Here’s where the hard-left environmental movement always appears to end up; do as they say, or else.
They fill the newspapers with their dire warning, hysteria, fear mongering, and apocalyptic predictions. They overload you with end-times fantasies that are so far divorced from reality that you can’t help but begin to question whether they are capable of dealing with reality. All the while they claim to be basing their rhetoric in “science” and charge anyone who disagrees with them as being against some massive, overarching “consensus.”
Then when their house of cards starts to fall and they realize that reasonable people are not buying their tripe any longer, they start in with the threats and harassment.
David Suzuki delivered a scathing and powerful speech to a packed house at McGill Thursday night, calling on young people and business leaders to reverse the demise of ecology at the hand of shortsighted economic theory.
Suzuki, an award-winning Canadian scientist, environmentalist, and broadcaster, kicked off the McGill Business Conference on Sustainability by addressing the conference’s theme of “looking backward and moving forward.” …
He said we need to do more to look forward, as well. He cited a brochure from 1992 entitled “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity”, signed by over 600 of the world’s top scientists, that expressed the seriousness of modern threats to the environment.
“No more than one or a few decades remain before the chance to avert the threats we now confront will be lost and the prospects for humanity immeasurably diminished,” he read from the brochure. …
He urged today’s youth to speak out against politicians complicit in climate change, even suggesting they look for a legal way to throw our current political leaders in jail for ignoring science – drawing rounds of cheering and applause. Suzuki said that politicians, who never see beyond the next election, are committing a criminal act by ignoring science.
The interesting thing about their raving is that they must recognize that their power and influence is beginning to wane so they break out the threats to push the masses back into line. However, reasonable people are not falling for their threats that “the seas will rise 20 feet” any longer. (Even the most hard-core true believers had to admit that that claim from Gore’s move was completely overblown.) So instead of heading back to the drawing board and rethinking their game plan, admitting that the hysterical approach isn’t selling, and coming back with something more reasonable, they start to suggest we set up gulags for the “deniers.”
I believe the most appropriate term for this is ‘jumping the shark.’
“No more than one or a few decades remain” … before their doomsday bombs go off? And that was 1992? 1.5 decades have passed since this prediction, and what? Wouldn’t we at least see SOME sort of catastrophe unraveling before our eyes by now? Show me one. Just one!
These clowns are always using terms like “could,” “might,” and “someday” to cover their butts. Not one of their predictions has ever come true, and it’s now safe to say that their little scam has finally been exposed for what it is.
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