There was actually a brief time when members of the Cult of Climastrology advocate to not use alarmist language. There are still a few, including Michael “Robust Debate” Mann, who are not in favor of this. However, they are dinosaurs, relics of a bygone age, who have seen the climahysteria of what they’ve created pass them by
Extinction Rebellion has defended its use of ‘alarmist’ language, saying when it comes to forcing debate on climate change, ‘it works’.
In an interview with the BBC’s Andrew Neil, Extinction Rebellion spokesperson Zion Lights defended the organisation’s warning that billions of people would die in a relatively short time period due to global climate change or its founder’s suggestion that children would die in the next 10-20 years.
Quizzed on where the numbers had come from, she said: “We don’t know exact numbers and it’s a little bit concerning to focus just how many deaths – there will be deaths and mass suffering…â€
Andrew Neil at his best, forensically taking apart some of the alarmist scaremongering by Extinction Rebellion. Yes, we face some serious environmental challenges. But the world isn’t about to end. We should stop turning our kids into nervous wrecks. https://t.co/rCF7SarRQa
— Paul Embery (@PaulEmbery) October 9, 2019
“You’re scaring people with this rhetoricâ€, Neil told his interviewee, to which she replied: “I think there’s a danger of scaring people simply because we’re not taking it seriously enough and people are feeling really desperate that we’re heard on this and unfortunately alarmist language works which is why we’re discussing it right now.â€
Pushed on what Neil described as the organisation’s “apocalyptic predictions†and how much scientific backing they have, Lights said: “We’re not trying to use alarmist language, we’re listening to what scientists are saying and using language that is appropriate to the situation.â€
There are certainly a few scientists involved with the Cult of Climastrology who are Alarmists, but, most try and take a measured approach to their language of Doom. It’s typically those who are not doing the science who take the prognostications of doom and turn them in EVERYBODY PANIC!!!!!! Is it any wonder that so many nutters are proclaiming they have eco/climate anxiety when all they hear is utter doom? That we only have 12 years left to avert Doom?
The group said its members planned to “peacefully occupy and shut down” the airport’s terminal building from 9am on Thursday by lying, sitting or gluing themselves in front of the departure and arrival gates at the east London airport.
People should just step on them.
