government sugar tit, it is easy to mislead humans away from that which created them, and loved them so much it died for them.
There is only one thing left to make earth as it was in the time of Noah. The Nephilim.
Antarctic Ice Area Sets Another Record – ‘Ice is highest ever for the date, and 8th highest daily reading ever recorded — Media & Fed National Snow & Ice Data Center Are Silent
http://www.climatedepot.com/
Last year icebergs calved off of the Ross Sea shelf were spotted as far north as 30 degrees south, off New Zealand. And the bergs were considerably bigger than usual. The warmists were screaming, “The Antarctic icepack is collapsing!”
Well, no, it wasn’t. The Ross Shelf was just so big and thick that it was calving at the outer edges even more than usual, and the resulting bergs were real whoppers. (One plugged the entry to Little America for several weeks, at the height of the summer down there, December.) But more importantly, the waters in the currents that carried the bergs north was so much colder than normal that they weren’t melting as fast as usual. (Generally, they’re gone before they get much north of 40 degrees south.) The same thing was happening on the Atlantic side, on the Filchner Shelf, with some bergs getting close to the Brazilian coast.
Needless to say, the warmists weren’t interested in exploring these little data points. They conflicted with the “narrative”.
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7. Leatherneck There is only one thing left to make earth as it was in the time of Noah. The Nephilim.
They’ll be back alright, as will other alien species.
This is all coordinated BS. There is really nothing special about it.
When is a Religion not a Religion, but actually a Religion as in a Cult?
Gaia will do ya.
Measure the deductive reasoning presence and follow its content.
In 1790 as France and formal religion lay as a corpse in the cathedral, numerous creatures fled the cooling mass. They were varieties of secular religion. Each functioned on deductive reasoning to animate its beliefs, and each used scientific method of reasoning (inductive reasoning) to defeat its enemies. These creatures seemed to avidly follow the Third Commandment.
In later times, these philosophical creatures have gotten more efficient. Catastrophic global cooling was a good trial run. Changed to human-caused global warming, it successfully put Original Sin back into every action of every life.
I, an engineer who worked on a score of nukes, two score of fossil fueled power plants, and decades assessing advanced technology, in energy and high performance materials (related fields)have followed global warming, not climate change for decades. I have no expertise in climatology.
My judgments:
The vast majority of writers, supporting AGW (man caused climate problems) in the popular press are either journalists, political scientists, or politically connected experts.
Without low cost energy derived from the combustion of carbon, vast numbers of humans will die off. There is no other energy technology that can support 7 + billion people.
America’s grid will continue to rot and will collapse, for long periods, perhaps years, if we do not establish a sane energy policy (ie build something) soon. IMHO this is a far greater danger to life than climate change, or ruptured nukes. We are out of time, our plants are scrape iron and we are broke.
I have a list of 77 world authorities, professor emeritus level, in the hard sciences who have signed a statement that the combustion of carbon is not a serious threat to mankind.
America has been overtaken by Asia in the combustion of coal. They will not stop using it because it is cheap, and if present trends continue their robust economies will overwhelm America’s heavy industry within years, or decades. Heavy industry sits on the bed rock of the industrial revolution, coal combustion. The EPA can destroy our economy, but lacks the power to arrest this inevitable situation.
The US should aggressively pursue carbon combustion, in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases, on a war footing, along with nuclear energy for base loaded electrical supply. There are no other cost effective technologies for bulk supply.
The smart grid within utilities and the grid is needed. It must stop at your house meter, or you will suffer greatly. You will be at the mercy of some bureaucrat, who can kill your power because there is not enough to go around. It is a small, hidden step to created a set of chosen few who always will have power.
Our biggest, perhaps fatal weakness is that US engineering colleges quit teaching vital course work decades ago. Their grads could not find work. Our nation lacks two generations of experienced power plant engineers. And pouring money on a problem, without smart vets, is just dumb.
Our politicians are lethally stupid and we are at game point, down against Gaia.
Strike, “not climate change”, insert, “now climate change”.
I can not type and the phone rang.
Your comment should be elevated to a post.
No — it should be elevated to national policy.
Seconded.
To nature man is but fertilizer which has the capacity to create more fertilizer for some future plan unknown. Nature does not care if we go extinct. The processes of organic and inorganic redistribution will continue.
Nature can’t ‘plan’ or ‘care’ because nature has neither intelligence nor memory. Nature is just ordered power.
Don’t tell me about that sneaky bitch Gaia. She’s the one who conspired with Hades to seduce Persephone.There she was, singing in her lovely Persephonic way and playing in a meadow when she spied a glorious plant with a hundred fragrant blossoms. This plant had been sent up expressly by old droopy-breasts Gaia. When Persephone hurried to pluck the fragrant blossoms, the Earth gaped and a great god appeared in a golden chariot to carry poor Persephone down into his abyss.
Those airheads who sit at Gaia’s muddy feet chant “it is against my intuition of unity to say I can kill you because I am more valuable, for all things on Earth are equal in moral value”. Next they sing ” but it is not against my intuition to say I will kill you because I am hungry, just as the tiger savages the antelope.” Listen up all you hungry criminals out there – the followers of knock kneed Gaia say it’s OK to kill someone and steal his wallet because you are hungry???!!!
Me, well I am indifferent to you all whatever you may be. Just don’t mess with my knitting.
Oh rats – I used the wrong name @ 14 and shot myself in my better nature. Oh well, time for a beer.
“Solway is a … poet, (retired) college literature teacher, educational theorist, travel writer, producer, scriptwriter, musician/singer … literary critic[s].”
I am missing: Geologist, biologist, ecologist, Meteorologist, or even archaeologist or palaeontologist!
Sorry, but if I want an opinion on evolution, I don’t ask a JW, and if I want to know about Sol III (intentional pun) – I ask a scientist – not a poet.
While I am not giving an opinion on whether global warming is occurring due to humans (I am only an engineer) or whether it is part of the natural cycle since the last Ice Age; I do believe that 7+billions chopping down trees, not to mention atom bomb testing in the sea – is bound to have some effect on the weather. ZPE would be a good start.
You don’t have to be a scientist to be able to think. But then as an engineer you should already know that.
Maybe I should have said: as an engineer worthy of the name, you should already know that.
maybe I should have said: As an engineer worthy of the name you should already know that.
If you read Dr Judith Curry’s “ClimateEtc” web site it becomes clear that you’re seeing the 80/20 rule in action. It’s no different than the majority of voters (the 80%) being reasonably moderate and the 20% being idealogues; look at the breakdown of the GOP alone vis a vis moderates vs hardliner conservatives, it’s the same rough ratio. The problem having this article HERE is that this site is the playground of the 20%.
Meanwhile the Solway book like every other #%#$ purportedly “revelatory” book is being described as aiming straight at the 20% of the Climate Alarm crowd, and yes, there’s a lot of malthusian douchebags that this appeals to, but then again these same douchebags are also protesting nuclear energy, automobiles and so on.
As near as I can determine the *majority* of AGW “believers” (this would include me) are pretty much convinced that sure, CO2 being emitted by man can and will warm the planet as per Arrhenius postulated, but said warming doesn’t warrant as much concern as it’s given, and certainly the ramifications of politics and politicians taxing your breath itself is absurd. In other words global warming and CO2 Tyndall Gas Effect is real enough but not terrible by itself and there is more danger from idiotic policy.
Now the big question is this: are the blowhard malthusian douchebags that influential? In the community of those who follow this stuff, not really, although sure, there are always some supporters. After all, there are also idiots on the other side of the fence that are believers and followers of antipodal (equal and opposite) far right blowhard douchebags like Rush Limbaugh. Therefore the question is HOW MUCH influence is being wielded. Answer: not as much as the extremists want.
As such I would guess that Solway’s book as described may stir up the more rabid 20% of the ideological far right of the GOP, but otherwise it’s unlikely to be useful. If you want to read something useful re climate on the anti-alarmist side try Andrew Mortford’s book (go to the BishopHill web site for link.)
As a Physicist and someone who makes his livelihood on statistical analysis of data, the global warming data is just cherry picking from noise. The Global warming march is, in my opinion, Statists who want to enslave the average person and the useful idiots of the statists.
If you want the raw date go to ORNL.GOV and download the full data sets.
When I did I analyzed the raw data, including the information that the CO2 Data are in effect, an average not instantaneous data.
The results I got were all within the variance from the last 10,000 years. There is no compelling evidence for global warming global cooling, or stable temperature. The data are too noisy to make a solid decision.
Environmentalism is not about the worship of Gaia.
It is about the worship of Leviathan.
That is, as a species of antihumanism, its argument boil;s down to this:
1. The human race is fundamentally destructive, not creative.
2. Therefore its numbers, activities, and liberties must be severely constrained.
3. Therefore someone must be empowered to do the constraining.
4. Therefore tyranny is necessary. QED.
The consequences of this thesis as put into action over the past two hundred years are laid out in my book, “Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism.”
People can check it out at http://www.merchantsofdespair.com.
The eco-freak mantra: “There is no goddess but Gaia, and Al Gore is her prophet.”
AGW’ers and other radical environmentalists are part of what Pope John Paul II denounced as the “culture of death,” along with Muslims (hence the above parody of their mantra), blacks, homosexuals and feminists. If the eco-freaks truly believe humans are the scourge of the planet, they should lead by example and kill themselves. The cessation of all that hot air spewing from their mouths would go a long way toward easing the AGW they supposedly fear.
Barbara, thank you for the link to Solway’s book at Amazon. I intend to do my part for the planet by getting the Kindle version, which helps save trees. And my wallet will be happy with the 48% savings.