OUT ON A LIMB: Climate Activism Isn’t About the Planet. It’s About the Boredom of the Bourgeoisie.
The downfall of capitalism will not come from the uprising of an impoverished working class but from the sabotage of a bored upper class. This was the view of the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1942. Schumpeter believed that at some point in the future, an educated elite would have nothing left to struggle for and will instead start to struggle against the very system that they themselves live in.
Nothing makes me think Schumpeter was right like the contemporary climate movement and its acolytes. The Green movement is not a reflection of planetary crisis as so many in media and culture like to depict it, but rather, a crisis of meaning for the affluent.
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Even supposed grass-roots movements like “Just Stop Oil” or “Last Generation” (of “tomato soup on paintings” fame) are in fact funded by millionaires, like Aileen Getty, the granddaughter of legendary oil-tycoon Jean Paul Getty, and the Climate Emergency Fund.
Just like Kerry, Ehrlich, and these other groups are not really interested in solving the problem of climate change—for example, promoting research in technologies like nuclear energy, carbon capture technologies, and means of adaptation. Instead, they with to elevate their struggle to an ersatz-religion that allows them to simultaneously enjoy their wealth and lecture the rest of the world from a position of moral superiority.
In contrast, here is an extremely well-reasoned and explained pushback to the woke disease: Konstantin Kisin absolutely positively OWNS ‘woke’ youth fighting #climatechange and BOOYAH (watch).
This is the first time we’ve come across Konstantin Kisin who is a Russian/British comedian/podcaster/speaker, etc. and wow … he really did a fantastic job of putting the woke youth in their place when it comes to climate change.
And it’s not just what he says, but how he says it.
Watch:
Brilliant speech addressed to our ‘woke’ youth fighting #climatechange by Konstantine Kisin. pic.twitter.com/mFS8w0t2ip
— Brandon Taylor Moore (@LetsGoBrando45) January 14, 2023
UPDATE: What is this “British” being referenced above? So Wrong So Long. CBS rings in the new year with serial doomsayer Paul Ehrlich. “Ehrlich also thought it was even money that England would no longer exist in the year 2000, but at the dawn of 2023, England is still there. ‘Perhaps Ehrlich’s biggest mistake,’ according to Harsanyi, ‘was living long enough to be proven wrong dozens of times.’ That is good to know, but there’s more going on here than Ehrlich’s failures and media malpractice.”