Sunday 9 June 2024
The Legacy
Gregory Vigil called Mr. Paramor a pessimist it was because, like other people, he did not know the meaning of, the term; for with a confusion common to the minds of many persons who have been conceived in misty moments, he thought that, to see things as they were, meant, to try and make them worse.
John Galsworthy - The Country House (1907)
It’s a common problem this, describe things as they are and numerous people think you are someone who would make things worse. Even the most obvious improvements to a current situation can be draped with this particular shroud before they ever see daylight.
It’s how Net Zero has been sold, and the whole climate catastrophe game. Once established as the authoritative narrative, any criticism is seen by believers as sceptics wanting to make things worse.
In that sense Net Zero is an extraordinary achievement in the engineering of human belief. A policy which will undoubtedly make life worse for millions of people is turned around such that those same people see its critics as wanting to make things worse.
It also explains how Net Zero is destined to fail, however its failure may be dressed up as modest success, which it probably will be. Once enough people grasp that proponents of Net Zero are the people trying to make things worse, then the switch may be unstoppable.
The legacy that people were indeed persuaded against their own interests, that stays.
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I read today that even woke New Zealand have lifted a ban on undersea oil-drilling. Presumably someone in government started making some simple predictions.
Sam - this is probably how it will be dumped, various measures which wind it in piecemeal such that Green criticism has to be piecemeal too.
The net zero scam has made far too many politicians and savvy 'energy' companies extremely wealthy...
Just invent an imponderable, and they'll make money from it, especially when one has a simple-minded, tax-paid broadcaster with its thick minions in tow!
I live in New Zealand and must say how heartened I am that the new government seems to be full of grown ups ,not childish lefty fantasists. The Prime Minister, Chris Luxon ran Air New Zealand successfully and having a business background knows how many beans make five.His coalition partners also seem to be of a rational and pragmatic nature and are not standing for any woke bullshit.
Scrobs - yes it's racketeering on a grand scale. We can cope with a few crooks and loons, but not on this scale.
John - we need people like that but as things are we aren't going to get them. The main parties don't appear to have anyone at all unless they are hiding somewhere. It's a desperate situation.
“It’s a common problem this, describe things as they are and numerous people think you are someone who would make things worse. Even the most obvious improvements to a current situation can be draped with this particular shroud before they ever see daylight.”
Quoting this immediately now, across the way.
James - good (:
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