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"Can’t you leftists understand? Mass death is good for you. Reject the woke
love of life! Welcome civilisational collapse! Watch it all burn, then dance in
the ashes! This, roughly speaking, is how the dismissal of climate action is
now being justified: the argument has shifted from science denial to outright
nihilism.
The new incendiary spirit is exemplified by that serial arsonist Allister
Heath, editor of the
Sunday Telegraph. In a column in the
Daily Telegraph
last week, originally titled “Britain can’t stop climate change. Scrap net zero
and embrace Mediterranean life”, he argued that “climate change is real” but
“the war against global warming has been lost”.
This is a classic progression among those who seek to prevent a shift away from
fossil fuels: first deny the problem, as the
Daily and
Sunday Telegraph
have done for many years, then accept the problem but claim it’s now too late
to act. If it
is too late, it’ll be in no small part because of the deniers.
So, Heath continued, we in Britain should “ditch the despicable con that is net
zero, and learn to cope with … a warmer, drier, more volatile Mediterranean
climate, if that is indeed to be our fate”.
Seeking to cut our emissions, he argued, shows that we suffer from an “advanced
case of suicidal empathy”. I’m not qualified to diagnose people, but as a
general rule, a lack of empathy, alongside callousness and an absence of guilt,
is a strong indicator of a psychopath. Yes, he continued, “there will be plenty
of losers, but it is pointless seeking to prevent the inevitable … Many in
Britain would enjoy the kind of warmer climate predicted by modellers”.
His timing was impeccable: extolling a Mediterranean climate just as the
Mediterranean region goes up in flames. Amid general derision on social media,
the editors changed the headline."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
