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Between scares Too bad there already is an SQoTD for today, but here’s a classic bit I’ll copy and past for you anyway:
We are almost getting to the situation where we will be seeing unemployed environmentalists walking the streets. As with unemployed actors who describe themselves as “between jobs”, one might expect them to admit to being “between scares”.
That’s the EU Referendum man, Richard North, ruminating about how the environmental debate is now going quiet, and about how the forces of darkness are now going to have to find themselves a different line of bullshit to work with. “Biodiversity” won’t nearly suffice. How true. Although, as he’d be the first to remind us (I found that link in this), “climate” money is still being thrown around like there’s no tomorrow, and if that carries on there probably won’t be. Anyway … as I was saying. Between scares.
That phrase could really get around. It deserves to.
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Ah. I see that all I needed to do was just not call it a Samizdata quote of the day, but otherwise carry on as usual. Oh well.
The “enless cuts” could as well.
That is great Brian!
Another one that we chatted about at the LA conference: get the Greens to support honest money because it is necessary “for a sustainable future”!
A riff on biodiversity that may pick up some of the slack is “ecosystem services impacts.” Provides some new buzzwords to inject life in the old retreads of climate change, industrial activity, GMO’s and land use change.
I have yet to see bioterrorism take off. It has been relatively moribund.
Someone clearly needs to inform the BBC, who are still pushing climate change for all it’s worth. Only this morning they explained to me that the ‘unprecedented’ number of tree diseases sweeping the country was an effect of climate change.
We had a local dickhead on the ABC waffling on how there were more crows in town nowadays because of….. global warming………
No talk back or I would have queried what impact he thinks making guns “verboten” in Australia has had?
I used to shoot them all the time as a kid (we had chooks and the crows were bastards), and every 2nd kid I knew had a rifle of some sort.
It was a brave black avian that showed its head near any population centre back in the day…
But this is now joining the rest of the holy cannon law that makes up “proof of climate change”..
I suspect that the next big thing will be “acidification of the oceans”, because it can be blamed on man-made CO2 and therefore used to protect all the funding that has been thrown at “global warming”. Gotta keep the gravy train rolling!
The “between scares” line is good, but the truth that really needs to be spread is that environmentalists keep changing their scare stories while consistently demanding the same responses – an end to economic growth, austerity and rationing, etc. The fact that the alleged problem keeps changing while the proposed solution does not proves that all these scares are just a pretext for imposing a kind of miserable hair-shirt socialism.
Watermelonism will be finished when the general public assume that each new scare story is just another lie being told in pursuit of a political agenda. That’s the goal to focus on.
Andrew:
Didn’t we already have the “acid rain” scare 30 years ago?