Thread by @CantillonCH

A disparate cluster of interests -some venal, some ideological, some quasi-religious- have found common expression in the issue of #Climate™️. Too much, intellectually, financially, emotionally, politically has been sunk into it to allow for honest discussion.
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https://twitter.com/heatpolicyrich/status/1666337089170882562

Even minor scepticism or attempts at technical or economic discussion start by begging the question of whether ANY of this game is worth the candle; all include the Insh’allah of “...while climate change is accelerated and we must (!) address the problem at once...”
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If we start from the false premise that the threat is both pressing and existential, then obviously we narrow the choice to a menu of ‘solutions’ which involve vast expenditure, radical social upheaval, and severe limitations on personal liberty.
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That immediately opens the way for rent-grubbers, technocratic dreamers, Totentanz nihilists, and Messiahs of both Right & Left to ride the anti-#carbon train to civilisational upheaval.
If we supposedly face utter doom, we are left to arguing the small change in a-
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-multi-$trillion bill, we can evidently not work patiently to devise better ways of doing things but must grasp at the first Ersatz alternative, no matter how infeasible or inefficient it is; no matter how great the OTHER costs to the environment, much less the pocketbook.
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That is indeed a process by which, as a fellow commentator here astutely noted, the ground is made fertile for all manner of false prophets, snake-oil salesmen, indulgence sellers, cranks, and schemers to spring up and choke the life from our bounteous civilisation.
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I have often sourly quipped that we have only X years to save us, who live on the planet, from those who never cease to wail that we have “X years to save The Planet™️”.

Sadly, that interval X is becoming progressively and alarmingly shorter.
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Those leading this rush to ruin are also becoming emboldened as all policies converge on this one illusory goal of ‘salvation’. They are becoming more radical, less tolerant of dissent, less sensitive to popular discontent -C19 taught them well how THAT could be overriden!
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Soon, the steps being taken will be well nigh irreversible, the diktats drastically shrinking our horizons irrevocable.

The Dystopia of being herded, monitored, rationed, artificially nourished, censored - all within a digitally-fenced Gulag/Ghetto is no longer only sci-fi.

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