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Who Are You to Question Your Savior?
Daniel Cohen is a sociology professor at Berkeley who dresses exactly like he’s supposed to, as you can see. He’s also as progressive as he’s supposed to be. And he obviously views himself as a deep thinker, like he’s supposed to. Check out this Fox News story for a remarkable quote from Mr. Cohen (emphasis mine):
“It’s urgent for governments and social movements to start planning for millions of people to land in new places. Prepping Miami’s evacuation is a perfect starting point. Its residents are a multiracial, multinational, and multigenerational assemblage that spans the class spectrum. Tragically, many of them are already climate migrants—like Puerto Ricans displaced by recent hurricanes. If cities around the country were forced to plan how they’d integrate arriving Miamians into communities flush with public green investment, they’d get a head start on planning for climate migration generally. This would also trigger conversations about zoning for density, enshrining tenant rights, upgrading infrastructure, taxing the rich, building green banks, and battling racism and police violence. And yet, right now, the U.S. doesn’t have a just—or even functional—policy for immigrants and refugees. It’s still struggling to support Indigenous communities facing displacement from environmental calamities caused by colonial settlers. And the US has handled domestic movements for freedom terribly. In the last century, the emancipatory promise of the Great Migration was savagely curtailed by segregation and mass incarceration. Leading sociologists and scholars of environmental injustice called this racial violence a form of apartheid. Today, a surge in climate displacement threatens to deepen this eco-apartheid.“
Lordy. Ok, first of all, yes, I know he’s a sociology professor. Stop giggling. But still, I think his remarkable quote is a good illustration of how the left thinks. Er, believes. They are true believers convinced of an imminent apocalypse and they evangelize to the rest of us about our one hope at salvation: Our benevolent government needs to take control of all aspects of society, including “zoning for density,” “enshrining tenant rights” (note: not property owner rights), “taxing the rich” (note: meaning anybody who earns more money than sociology professors, darn them), “battling racism and police violence” (note: funny how he groups those things together), and so on.
Why do they keep pushing climate change, despite lack of evidence? Because it is the ultimate source of power for them. With climate change, they can do anything. Anything at all. If you’re trying to save the world, what limits your behavior? Nothing.
Anyone who questions our saviors is obviously evil, and should be ignored or destroyed.
I suspect that Mr. Cohen really does believe in man-made global warming. Although it doesn’t really matter. Because he understands its importance, and its centrality to his ultimate dream of complete leftist control of society.
Electric cars are terribly toxic for the environment due to their huge batteries. Windmills kill birds. Solar panels destroy previously green space. So we should argue against these things in an effort to protect the environment. But we should also argue against them to protect ourselves.
The Sky Is Falling crowd can seem amusing sometimes. So much of what they say is absurd and easily disproven. But they are not funny, and they are not harmless.
Climate change is a weapon. And you are the target.
The left’s sudden refreshing honesty on this point should not be ignored.
As Mr. Cohen so elegantly pointed out, this is a power grab. And they want it all. And if we accept their narrative, they can’t lose.
After all, who are you to question your savior?
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Somebody better tell these folks.
And fast!
As I understand it, mainstream climate scientists don’t believe global warming increases hurricanes. Though I am amateurish in my knowledge.
Pity the professor’s poor students.
Isn’t Florida just a big sand bar? This is a disaster waiting to happen, just like people living below sea level in New Orleans, tsunamis in Oregon, earthquakes in California, tornadoes in Oklahoma, and Lyme disease everywhere else. The opportunities are endless.
People like Professor Cohen and his fellow sociologists (natch) always say these things, using basically the same words and phrases in slightly different configurations. Do they all have a macro set up where they just hit F7 and whole paragraphs of leftspeak come out? It’s just so predictable and dreary.
That is the perfect distillation of academic jargon and how academics obscure meaning. His statement is full of buzzwords and catch phrases that really don’t mean anything. But it sounds good! Who could be against justice?
I think people are starting to catch on, though. After all, if everything is climate change, then it’s not really that big of a deal. People will start to ignore the morons crying wolf all the time.
Over population, global cooling, ozone depletion, and now climate change – some people seem drawn to overarching theories of man’s catastrophic effect on nature. For them, nature is not our dominion (that Judeo-Christian belief is rejected outright); we are its anathema. They are self-loathing and crave catharsis (especially yours), climate justice if you will, where everyone must accept that we are climate sinners. No sacrifice is too much (again, yours.)
The problem is real science. The earth’s climate is complex. It is highly doubtful that CO2 is much more than one infinitesimal footnote in an indecyphrable system of major self-mitigating factors including solar output, ocean currents, cloud cover, cosmic fallout and volcanic activity.
Nothing predicted by the climate changers has proven correct. The ice sheets have not changed since Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” was released. In fact, the Antarctic continent has grown colder and its ice, thicker. Last winter, the Arctic ice sheet exceeded the ice measured in 1989. Last winter was the coldest and snowiest on record in much of Alaska. Climate changes. It just does.
The Everglades is still under water. Everything south of Miami is built on old coral.
No.
It’s all that. But they are deadly serious. The EPA, in conjunction with the Departments of Energy, Housing and Transportation just published their action plan to combat climate change. It focuses on radically transforming the American way of life…
I find your lack of orthodoxy… disturbing.
They certainly aren’t a new phenomena. Christopher Columbus experienced one in 1502.
Kommisars are coming to America, if the Left gets their way. The Left will have an expert class (hybrids between politicians and experts) controlling all aspects of our lives. It will be like the Covid Mask police, who were empowered to shut down businesses and deny people participation in their own lives. You will not be allowed to question the Kommisars with your wrong think. They are “the science” and “the truth”.
Last I checked people were moving to, not from, Florida in large numbers. I guess excessive taxation is viewed by many as a more real threat than climate change . . . go figure.
““taxing the rich” (NOTE: meaning anybody who earns more money than sociology professors, darn them)”
That’s fantastic. I plan on using that and I’m going to credit you for at least the first few months.
“The Sky Is Falling crowd can seem amusing sometimes. So much of what they say is absurd and easily disproven. But they are not funny, and they are not harmless.”
This is something I think about a lot. How much ground have we ceded because upon hearing the latest New Thing bit of orthodoxy we assume that everybody sees it as the absurdity we do? I’m certainly guilty. You’ve seeded my next post.
I will question a “savior” who spews forth nonsense. And your language Professor conveys that your interest is something other than humanity coping with the alleged effects of “climate change” (whatever that is). But, let’s assume coming changes to climate will require people to change things. I have questions.
Among my questions:
Over what period of time are you claiming people will have to relocate?
From the assertion that many of south Florida’s current residents are “climate refugees”: How many? Over what period of time? Percentages as compared to refugees from other issues such as terrible government policies? Has “climate” been, or is it really expected to be, a major driver of human relocation?
As to the implied assertion that only government planning can help people relocate due to changing climate: How then have people for thousands of years successfully make their own decisions about how to cope with climate and other environmental changes, without formal government programs and wordy pronouncements from sociology professors? That humans have been, for many thousands of years, been adapting lifestyles and moving around for any number of different reasons, including changes to local environments, suggests that humans are capable of doing so in the future. And will probably do it more effectively than some group of eggheaded government officials and academics, as it is impossible for those government officials and academics to have as much information applicable to the personal circumstances of all those people as the people themselves have.
Article 5 convention needs to trim this abuse of power.
Sociology is the slut of the sciences.
Sociology is not an ology.
Back in the dark ages, myself and my intellectual peers (damning with faint praise) “saved up” the sociology electives with the goal of having all sociology courses in our fourth year, preferably in the last semester when no one wanted to do pretty much anything. Thanks to this strategy, I pretty much learned nothing for my tuition dollar towards the end before (finally) graduating.
Social sciences….
What’s the saying? No subject with “science” in the course name is?
If it doesn’t require calculus…
Or at least math. ;)
(Disclaimer: I dropped out of college quickly and, I like to think, efficiently.)
Every year you didn’t go saved you tens of thousands of $
I was thinking about $999 a year in Hank’s day, but maybe not.
Not much more than that. ;)
No, was about $4-$6 k in then-year dollars, when $4k-6k got you a decent family sedan.
Amazing how many people keep moving to Florida, isn’t it? Almost as if they don’t believe the orthodoxy.
After all, most of the Netherlands is technically below sea level. That hardly stops human habitation.