Harry Palmer
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
Aldous Huxley
My firm of financial advisers have sent me an ‘update’ email. They proudly announced, without consulting their customers, that they’re going big on ‘ESG’ (Environmental, Social and Governance) investing and ‘sustainability’. This apparently means not investing in companies that don’t comply with green ideals, scrutinising the operation of companies they invest in on my behalf and, if not satisfied, no doubt seeking to introduce policies to combat ‘climate change’ or ‘global warming’ in company day-to-day operations. And they’ve formed a ‘team’ from their staff to do the heavy lifting.
Where did the idea for this top-down telling of its client base what’s good for it, and then deliberately, without having received any permissions, reducing the earning capacity of funds to ‘save the planet’, come from? As I told them, “The whole idea of global warming and your proposals for fixing it are based on the sort of spurious imaginings that had L Ron Hubbard found Scientology.”
And if they can afford to pay a large number of their staff to shamble up the Yellow Brick Road, only to eventually come to the inevitable conclusion on seeing the man behind the curtain, as in the Wizard of Oz, they can surely afford to reduce the amount of the fees they always charge me, win or lose. And those losses have been significant in the years since the ‘pandemic’ struck.
It seems to me that what is supposed to be a hard-nosed finance company, ever-seeking within legal limits to maximise returns for those who invest with it and with customers paying fees for that service, has sold us out and the government has hijacked – ‘nationalised’ if you like – this company and probably others, too, into its service, for the purpose of sharing the blame for when the whole industrial-sized scam of ‘global warming’ falls over. In the meantime such a sequestration of investment monies for ‘sustainable’ projects and companies will, of course, serve the useful purpose of reducing the otherwise scandalous amounts the government would be needing to pay out in taxpayer-paid subsidies for the acres of wind farms and solar cells it wants.
This month, although no North American state has completely banned ESG investing, 15 have passed laws that restrict the use of ESG factors in investment and business decisions. These laws vary in scope, but some of the most common restrictions include:
- Prohibiting state funds from investing in ESG-focused funds or companies
- Requiring state fund managers to ignore ESG factors when making investment decisions
- Banning state retirement plans from offering ESG-themed investment options
- Prohibiting state agencies from doing business with companies that boycott fossil fuels or gun manufacturers
You can split our population in many different ways, but let’s consider casual and committed workers. By committed workers I mean those who are employed in jobs that require knowledge and self-discipline. Structural engineers and those who build the bridges, naval architects and shipbuilders, mothers of children and families, airplane designers, builders and those who maintain them and electricians, plumbers, etc. The workers aware that death and destruction can be caused by bad design, poor workmanship and a lax attitude (and of the consequences legally and psychologically for personal failings that lead to death or injury).
By casual workers, I mean the opposite kind of personality: those who are ‘woke’ and always politically correct; those who have no fear of having to pay any penalty for their failings. They have not experienced the sort of discipline an old-fashioned nurse or apprentice to a trade has had over a period of several years; nor do they possess the mental discipline required to study engineering design and higher-level subjects such as mathematics. They give each other useless university degrees, like ‘gender’ studies or ‘communications studies’ in politics and public relations, as in the case of Jacinda Ardern.
Under the false pretence of having empathy, they’re in favour of, and whine, pester and advocate for, abortion, gay and trans rights and correctives to anything they fancy at any given time. They’re also against nuclear power, eating meat, the modern marvels that make life easier for us and ‘racism’, and they attack en mass anyone who speaks against them or their ideas of what’s right. They’re vain, impulsive, easily led and distracted ‘free thinkers’ with – generally speaking, as I am sure there are occasional exceptions – the attention span of a gnat. These unfortunately are the type of personality that, through the trusting, ‘easy-going’ nature of the wider population of voters, have inserted themselves into positions of power, especially in politics in Western countries, and they have attracted superficial kindred spirits – like my firm of financial advisers, media personalities and so called ‘journalists’ etc – so they can manipulate and exploit fanciful ideas like lockdowns and global warming. All for the purpose of making a buck or a million for themselves and their ‘mates’, and for showing just how much more cleverer they are than the ‘thick bastards’ who elect them and pay their wages.
An example of such a ‘casual worker’ would be the woman who wrote an article about ‘white hydrogen’ – which apparently is the sort that occurs in nature – in the UK Daily Telegraph last week; although no one knows if it actually exists in useful, recoverable quantities, she declared this to be an “exciting prospect”. Talk about buying a ‘pig in a poke’, but that’s all the save-the-planet freaks and ‘feather heads’ (as my dad used to call that sort of person, then in the minority) – the Eloi of this world – have to go on.
They are well along the road to ruining us all.
