ICYMI – from a few weeks ago – Michael Schellenberger details how the Cult of Moloch seeks to belittle every human accomplishment and make children hate themselves and their parents
outlawing human rights and turning basic needs into luxuries
From this 57 minute interview here:
“Greta Thunberg is an end stage product of the climate religion. As renewables come into crisis everywhere in the world because of local community opposition to the land use impacts, as well as the high associated costs, the bloom is coming off the rose for climate activists.”
Michael Shellenberger is an environmentalist, author, and advocate for pragmatic solutions to climate change. He joins Steven Edginton to talk about the ‘religion’ of climate change..”.
Here is a 5 minute sample of the conversation taken from around the 23 minute mark:
“There's an atmosphere where children today feel that they have the right to tell their parents that they are ignorant and to blame their parents and their grandparents for emitting carbon and for destroying their future.”
Do you think that is also a dynamic that has become more popular particularly in the United States and Western countries?”
yeah absolutely it has and it's actually an anti-civilization discourse as well I mean we have to remember that all of this prosperity came from us telling stories about our future that were positive while expressing gratitude towards our ancestors
you know this is true in the western world it's also true in Asia where you see uh sort of ancestor worship which is a way of expressing gratitude for everything that's come before us and also extending that responsibility into the future with our kids
but I was very struck when we saw the protest by “just stop oil” which was the evolution of Extinction Rebellion last year and they were doing a set of things I found very interesting
they were throwing soup onto paintings including the famous van Gogh sunflowers
they poured milk onto the floors at a grocery store and they glued their hands to a floor at an auto display at an automobile display and I remember thinking to myself well this is incredible because these are the behaviors of toddlers throwing temper tantrums
so it's really the infantilism of an apocalyptic worldview that then is conjoined
as you mentioned with Greta Thunberg being sort of the leading climate change advocate so the process of infantilization
in some ways goes back also many decades along with rising secularism rising narcissism you see rising infantilism where people take longer to become adults in societies
that probably just as a result that prosperity has meant that we haven't needed to become you know the kids don't need to help their parents on the farms anymore you've seen the decline of chores the decline of chores the decline of free play
these factors are viewed by psychologists as the drivers of the rising anxiety and narcissism in young people so they're really getting it from all directions and so you can see people starting to act out and starting to trying to get particular psychological needs met in adulthood through climate advocacy
“do you worry about eco terrorism?”
there has been some eco terrorism, episodes of violence by environmentalists it's often I don't think it's the main event
I worry much more about the ways in which these things undermine civilization undermining cheap energy - you know civilization is not super complicated like you need three basic things
cheap energy - law and order - meritocracy
if you'd like to have a liberal democracy then you would want also
equal justice under the law you would want free speech you'd want free markets
we see all six of those foundations of liberal Democratic Western Civilization under attack by the radical or woke left with a view of replacing all those things with some different moral order when based on racial hierarchy on an idea that one sex is determined by the individual and also based on this idea that the world is coming to an end from climate change and that we need to radically reduce our energy and food consumption and actually and supposedly harmonize with the natural environment even though that involves expanding our environmental footprint
so I do worry more about the anti-civilization impacts than I do about the tactical behaviors though certainly we saw in Britain with the “just stop oil” last year at least one motorist killed as part of those “just stop oil” protests “
Worth a 47 minute viewing!
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It is quite a long interview but has been annotated for sections. I must look more closely when I have some time. Anyway, thank you very much for posting, looks very good.
I wonder where the people throwing temper tantrums today will be when this is over because history always repeats itself. I know this time we have allot of evil to deal with as hell is empty but it will end because there are allot of great men and women fighting to bring back sanity. I think the trans movement will be the hardest to overcome because body parts have been removed to sacrifice to moloch, how do they come back from that. Once they realize the world is not going to end, we're going to see chalked full mental hospitals.