It’s a bit of a mystery to the green-left why we ordinary folk tend to think that Extinction Rebellion are a bunch of upper-class nutters.
I mean, who doesn’t have an Arts degree, live in an expensive inner-city suburb, and spend their spare time dressing up in silly costumes and gluing their heads to roads?
But, just to prove that they’re not really millenarian loons, consider the following dire warning from Roger Hallam, co-founder of XR:
If we don’t cut carbon emissions, your mother will be raped.
Hey, don’t look at me — it’s science, apparently.
I mean, we thought things were going to be bad when polar bears were going to be raining from the sky, but that was nothing. “The world is a gas chamber,” writes the chap who last year dismissed the Holocaust as “just another fuckery”.
But this looney is only just getting warmed up.
Climate change, says Hallam, will ‘destroy the weather’ (what?) and ‘thus our ability to grow food’. And this means ‘the collapse of our society’. And after that? Brace yourselves. ‘This means war and violence, the slaughter of young men and the rape of young women on a global scale’, says our Welsh Nostradamus […]
A gang of boys will break into your house demanding food. They will see your mother, your sister, your girlfriend, and they will gang rape her on the kitchen table. They will force you to watch, laughing at you. At the end, they will accuse you of enjoying it. They’ll take a cigarette and burn out your eyes with it. You will not be able to see anything again. This is the reality of climate change.
Note that Hallam doesn’t qualify any of his climate snuff fantasies. All of this will happen, and it will happen soon, and it will happen suddenly. “One week Tescos will be short of a few items; the next week, there’ll be no bread…people will break into stores and into houses and take what they can and kill those that stand in their way… This is what’s going to happen to your generation.”
And these people claim to be driven by ‘the science’. This drivel is pure fantasy. It’s the stuff of the Marquis de Sade, not IPCC science.
But it’s not just crazy Roger Hallam spouting this stuff. Insulate Britain (an offshoot of XR) activist Cameron Ford recently opined:
‘Societal collapse comes’, he said of the near future. ‘And then you see slaughter. You’ll see rape. You’ll see murder […] And our friends and our siblings and our children — we will lose everything we love.’
Spectator Australia
Ford and Hallam (who, without an ounce of irony, writes of mainstream climate activists that “they are walking ghosts, caught up in a cult”) are no mere extreme outlier. They are frighteningly commonplace in environmental activism. Their apocalyptic climate fantasies are merely a re-packaging of exactly the same predictions made a half-century ago by Paul Ehrlich. Ehrlich, remember, predicted mass starvation even in America, by the 1970s and 80s. Ehrlich, too, was absolutely certain: “At this late date nothing can prevent [it]”.
Given the conspicuous failure of Ehrlich’s spectacularly failed “scientific” predictions, you’d think he’d be a laughing-stock among environmentalists today. Far from it: Ehrlich is a professor emeritus at Stanford, and to this day insists that he was “essentially correct”. He is adamant that “a shattering collapse of civilisation is a ‘near certainty’ in the next few decades”.
But, if Ehrlich is an unrepentant Jeremiah, Hallam and Ford are something worse. Chillingly, Hallam penned his manifesto from a prison cell: a century ago, another eco-minded radical penned another manifesto from a prison cell. That particular radical was, like Hallam, a vegetarian, whose “blood and soil” movement shared roots with the founders of Britain’s organic movement.
Hallam openly exhorts young people to “action which breaks the law”. Nothing less is enough, Hallam insists. School strikes, marches, protests, are not enough. Young people must break the law, he repeatedly emphasises.
Sure, he pays lip-service to “non-violence”, but does anyone really buy it? After all, if you’re telling young people that they face inevitable mass starvation, rape and murder unless they take “action which breaks the law”, what do you think at least some of them are going to do?
In fact, we’ve already seen what some people are willing to do, to “save the planet”: not just the bombings and murders committed by eco-extremists across America, but a mass shooting at an Australian university — and a self-described “eco-fascist” perpetrating mass slaughter in Christchurch.
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