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Originally Posted by Marc1
Ha ha, Jim and Co, that was a grand tirade of replies.
Predictable in content and vitriol ... but still great. 
Allow me to let you in a little secret.
Unless you have a large amount of shares, or you own one or several factories in China that produce solar panels or wind turbines, you are doing the dirty work for someone else.
A select group of billionaires has realised way before you started to get all worked up, that there is a large number of people who are very enthusiastic about the environment and at the same time have lefty tendencies.
I heard people call others watermelons, that is green on the outside and red on the inside, but that is a bit disrespectful and I try to avoid that label. However it describes a lot of environmentalist to a T, even when there is no relation between socialism in it's different formats and an interest for the environment. Unfortunately the green movement has been hijacked by the leftover of the communist party who has lost all credibility and so we get the current mix.
But back to how this new religion works. We have the prominent figures doing the agitating, from ex politicians to actors and other cry babies with easy access to good media coverage, denouncing human kind and their sins, like breathing and passing wind for example, eating meat and driving cars, and generally existing. The more courageous state that we should be only 2 billions but mercifully pass on telling us how to kill the other 4 billions.
Then we have the army of millions of generally unsatisfied foot soldiers who would like things to be different. For example that everyone had a small car (or no car at all) or a small boat or a small house, no aircon etc. Yes, just a general mediocre view of the world with no grand works that disturb nature like agriculture, animal husbandry and similar atrocities.
What best way to encite all this millions of unsatisfied people and achieve the goal of selling useless expensive contraptions that would otherwise be unsellable?
Giving them one more reason to hate their fellow man who happens to have worked toward prosperity and generally abundance and wellbeing? Tell them that those bad "rich" people are destroying our habitat with this terrible pollutant that is CO2. Remember to fit in your speech appeals to the emotions, like animal being killed and statements that contain the words like "your children", "the future" and similar appeals.
Threaten university teachers with the sack if they dare to contradict this new religious dogma, stop publication of any article that is not global warming compliant, and lobby politicians to promote alternatives sources of energy, hiding their highly polluting potential in the production stage, installation stage, generating stages and disposal stages, and promise to harvest the green vote if they comply.
I must say that this strategy is not new, having been used very effectively in the middle ages by the prominent religion of the time that turned into a political force so powerful that no kingdom could exist without it's alliance.
Funny how we have not changed since Emperor Constantino in the year 300 realised that a unified religion was the way to go.
And the fact that we have information at the tip of our fingers seems to make no difference.
The reality is that humans believe what they want to believe. A bit like we make our own reality.
Oh well. I am only partially interested in all this circus and am more in the contemplative side of things, watching all the excitement like one watches a movie. The actors are mostly mediocre, but it is what it is.
Nature, if we can personalise it for illustrative purposes only, continues it's course despite us and certainly despite all the so called green initiatives. This era will go down in history as the era of stupidity when a large size of humanity fell for a rather clever fraud ... yet again.
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Apocryphal Galilean stories notwithstanding (remember, the facts support you being on the side of the 'infallible' Church, not the scientists, unless of course you are either a conspiracist or are unable to successfully differentiate fact from fiction {which seems obvious}).
And, 'yet again', those who are able to differentiate between fact and fiction realize exactly where the fraud is bring perpetuated from, and, if in the near future the 'history' is 'revised' (to which I give roughly even chances) the archaeological
record will show precisely where, when and possibly even how that fraud was perpetuated. That you appear unable to comprehend this testifies to either the
depth of your self-delusion or the (proven) success of Bernaysian manipulation.
Whilst, according to some, mediocrity has its' merits, in the real world those merits are rarely game-changing; they're typically more along the lines Crusoe's father gave him regarding the 'ideal' position in life...So your rather mediocre insult, intentional or not, is belied (as is your claim to 'contemplativeness') by the nature of your past and
current posts.
If you want to get into a discussion on the nature of reality, great...it is rather telling though, that you use that philosophical point to disguise what it appears that either you believe or how you think everyone else carries out their lives.
I'm not so lucky, I can only tell you how I try to carry out my life, and that is to 'believe' what I have to believe, certainly not what I want to. (Can't resist) Who do you think I am, the Trumpster?
What's really
funny is that you seem to think that 'Emperor Constantino' was the first to realize that 'unified religion' was 'the way to go' (whatever that means), when there is actual archaeological proof of 'unified religion' going back at least 12,000 years. What you seem to be conflating are changing conceptions, or levels, of 'globalism'.
As for 'the fact that we have information at the tip of our fingers seems to make no difference', you do realize that you're only describing a fundamental tenant of life? And thus, how utterly non-special 'humanity' is?
Your attraction and predisposition towards the 'middle ages' in relation to current times is almost as curious as your provincial assumptions that whatever opinions you've formed are in any way accurate in representing either the middle ages or contemporary times. On what basis do you think that 'the prominent religion of the time that turned into a political force so powerful that no kingdom could exist without it's alliance' has any validity, especially so with no qualifications? That you continue to make such unqualified statements only reinforces that you should not be taken seriously.
You continue to portray this litany of 'slights' (i feel sure in your mind that they're 'crimes') yet you fail to provide any verifiable evidence to support these actions. Please show just one example of each of the 8 that you list.
Perhaps you should think about what you say before you say it. I see precious little 'hate' from the 'green side' towards true prosperity and well being. I see plenty of fear, resentment and anger from them towards those who try to dictate what they (the 'greenies') should accept as prosperity and well being, while I see even more fear from the rich, the wanna-be rich, and the wanna-be-but-never-will (who've been manipulated into that position by the unscrupulous, if not truly evil, machinations of those of the financially truly 'rich'). Perhaps oddly, the line between them (the greenies and wanna-bes of both grades) in much less distinct than is portrayed in the media circus...
That you misconstrue and conflate is no longer worth mentioning. That you misunderstand what constitutes true satisfaction seems obvious, if you think, as it seems by your statement, that 'satisfaction' is derived from having a 'big' car,
boat, house or air conditioner.
It is likely that your perception of 'grand works' is similarly limited in
scope, but since you fail to list any, I'll, perhaps thankfully, refrain from speculation.
I doubt seriously that anyone has anything against either agriculture or animal husbandry (except vegans, who bear many striking resemblances to AGW deniers), though certainly industrial agriculture and animal husbandry (which in the current state is an oxymoron) have huge negative impacts. Oddly, a return to true agriculture and animal husbandry would have orders of magnitude more efficacy in alleviating 'dis-satisfaction' with the modern world than any number of new 'jew-jaws' or 'societal tweaks'. Meaningful
work is the great satisfier...
As for cry-babies, who here is crying loudest? Certainly appears to be you and others like you.
Meanwhile, those whom you have problems with continue to make fact-based statements designed to illustrate, call attention to, and hopefully influence policy decisions on the very real problems facing the planet as a result of unrestricted human growth and
consumption. Whether you like or believe it, the planet is finite in size, and humans cannot live here alone; it is a biological impossibility. For much the same reason, there is almost zero possibility of establishing a self-sustaining human population anywhere else, be it spaceship, planet, asteroid or comet. It therefore is of utmost importance that the past and current disregard of the ecosystem as a whole be discontinued and a new system be gradually implemented that strives to balance (within evolutionary reason) the forces within that system. Unrestrained market forces have proven again and again to have serious long term problems. (though from an evolutionary standpoint they are invaluable [which may which goes a long way to explaining what might well turn out to be 'human kinds' somewhat 'short run']).
Regarding your perception of what the 'gilded greenies' think are 'sins', you're again giving away the sources of your opinion.
If you were actually serious about understanding any of those 'sins', you wouldn't just repeat what you've heard and want to believe. For instance, there is a valid rough number, based on body mass and ecosystem size and dynamics, for the population of a given species. If memory serves the number for humans on earth is either 700,000 or 7,000.000, so whomever you're relying on for your misinformation is off by several orders of magnitude.
But of course it doesn't matter, because it's only in the minds of the deniers and conspiracists that anyone wants to "kill the other 4 billions".
Oddly though, the 'business as usual' policies advocated by those same deniers and conspiracists may well have that effect, and in a particularly ugly way.
Funny how you don't want to 'disrespect' anyone by calling them a watermelon, and then you describe how they are, in effect, a watermelon.
The rest of the paragraph is indecipherable, so I won't try.
The unsupported (and as far as I can tell, unsupportable) statement about crafty 'select billionaires' with secret, ulterior motives manipulating innocent but well meaning 'lefties',
yet again illustrates who is providing you with an opinion. Can I say it any clearer, "Do some real
research. Learn to think for yourself."
Let me tell
you a little secret. There are concrete, discernible truths in the world. It is not new that there are people, and groups of people, who have vested interests in trying to change those truths to fit their interests.
Galileo and Bruno are demonstrably on the side of those truths, even when they were personally wrong, because the evidence corrected them. Climate science is on the same side for the same reasons. It is not, and cannot be certain, but it is certainly close enough for policy decisions to be made, and most responsible governments are trying to make at least some.
This is rather old news but
Google 'Shell blueprint or scramble"
But nice deflection in any event, especially since my post referenced 100 years of socialist failures. 
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