It's one thing for our glorious global elite to pat itself on the back as it mobilizes the world to save the climate by eliminating CO2 production. It's another thing when climate change politics start to hit ordinary folks at their jobs and in the pocket book and at the pump.
The Turow open-cast lignite mine is one of many production sites in Poland. But the citizens of the small town are angry. They demonstrate because they fear for their jobs.
Wow, imagine that! Innocent Poles are losing their jobs. Why, I am "literally shaking" as the Climate Nazis reenact the 1939 invasion of Poland.
From the point of view of many governments, the most difficult plan is the inclusion of gasoline and heating in the EU’s new emissions trading scheme. As a result, prices would rise steadily in the years to come.
Well. Of course the French gilets-jaunes of a couple of years ago were protesting -- mostly peacefully -- against higher gasoline prices. And now the EU courtiers are worried that the manifestations -- that is French for protest -- may spread across Europe.
Even a humble college student, Alexander Butler, from where I went to Uni at Leeds in England half gets the point. He says that the way to fight climate change is not the authoritarian way of China, with top-down enforcement of ruling class power.
Without freedom of expression or freedom of the press, an active civil society cannot flourish, and meaningful debate regarding climate change remains stagnant and controlled by censorship.
Actually, young sonny, we don't have a "meaningful debate regarding climate change" because anyone that disagrees with the global ruling-class orthodoxy is branded a "climate denier." Now I don't know that I call it "authoritarian" to marginalize critics of climate science as deniers. The word "denier" came into use as a way to slap down critics of the narrative of 6 million Jews killed in Nazi death camps in World War II.
And that's not the way science is done, anyway. Science, ever since Kant, has been about battling theories. And the basic theory of the universe has changed about three times since Kant invented "critique" in Königsberg over two hundred years ago.
So how come we are all bound and determined that climate science is all buttoned up, shut up peasants?
I will tell you. Because the climate change movement is not really a movement. It is flat out Climate Imperialism, the global elite conquering and looting the ordinary people of the world so they can build big climate pyramids all over the world to their greater glory.
Look, in the old days, rulers were celebrated for their glorious empires, and nobody cared. I've been reading Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain that is built upon the fanciful notion that a bunch of bums from the Trojan War traveled to Britain and started up the glorious kings and histor of Britain. And boy, did all those kings make war and loot and plunder and put everyone they defeated to the sword! Even the Sacred King Arthur, he of the Knights of the Round Table and Queen Guinevere and the Holy Grail, is represented battling around in France just like the Angevins at the time of Katherine Hepburn playing Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Then there were the glorious Portuguese and Spanish Empires looting the world. And the British Empire, semi looting and semi trading, all over the world.
Then we had the Soviet Empire, mostly looting the Russian people, and for what?
And the American Empire, making the world safe for democracy. How's that going, experts?
And, up next, the Xi Dynasty in China. I bet that will be a doozy.
Hey I know. Let's declare a crisis from an overabundance of plant food, carbon dioxide, created by Trump Car Parade drivers and SUV drivers driving around needlessly. And let's tax and spend and kick the people out of their trucks and SUVs and make them travel in nice trains right of the 19th century. And build a glorious Woke Climate Empire all over the world to the greater glory of the global educated class.
See, if you are a ruling class, what you really, really need is to fight and preferably win some big war to put you in the history books. Bill Clinton at one point regretted that there was no war on his watch. Because history.
Look, the nasty truth about government is that unless there is a war you are just a middle-man negotiating with various special interests to see who gets the loot in the next $1 trillion infrastructure bill. It's really rather low-rent.
But imagine the glory of saving the world from climate change! It would be World War I and World War II put together. And the Big Man that presided over the whole magnificent war to end all wars would go down in the history books and kick Franklin D. Roosevelt off his catbird seat.
But if the whole climate change thingy is a grift, and the science is baloney, and the world isn't heating up and in fact is getting greener, and anyway CO2 isn't the main climate driver, well, fuggedaboudit, the climatistas will get to write the history, so shut up peasant.
But I do think we need to rename global warming climate change as Climate Imperialism. The left has invented a whole peaceful protest full of pejoratives suitable for hurling at Imperialists. So we could just turn the pejoratives on the Climate Oppressors, the vile climate Nazis. And show why they are Literally Hitler. And if you don't agree you are literally a Denier.
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