Well, the mask’s off, now. They’re not even pretending, any more: “climate change” is just the motte — the bailey is, and always was, a Marxist revolution.
Of course, plenty of us have been pointing that out, for years. But it’s one thing for we “right-wing conspiracy theorists” to say it, quite another for the high priestess of the Climate Cult herself to state it, clearly and unambiguously.
[Greta Thunberg] has announced that as well as tackling her usual area of climate action and awareness-spreading, she has now thrown her weight behind defeating the West’s “oppressive” capitalist system.
That would be the “oppressive” system that made her parents millionaires and allowed her to live a life of pampered luxury that would make even the Sun King blanch with envy.
Calling for a “system-wide transformation” at her book launch in London, she claimed that the world’s current “normal” – dictated by the people in power – has caused the climate breakdown.
She said: “We are never going back to normal again because ‘normal’ was already a crisis. What we refer to as normal is an extreme system built on the exploitation of people and the planet.
“It is a system defined by colonialism, imperialism, oppression and genocide by the so-called global North to accumulate wealth that still shapes our current world order.”
Gee, are there any of the far-left’s talking-points she forgot to tick off, there? Oops, she forgot to mention “gender”.
Just to prove that she’s no thinker, Thunberg peddled this tired old fallacy:
Ms Thunberg added: “If economic growth is our only priority, then what we are experiencing now should be exactly what we should be expecting.”
Except, who ever said that economic growth is our only priority? Even the founding father of capitalist economics, Adam Smith, was in fact a moral philosopher who posited his pro-capitalist arguments as moral choices.
With good reason:
Michael Shellenberger, an American author, posted on Twitter that the “whole capitalist system” Ms Thunberg referred to has led to larger food surpluses than at any point in history, average human life expectancy to rise from 30 to 70 and a drop in total deaths from natural disasters.
But, what am I saying? We’re dealing with an ignorant teenager (a tautology, I apologise) who’s only claim to fame is rigorously avoiding school for most of her adolescence.
People were quick to point out the political emphasis on social media, with one best-selling author saying “this is proof that Greta hates capitalism for reasons that have nothing whatsoever to do with climate change”.
The Telegraph
We might also suspect that it’s proof that she’s realised that her fifteen minutes ran out long ago, so she’s making a last, desperate grab for headlines.
If nothing else, Thunberg is just further proof of Thomas Sowell’s observation that:
“The offspring of privilege have dominated the leadership of Marxist movements from the days of Marx and Engels… but the crucial point is not privilege, as such, but the insulation from responsibility that provides, particularly during youth.”
