Monday, September 5, 2022

Co-Founder of Greenpeace Asks "Is Climate Change Fake?"

"We’re not in an energy crisis, we’re in a stupidity crisis."

There will be people who hate this, but my take is that it ought to be good news to know that global warming is not going to wipe us all out. Here's a blurb describing the content of this podcast. I have added a few quotes from Eric Hoffer afterword.

To be honest, I generally dislike watching videos longer than five or ten minutes. This is much longer than that, but you'll be rewarded if you even listen to only part of it.

The title is a hotlink to the video.

Greenpeace's Ex-President - Is Climate Change Fake? - Patrick Moore

Modern Wisdom Podcast 373

Patrick Moore is the Co-Founder & Ex-President of Greenpeace and an author.

Climate change has been at the forefront of political, cultural and social battles for the last 40 years. Patrick had a front-row seat as he organized the environmental movement's first ever major demonstration, but now he has some real problems with the direction it's heading in.

Here are Moore's thoughts on humanity's impact on global warming temperatures, his opinion on Extinction Rebellion and Greta Thunberg, what people mean when they say we've only got 50 harvests left, whether we should be worried about rising sea levels and much more...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5K5i5Wv7jQ&t=1158s

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QUOTES FROM ERIC HOFFER'S THE TRUE BELIEVER

"When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the the four horsemen of the Apocalypse."

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"A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business."

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"Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life."

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This last quote brings to mind Orwell's 1984 in which so the concept of Hate Week was created and promoted. Interesting that Hoffer book was published in the same period of time as Orwell's. Both authors had a finger on the pulse of cultural trends.

Today is Labor Day in the U.S. What are you laboring for?