Eschatology: a branch of theology concerned with the final events in the history of the world or of humankind. Robert Edward Gordon tells us about the eschatology of the Left
I am always amazed that people without the capacity to verify the climate data are so convinced that “climate change†— which used to be “global warming,†but had to be changed to accommodate the “Great Pause†— is real and catastrophic. Since most people cannot independently verify the science of climate change, then those whose political leanings favor anti-capitalist solutions will accept the “facts†as if they are as true as gravity.
Liberals are sheep, led by their political masters, and have been told to Believe in anthropogenic climate change, and that we’re all doomed. In order to forestall the doom, we must change the economic system to a Progressive/Marxist economy, and implement tons of rules, regs, and laws which restrict personal freedom, the freedom of private entities, and control of the economy. Of course, they all think this should happen to Other People, never themselves, and mostly refuse to change their own lives to match their talking points.
The Left need causes that necessitate unitarian government. As such, they are global universalists. They want universal health care, global government via the United Nations, a world without borders. Global climate change is a perfect totalizing umbrella to unite the world under a single, controlling, horrifying rubric of an Earth in jeopardy underwritten by the prestige, authority, and inaccessibility of high science. The truth is that the earth is a religion to the Left, and climate change is its eschatology — an end of the world scenario. It used to be global thermonuclear war. Movie after movie in the 1980s fabricated a readymade collective anti-reality that only Leftist politics of disarmament and a “new world built on the ashes of the old†could solve. But that needed to be changed after the fall of the Berlin Wall (another reason to hate Reagan). A new collective umbrella needed to be fashioned.
Calling it “unitarian government” is a nice way of discussing what Warmists, part of the Progressive/Leftist movement, want, namely, an authoritarian centralized government.
Why, hasn’t anyone ever wondered why Al Gore’s Earth in the Balance (1992) was released so shortly after the fall of Russian Communism? Indeed, its subtitle is “Forging a New Common Purpose.†Climate change skeptics are not denying that a legitimate scientific issue exists that humans need to grapple with, but the political aspirations of those promoting its purported catastrophic consequences, whose ideas and solutions for humanity just might actually end life as we know it. Food for thought.
Al Gore, and other leading Warmists, have made quite a bit of money pushing these notions, jet setting around the world, gathering acolytes, while demanding that the rest of us reduce our lifestyles. Food for thought.
