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Responsible Adults Should Be Ashamed
What is actually behind the whole Global Warming / Climate Change / Climate Crisis hysteria that is gripping the youth of the world can be summed up this way:
All governments embrace a narrative that will allow them to keep increasing taxes with virtually no push back from the poor old goose. After all, how can you possibly be opposed to saving the planet?
It is not surprising this can be sold to the impressionable youth who form opinions from tweets and other in depth forms of communication. It is also a noble cause to embrace by a generation that pretty much has no real compass or purpose for life.
Shameful Adult Driven Hysteria
Those adults who pretend to be leaders should hang their heads for the hysteria they are allowing to be whipped up in this youthful generation. People who are supposed to be leaders screaming an end to the planet in six to twelve years should be ashamed of themselves. They are acting totally irresponsibly for personal gain in the political arena.
Is the climate changing? It is always changing and has been since the ice age. Governments using this narrative to support increasing taxes offer no real plan that will reduce the consumption of fossil fuels which produce CO2 (which is NOT a pollutant), increased taxes at the pumps won't reduce consumption nor will it cause people to quit heating their homes. It will however give governments more and more tax dollars they can figure out how to spend.
At the same time keeping us distracted from how poorly we are actually being governed. Imagine a country as wealthy as Canada with a central government spending $355,000,000,000.00 annually and we still have pensioners making a choice between heat and food? More and more young people being lost to drugs and alcohol. A poorer and poorer working class that can't survive without a credit card and line of credit with the bank, and a car loan, and a first and sometimes second mortgage ............... why is that possible in such a wealthy land??
Never mind that, let's just focus on the climate boogeyman and people won't address the real issues facing Canadians.
It is an old fashioned notion we Canadians have relegated to the dust bin, but consulting with the One that created this place in the first place and giving Him place will solve all of the perils confronting mankind in this present hour.
Rather than resorting to that absurdity we will sooner consume Gore's KoolAid and wring our hands and whip up a hopeless youth with fear of impending doom.
It bears repeating:
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
Governments couldn't do this without the help of a compliant and complicit press. The press loves to run their own polls about the trust level of politicians but rarely cite independent polls of the public's trust in them. Most are nothing more but instruments of propaganda.
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