Environmentalism, or what we used to call Conservation in saner days, has become, for all intents and purposes, a religion. There is little difference between the fire and brimstone sermons of fundamentalist preachers and what’s emerging from the mouths of the spokesmen of today’s increasingly popular faith: The Green Movement. I hasten to insist that I’m not denigrating religion. I’m merely pointing out that we need to call and treat worship of the environment and Mother Earth what it is, and push back on the nonsense that it’s science.
As with most subjects, the First Law of Experts (which see) applies here. I don’t need to produce a list of all the PhD’s and world-renowned “authorities” who can cite irrefutable, documented, empirical evidence that climate change is man-made and that we are going to use up Mother Earth’s resources within ten years (that goal post, by the way, has been moved at least five times in just MY lifetime!), and that we must immediately ban the use of all fossil fuels, stop eating meat so we can destroy our flatulent cow population, etc.
Could we all check the hysteria for a minute and remember what we were taught in 6th grade science about the scientific method and photosynthesis?
Two of the principles underlying the scientific method are reproducibility and repeatability – a hypothesis or theory doesn’t even become a tendency, much less a law, unless the theory can be tested in a controlled setting. Know any environmentalists who’ve been able to prove any of their “settled science” using the scientific method? Of course not. What they’ve done is “interpret data”. But not only is the data crap, a lot of it has been falsified or just been made up. Again, I won’t enumerate all the environmental data scams that have been foisted upon us.
As for “carbon footprints” and all the nonsense about reducing CO2 emissions. Remember what our 6th grade science teacher taught us happens to plants at night? Oh yes…in photosynthesis they TAKE IN carbon dioxide and produce OXYGEN…kind of important for life on Earth. Oh, and “Greenhouse Gas”? Guess what is far and away the most prevalent one. Water Vapor! Sigh…and that ain’t man made.
True believers can ignore the scientific method of course and forget 6th grade science because they absolutely, fundamentally BELIEVE what their environmentalist, Earth-worshipping prophets and pastors have taught them. They can feel it in their bones. They’ve seen it on Insta-gram; they’ve heard it from Al Roker who has given his testimony of having “witnessed it first-hand”, and they have had it confirmed by the most authoritative source of all, Twitter!
Not just the First Law of Experts but also the law that “He who has the loudest megaphone wins in the court of public opinion,” also applies. One of the huge downsides of the Internet and the age of Social Media has been the placing of 1,000 watt amplifiers in the hands of so many fringe lunatics. With the right catch phrases and the most outrageous attention grabbers, United Church of Earth congregants have fanned out to proselytize and saturate the airwaves.
And so as we must with so many insidious movements today, let’s follow the money. Oh wait, it’s darn near impossible to do that! Many investigative journalists and truth-seeking organizations have tried. What we get as a result of their painstaking effort is a spiderweb on top of a patchwork of money and influence connections that all reveal the same m.o.: power hungry politicians and megalomaniacal globalists bent on control receiving “just a sliver” of the money flying around, much of it extorted or extracted from businesses or the public from influence-peddling (think the Clinton Foundation). They’ve succeeded in making even Mother Earth a victim, and if you’ll just text $10 to them, they’ll fight those nasty corporations and people on the Right who are exploiting her!
I urge everyone to take 3 minutes to read the Heritage Foundation commentary that puts it far better than I can. It can be found here.
The Green Movement, Climate Change, Environmentalism…whatever you call it… listen to its sermons, read its writings, contemplate and ponder what its acolytes are testifying at your own risk, and use your own judgment as to whether you’ll put money in its Church donation tray on Sunday, or give it to, say, The Gary Sinise Foundation. I’ll go with Gary Sinise.
