*POLICY* failure, not climate change.
It is the Katrina fallacy, again, which lets idiot hacks like George Monbiot blame the deaths in Germany on journalists he dislikes -- to use them as moral blackmail against criticism. Ideology in motion.
It is the Katrina fallacy, again, which lets idiot hacks like George Monbiot blame the deaths in Germany on journalists he dislikes -- to use them as moral blackmail against criticism. Ideology in motion.
https://twitter.com/NoTricksZone/status/1416431416955609089
The more that *policy* failures are blamed on climate change (the Katrina Fallacy), the more natural disasters will claim human lives.
It shifts the emphasis of public debate away from politicians, governments, planners and engineers, to the public, which must be constrained.
It shifts the emphasis of public debate away from politicians, governments, planners and engineers, to the public, which must be constrained.
There is no such thing as a natural disaster from extreme weather.
They are all policy failures, or failures of engineering and maintenance (e.g. Katrina in NO).
They are made symbols of climate change by the very people who pretend that the fault is your behaviour.
They are all policy failures, or failures of engineering and maintenance (e.g. Katrina in NO).
They are made symbols of climate change by the very people who pretend that the fault is your behaviour.
A block of apartments falls down... Climate change.
Floods in Europe... Climate change.
Wildfires destroy houses... Climate change.
Each a prima facie case of bad policy, bad planning, or bad engineering. But each posited within minutes as a prima facie case of climate change.
Floods in Europe... Climate change.
Wildfires destroy houses... Climate change.
Each a prima facie case of bad policy, bad planning, or bad engineering. But each posited within minutes as a prima facie case of climate change.
It is *ideology* that makes the leap of faith, away from what is known and can be known and discovered and proven, to what can only be imagined, and never proved, never known, and never discovered.
The climate change story has gone around the world before even the bodies have been pulled from the wreckage. Ecstatic idiot green pundits pore over the footage. "SEE -- IT'S CLIMATE BREAKDOWN!!!"
"But Ben, these things are happening much more often!"
They aren't. A century ago, you would be unlikely to have heard about a block of apartments collapsing in the USA, or floods in Europe.
They aren't. A century ago, you would be unlikely to have heard about a block of apartments collapsing in the USA, or floods in Europe.
Nobody was recording databases of disasters a century ago. Even if you did hear about some remote village being swept into the sea in a short paragraph in a paper, you would not internalise the story, to make it part of your political worldview, the way people do today.
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