CLIMATE CHANGE: THE HOAX THAT COSTS US $4 BILLION A DAY

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” Upton Sinclair.

The global climate change industry is worth an annual $1.5 trillion, according to Climate Change Business Journal. That’s the equivalent of $4 billion a day spent on vital stuff like carbon trading, biofuels, and wind turbines. Or — as Jo Nova notes — it’s the same amount the world spends every year on online shopping.

But there’s a subtle difference between these two industries — the global warming one and the online shopping one. Can you guess what it is?

Well, it’s like this. When you go to, say, Charles Tyrwhitt to buy a nice, smart shirt, or Amazon to buy the box set of Game of Thrones, or Krazykrazysextoy.com to replace your girlfriend’s worn out rabbit, no one is holding a gun to your head. You are buying these things of your own free volition either for yourself or for someone you love. You have paid for them, out of your own money, because you have made the calculation that they will make your life that little bit better. Better than it would, say, if you’d kept the money in your bank account or spent it on something less desirable — a novelty dog poo ornament, say, or a handknitted sweater with Jimmy Savile’s face on it and “I HEART paedos” picked out in gold lamé lettering.

When, on the other hand, you buy stuff from the climate change industry, you have no choice in the matter whatsoever. It’s already priced into your taxes, your electricity bills, the cost of your petrol, the cost of your airfare, the cost of every product you buy and every service you use. It is utterly inescapable, this expenditure. Yet unlike your online shopping — which, remember, costs roughly the same as you spend each year on the climate change industry — you get precisely nothing in return.

No, it’s worse than that. You get less than nothing. You get stuff forced on you that you really don’t want: bat-chomping, bird-slicing eco-crucifixes looming on your horizon, keeping you awake, trashing your property values; fields of solar panels where they used to grow wheat or you used to walk your dog; prissy missives from your local council expecting you to be grateful for the fact that now you’ve got to separate your trash into seven different recycling bags rather than the previous five, and that they’re only going to collect your rubbish once a fortnight instead of once a week; teachers filling your kids’ heads with junk science propaganda; free parking slots for electric cars you don’t own but which you subsidise for richer friends who do; feel-bad nature documentaries about how it’s all your fault that this stuff “may” soon disappear; energy-saving lightbulbs that take your nocturnal home back to the kind of sepulchral gloom Western civilisation thought it had bade farewell to in the 1890s; the Prius, the car which recalls the style and comfort of the cars the fall of the Berlin Wall was supposed to have ended; yawning gaps where used to grow the woods which have been chopped down and chipped to create biomass for burning in power stations which used to run more cheaply and efficiently on coal…

Then there are the people who benefit financially from this $1.5 trillion climate change industry: the carbon traders; the dodgy academics; the vulture capitalists pecking on the bloated carcass of renewable energy; the environmental NGOs; the environmental consultancies who specialise in giving “expert” testimony at planning appeals, arguing on the most spurious grounds that no the bats and birds in this area aren’t going to be affected by this new wind turbine they’re going to be happier than ever no really; the sustainability officers at every level of local government; the green advisers attached to every business who advise them how to reduce their CO2 count; the PR companies that specialise in green awareness; Dale Vince….

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[Webster]

*dusts thread off*

As I've long said, climate change is a reality, whether we like it or not....

https://savingnature.com/climate-change/

 

[Scarlet Rose]

One side point which stood out to me from the quote is the notion that our consumerist lifestyles and culture are voluntary. I would be skeptical of this claim on a few counts. Firstly given the vast amounts of resources spent on marketing each year. With figures suggesting that worldwide spending on marketing in 2021 exceeded $780 billion. Not to mention all the psychological research which has been conducted to enable capitalists to become more adept at manipulating people into consuming lifestyles. Or even how history has shown that people have had to be forced, into changing to consumerist cultures. Even in England, one of the birthplaces of capitalism, this had to be done through force. Such things like closing off what had been public spaces. The consumerist lifestyle is also incredibly and intricately tied up with our world system. On so many levels the world system creates conditions and circumstances for consumerism to flourish while also depending on said consumerism for its ongoing survival.

The consequences of climate change are going to be absolutely devastating. They will be wide-ranging in their scope and their scale will be immense. Those who will suffer the most are going to be those who have benefited least from the world system as it is. Their relations to the means of production, their geographical location and their general marginalized situation will make them experience the worst of climate changes ills. This holds true when comparing countries with each other and also holds true within countries when comparing social groups. Here in New Zealand Maori are said to be the worst hit group when it comes to climate change. Industries where they are more predominant are most in danger of collapsing. They predominantly live in vulnerable locations. Their well being on social indicators has them set to be most vulnerable when it comes to the consequences of climate change too.