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The Most Ridiculous Man in the World?
King Charles, whose personal carbon footprint is likely magnitudes greater than the sum of the carbon emissions of everyone who has ever posted on Ricochet.com kicked off the Irony Festival in Dubai (COP28) by declaring the “earth does not belong to us.” That is rather hypocritical considering how massive are King Chuck Windsor’s family land holdings. A big chunk of the earth actually is his. For a delightful take on this, see Brendan O’Neill’s Revenge of the Feudalists:
Imagine the brass neck it takes to pontificate to the plebs about their non-ownership of the Earth while you and your family sit atop vast tracts of land worth £1 billion. What the king should have said is: ‘The Earth does not belong to you.’
Rarely has the feudalistic streak in green politics been so fantastically exposed. Here we have a king of unimaginable wealth and unearned power flying by private jet to a tribal autocracy to wag his finger at the global masses over their eco-unfriendly behaviour.
The conference in Dubai is a gathering of many of the world’s largest carbon emitters, held in a country made rich through the sale of fossil fuels. Its ostensible purpose is to give policy grifters and subsidy seekers a platform to propose to make everybody else poorer.
In fairness, Charles is perhaps the perfect spokesman for the Anti-carbon cult. He is very rich and thus unlikely to be unemployed or otherwise adversely affected by catastrophic energy policies. He is not particularly bright nor well-informed in any depth. He advocates infeasible policies in response to nonsensical failed predictions. And he clearly enjoys the ego-boost of being an admired eco-warrior. In every respect, he personifies the movement.
I grew up thinking we should fear the rise of the next Stalin or Hitler when it turns out the most dangerous threat to our way of life is Bozo the Policymaker cheered by a horde of morons and frauds. Who saw that coming?
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:: raises hand ::
My wife calls King Charles a stuffy opinionated old man, not quite as polite as calling him eccentric. We have our own climate cultists that will determine what you will eat, the method you will use to prepare your food, how much heat you will be allowed to have in the winter. The list continues with how cool your home will be in the summer, how much power you will be allowed, when your lights will be on, and when they will be off. How far you will be allowed to travel.
Sometimes a wave displaying just one digit is therapeutic and has been well earned by the recipients.
There seems to be a correlation between the absence of talent/creativity/imagination and the desire to regulate and limit everybody else.
Could not agree more.
In their way, they are the beating heart of capitalism: middle management stifling those same traits leads to entrepreneurial tendencies.
“I say, meek people, I’ve some rather unfortunate news in regard to your inheritance.” – Supreme Governor of the C of E
Thanks for the link to the Spiked article. He’s quite right about the eco-totalitarians.
You guys are just jealous that you don’t have a classic Aston-Martin that can run on white wine, the practical solution that the world has been waiting for.
I keep wanting to give King Charles the benefit of a doubt, but every time the details of his pampered life get leaked, I get disgusted.
Perhaps he could at least forego having his pajamas and shoelaces ironed to save energy and help the planet.
Al Gore with a crown.
Shouldn’t he be out somewhere curing scrufula?
Chuck was always a climate echo nut, going back decades.
I had worried that when he took over from his staunchly non partisan mother, that he’d tarnishing the crown with partisan and divisive statements and policy advocacy.
I have to strongly disagree. We own the earth, I own my little chunk of it. The term “Tragedy of the Commons” comes from England, surely Chuck must know it.
The tragedy of the commons, is partly why socialism fails. Assets held in common for communal use, have no caretakers no one to police the use (or misuse) so properties held in common generally quickly fall into disrepair…
No, IF I own a BIG chunk of the earth, I’d take care of it.
It’s better if the dying vestiges of autocracy would shut their jabbering pieholes.
Charles is just a chubby-fingered old man, with no right to tell anyone how to live their lives, especially considering how he and his family have lived theirs.
The French are frequently wrong, but not always wrong.
I find myself using the therapeutic salute a lot these days. . . The intended recipients are on the other side of the screen, though, so my satisfaction is somewhat limited.
I agree with Charlie on modern architecture, though. . .
I have to confess that every time John Kerry opens his mouth, or Greta Thunberg hers, the pretentious twit that is King Charles rises a small notch in my estimation, ironed shoelaces and all.
The whole bloody lot of them, and the farrago of nonsense they spout, are deeply reminiscent of this:
For my money, the best moment at this year’s COP (stands for Conference of the Parties; I always thought it was something clever to do with the climate, but they don’t have even that much imagination), was when the President of the organization, Sultan al-Jaber, the Chairman of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, (talk about the fox in the henhouse) announced in a Q&A session that there was no “science” behind the move to phase-out fossil fuels in order to prevent the dreaded uptick in global temperature, and that doing so would drive humanity “back into caves.”
Awkward….
The twits are still trying to spin his message.
I think John Kerry gives him a run for his money.
This guy probably made them all spit out their vichyssoise:
Thank goodness! When I saw the headline, I was worried the post was about me . . .
I think he was forced to recant.
Everyone who attends these things, including the media sycophants, knows that it’s really about the world’s super rich hanging out together, feasting on obscenely expensive food, the most amazing swag bag on earth (I mean, Dubai! Come on!) and hookers waiting in their hotel rooms.
Literally.
That’s one billionaire’s private jet.
I was still quite young when I first heard Charles talk about modern architecture. I passionately agreed with what he had to say, and since that was really my first exposure to his thought, my first impression of the Prince was quite positive. It’s been downhill ever since, with the climate garbage sealing my low opinion. But he at least he was right about modern architecture.
Stopped clock and all that.
I have zero problem with billionaires throwing themselves a party and having a grand old time. It’s the preaching about how we all need to cut back on our consumption of energy that grinds my gears. It’s like having a conference where religious leaders demand celibacy, and they have an orgy every night.
That’s a great comparison.
I don’t even have a problem with the preaching (by the climate worshipers). The preaching is so ridiculous it’s easy for me to ignore. The problem is when someone with actual power over my life takes their preaching and does something (like issue a dictatorial government edict or persuades idiot legislators to pass a law) that actually impacts my life. And there’s just enough people with actual power over my life who will go along with the ridiculous preaching that the preaching is not entirely without risk. Such as requiring my wife and me to live apart to live celibately, or requiring me or my wife to wear a chastity belt in order to live together.
Unfortunately, that preaching overwhelms the masses, coming as it does from every vector of influence in the world.
So we have a vast majority influenced to believe this nonsense. Or, in the case of spineless Republicans, give lip service to it out of fear of the left.
Another indication that we need to begin that long march through the institutions that the left began in the middle of the last century.
They really want the Helicarrier from The Avengers, it even has more planes of its own that can launch and land!
Charles apparently has a whole fleet of ’em at his service.
Not to be pendantic, but. . .
If religious leaders were demanding celibacy, they’d be discouraging people from being married, in which case an orgy every night actually wouldn’t be technically hypocritical.
Now, if they were demanding chastity. . .
Thank you for saving me from having to be pedantic.