RhodyPatriot
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Normally I don't post excerpts from exceedingly long articles to summarize a point.
But, in this particular case?
It's well justified - because it's true.
The Left is now the religious vote.
The Left is now the Moral Majority.
And climate theology is quite profitable these days.
But, in this particular case?
It's well justified - because it's true.
In the past, witches, likely including those who were accused of raising ‘hurtfull weather’, were sometimes fitted with a ‘scold’s bridle’ – a metal contraption that enclosed the head and which contained a muzzle that fitted into the mouth with a spike that would compress the witch’s ‘vicious tongue’. Now, being more modern, we prefer to propose mere criminal sanctions against those who possess a ‘deceitful tongue’.
Paul Krugman of the New York Times describes climate-change denial as ‘a form of treason – treason against the planet’. The Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University openly ponders whether climate-change denial should be criminalised. Yes, ‘free speech is one of the most treasured rights in Western democracy’, it says in its discussion of a Norwegian professor’s suggestion that climate-change denial is a crime, but sometimes we make ‘exceptions for points of view which [may be regarded] as particularly destructive and evil’.
Evil. What a telling word. As clear a confirmation as one could ask for that the discussion of climate change has been hyper-moralised, turned from a practical matter of how to improve our environment into a crusade against the malevolent forces whose deceitful tongues and activities allegedly wreak havoc upon the weather.
Climate change, the idea that humankind is having a negative impact on the planet, and what’s more that there will be an extinction-level event if we do not radically change our behaviour, has become one of the most feverishly guarded orthodoxies of our age. You query it at your peril. It is one of the few beliefs for which an entire new grammar of censorship has been created to protect it from interrogation.
Once again, we encounter the Orwellian instincts of the new elites, where they seek to change language as a means of reshaping thought.
The climate witch trials
Questioning the climate-change narrative is now the ultimate form of heresy.
www.spiked-online.com
The Left is now the religious vote.
The Left is now the Moral Majority.
And climate theology is quite profitable these days.