The Destructive Behavior of Climate Alarmists

I'm happy to let the AGW believers claim all the privileged, whining brats.

 

Versus little birds with scarlet legs,
sitting on their speckled eggs...

 

I have always preferred A.E. Housman over Auden.

 

He's brilliant.

Then, ’twas before my time, the Roman
At yonder heaving hill would stare:
The blood that warms an English yeoman,
The thoughts that hurt him, they were there …

 

You have to question the intellect of someone that glues themselves to concrete in the winter and brings neither a blanket nor a bucket.

Not exactly the kind of forward thinking mind needed I'd say.

 

The book Housman Country has a prominent place on my shelf.
My personal favorite Housman poem:
Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries
BY A. E. HOUSMAN
These, in the days when heaven was falling,
The hour when earth's foundations fled,
Followed their mercenary calling
And took their wages and are dead.


Their shoulders held the sky suspended;
They stood, and the earth's foundations stay;
What God abandoned, these defended,
And saved the sum of things for pay.

 

I wonder how much longer before someone says all this poetry is racist.

 

Hmm. The context was "white on white" (WW1).

 

How many people have *seen the light* of the cause, based on the extremist displays?

Not many, to be sure. More effective is those that do, quietly. Most people don't usually take to being threatened into doing something.

 

Too much white is always racist.

 

If I know nothing about some group's grievance, and they block traffic, or vandalize art, or otherwise cause harm to people who aren't involved in their problem, I instantly know they must be in the wrong. Hasn't failed me yet.

 

I think most of that category are idiots. Would you disagree with Vietnam protesters blocking traffic?

 

Good question. I think they would have been more effective if they had not blocked traffic.

A visit. to the black wall in DC proves that the anti-war movement was notary effective.

 

Yes. If you have a message for people, publish your message. That's freedom of speech/press. Until your government is actually arresting people for speaking out, you don't have a right to block traffic no matter how righteous your cause.

 

You can't make this up.
Convicted Climate Activist: “we need … a different form of democracy”
Eric Worrall
Speaking to World Socialist Web Site, convicted Aussie climate activist Deanna Coco explains why we need a form of democracy which doesn’t involve public elections to solve the climate crisis. . . .

 

The whack job thinks there is climate crisis, I say she is mentally ill as there is no evidence for it.

When people become that divorced from reality, they become dangerously fanatical in achieving their objectives hence her brainless advocacy where she and just a dribble few thinks they can simply tell the other 99% of the people what to do.

 

I.e., a form of "democracy" where she has the power to force other people to do what she believes they ought to do....

 

Americans have been fed up with the education system for at least half a century. They do not have the power to effectively reform such a massive entrenched boondoggle.

IMO, as soon as politicians figure out how easy it will be to win elections by offering to transfer total control of the education system from government to the parents and guardians of children the system will quickly be recast and regenerated from the ground up.

 

There have been many popular anthems for school reform.
This may be the best:

"We don't need no education.
We don't need no thought control.
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
Teacher, leave those kids alone.
Hey, Teacher, leave those kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

We don't need no education.
We don't need no thought control.
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
Teachers, leave those kids alone.
Hey, Teacher, leave those kids alone!
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall."

Pink Floyd, Another Brick In The Wall, Part II

But teachers would not be part of the problem if they were paid directly by parents and guardians of children.

 

Yeah, since they all run on a mirage of something the rest of us don't see because it doesn't exist.

 

It is unbelievable that a hypothetical that has never been scientifically proven is believed by so many. It shows how much dishonesty there is in the political, educational, and media arenas and how intellectually lazy and gullible the general public is.

 

I have actually been surprised by it. I knew the public was both unwilling and unable to understand the counterintuitive subtleties of evolution, psychology, economics, etc. but I never thought they could be convinced to disregard the clear, unambiguous physical evidence of their own senses, their own memories. I was wrong.

 

Now Paul Ehrlich makes a fool of himself by supporting his profoundly stupid book he wrote back in the 1960's The Population Bomb.

Watts Up With That?

Friday Funny: Paul Ehrlich Discredits the Peer Review Process

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From his twitter post

60 Minutes extinction story has brought the usual right-wing out in force. If I'm always wrong so is science, since my work is always peer-reviewed, including the POPULATION BOMB and I've gotten virtually every scientific honor. Sure I've made some mistakes, but no basic ones

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He IS always wrong that is what he doesn't understand about himself and his crap he published over the years, this is a classic sign of a man living in a world of delusions a condition of the mentally ill.

 

This comment is so revealing. He literally thinks that science is peer review, passing peer review guarantees factual correctness, and having bogus "honors" heaped on him in media-driven popularity contests makes his scientific views correct.

Again, it is very revealing that even after all these years, and all his wrong predictions, he still doesn't understand his basic mistake. It's the same basic mistake Malthus made more than 200 years ago, and which Henry George exposed clearly 140 years ago, and refuted with a single sentence: "The man and the jayhawk both eat chickens; but where there are more jayhawks there are fewer chickens, while where there are more men, there are more chickens."

Lots of people suffer similar delusions. I wouldn't call it mental illness, just the normal psychological weakness of fallible human beings.

 

What a Bozo.
Friday Funny: Paul Ehrlich Discredits the Peer Review Process
Charles Rotter
The poor should stay poor, to allow more for us. Hence the concept of “never-to-be-developed countries”. . .