The Last ‘Climate Emergency’ Rally
Last week, an organisation calling itself the ‘National Emergency Briefing’ held an event at Central Hall in Westminster, near Parliament. Boasting “an invite-only audience of around 1,250 politicians and leaders from business, culture, faith, sport and the media”, the rally subjected attendees to three hours of bog-standard hectoring about the ‘climate crisis’. But in the face of the climate consensus’s collapse, is this spectacle going to mark the point at which the Establishment’s environmentalists regrouped, or does it better symbolise the green agenda’s rather pathetic and painful death throes?
The central claim of the broader green movement for the last decade has been the notion of a ‘climate emergency’. It was an attempt to mobilise a mass movement to support the by then well-established intergovernmental climate policy agenda which thus far lacked public support. The ‘civil society’ beneficiaries of the Green Blob aimed to bridge the gap – in fact a democratic deficit – between governments’ policy agendas and the public’s continuing disinterest. The epitome of this development in the UK was the creation of Extinction Rebellion (XR). According to the social theories developed by those who motivated the likes of XR and Greta Thunberg, once the ‘truth’ of climate change had been explained to the public, they would rise up and work together to ‘tackle the emergency’ in the way that Brits, especially Londoners, are said to have come together during WWII to confront the Nazis.
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The coming Pole Shift is the most important issue to worry about.
Or a Carrington Event.
I have outlived over 70 end of world predictions. Sooner or later I hope people will see sense and see climate catastrophe as just another one of the frequent utterances from the Prophets of Doom.
GlobaloneyBS whatevering.
Follow the money.
Anti-science, anti-human.
A cult of half wits, corrupts, basement dwellers, the uneducated, the lost, those who need a religion and the green nazi.
In 1988 they proclaimed the end within 10 years.
July 2007 King Koran III proclaimed the same.
I almost pity anyone stupid enough to join such a movement.
“National Emergency Briefing” what a crap name! What about “Your National Emergency Briefing”
Perhaps they could merge with “Your Party”? Might be some similarities there, after all.
If it is an “emergency” why has the IPCC itself said earlier this year that “worst case scenario’s from our climate models are very unlikely to occur?”——If the IPCC, where all of the climate change dogma comes from don’t think there is a climate emergency then why do these silly activists think there is one? The reason is that in order to get their own way there has to be urgency. There has to be a “crisis”, and we all must now accept that natural weather events are no longer natural, but caused by us, even though the link between emissions and weather events is unclear, which even the IPCC have admitted. If emissions can be linked to floods, then who can question climate change when people are dying in floods? The same goes for storms and wildfires. If anyone disagrees then they are painted as “cruel”, “ignorant of the science” and greedy people unwilling to give up their luxuries for the sake of the children and grandchildren etc etc.——- It is moral blackmail. The public who are coerced into believing there is a climate crisis think this has all to do with “science” when infact they only ever get… Read more »
I bet my “MP” was there, I just bet she was 🤪
A National Emergency Briefing? Which Nation? Surely the ‘it’s nearly too late’ message needs a wider audience? Why not start with Russia and then move on to China and then India? By the time you’ve got their leaders properly alarmed there will be a new president of the USA and you can alarm him/her/them/it. After that the European Commission (forget the parliament or national ‘leaders’) and then move on to the little nations.
But cults always target those experiencing vulnerability first. The Western world is ripe for exploitation, but even there the audience of true believers is limited.
Perhaps the best way of looking at the ‘National Emergency Briefing’ is as an ‘indulgence’? Or at least the attempted rescue of indulgences by a nasty cult?
So if you want to end the sale of climate change indulgences look for the major sources of abuse and corruption. I’m sure you will find them – if only in the continued employment of those signed up to supporting alarmism.
“According to the social theories developed by those who motivated the likes of XR and Greta Thunberg, once the ‘truth’ of climate change had been explained to the public, they would rise up and work together to ‘tackle the emergency’ in the way that Brits, especially Londoners, are said to have come together during WWII to confront the Nazis.” The Marxist theory of false consciousness, that the masses had been deceived by the capitalists in order to exploit them, and once this was explained to the prolatetiate, the scales would fall away from their eyes and they would put aside self-interest, rise up and unite to replace capitalism with Socialism for the good of the Collective. Marx believed industrialised Britain would be the first, its population so exploited by the capitalist Industrial Revolution the people would be outraged once the truth told. In fact the opposite happened. The proles saw they had never had it so good, as their prosperity had increased to hitherto unimaginable levels. As for the Blitz spirit, the coming together – the “emergency” was evidenced by bombs dropping on them. However that had been preceded by the “Phoney War” when despite “emergency” declared, nothing actually happened… Read more »
Let me tweak that NEB letter for you…
“The
rapidly escalating climate and nature crises arepresent Labour government is set to make the UK increasingly unrecognisable and dangerous, withextreme weather events,the risk of food and energy shortages, price shocks, economic instability and rising geopolitical risks.”There. That’s the real threat to the UK.
And it’s not a risk – that’s an issue playing out right now sadly… until we can get rid of them
They are basically just saying, ‘give us some money’
These fanatics never ask questions about China running its electric cars on COAL. Over 55% of China’s electricity is from its 1100+ coal-fired power stations.
China Chinese companies to build 700 coal plants in and outside China – MINING.COM
China Building Hundreds Of Coal-Fired Power Plants Abroad : NPR
Why no demonstrations outside China’s embassy? It’s not hard. Nobody’s going to shoot you.
Why no UN resolutions condemning China? Why no CALL for UN resolutions condemning China?
Oh, we know why. China (and India, Africa, Vietnam & the rest of the Global South) are your “dirty little secret” you want to sweep under the carpet.