Today thousands of
students useful idiots took to the streets to call for immediate action to combat global warming.
The New York Times reports:
Anxious about their future on a hotter planet, angry at world leaders for failing to arrest the crisis, hundreds of thousands of young people poured into the streets on Friday for a day of global climate protest.
In New York City the main demonstration got underway around midday, but participants began assembling early at Foley Square and it was clear that turnout would be large. By midafternoon, the New York City mayor’s office estimated the crowd at 60,000.
“I’m feeling very hopeful,” said Azalea Danes, 20, a senior at the Bronx High School of Science. “This is our first inter generational strike.”
Thousands of marchers eventually made their way out of the square, turning south on Broadway and heading toward an afternoon rally at Battery Park. Youth leaders led the group in chants of “you had a future and so should we” and “we vote next” as they marched.
Ironically these protests come only two weeks after the General-Secretary of the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said that "
the alarmist narrative on climate change has gone off the rails and criticised the news media for provoking unjustified anxiety."
Speaking to Finland’s financial newspaper Talouselämä (“The Journal”) on 6 September 2019, Petteri Taalas called for cooler heads to prevail, saying that he does not accept arguments of climate alarmists that the end of the world is at hand.
Dr Taalas also spoke of the dangers of green extremism:
“While climate sceptisism has become less of an issue, now we are being challenged from the other side. Climate experts have been attacked by these people and they claim that we should be much more radical. They are doomsters and extremists; they make threats.”
And he called for the media both to challenge experts and allow a broader range of opinions to be heard.
He added: “I hope mainstream climate scientists and the news media sit up and take notice; it’s high time they put some professional distance between themselves and radical greens and start to question their apocalyptic narrative of doom.”
Environmentalism is a religion, careening from one future ecological disaster to the next in search of money, political power, and legitimacy. Useful idiots are necessary to give their religion an air of legitimacy. The legitimacy of environmentalism is further aided when charlatans, whether scientists or celebrities, take up the cause - scientists crave the public adoration and celebrities are always searching for the next camera lens to take in their performance. Eventually, real science catches up to the charlatans, and the money, political power, and legitimacy withers away. So, then it's on to a new environmental disaster to exploit.
ReplyDeleteAnd, as long as I've been alive, the next ecological disaster de jure has been a staple of the curriculum in public schools. Give school kids the choice between being cooped up in a classroom or getting class credit for spending the day outside, and I fully expect those kids will decide being outside is more desirable.
Also...these are the same people that cry and moan all Winter long about the snow, ice and freezing temps. They talk about how they can't wait for warm weather to arrive. First chance they get, they'll all make a beeline for Florida during Spring Break. Yet, they dread a warming climate?
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