The Nazi Roots Of The Global Warming Scare
Generally speaking, the first person in a debate who compares their opponent to Hitler or the Nazis at that moment loses the argument. When the Third Reich is invoked, it's usually clear evidence that that person's position is so weak that they have had to resort to a gross misrepresentation of the other's position.
There are exceptions, of course, because sometimes the Nazi label fittingly applies. Sometimes the lineage of a movement, institution or political figure can traced right back to the German fascist regime.
This is the case with today's environmentalism, according to a one-time British investment banker.
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"If you look at what the Nazis were doing in the 1930s, in their environmental policies, virtually every theme you see in the modern environmental movement, the Nazis were doing," said Rupert Darwall, author of "Green Tyranny," in a recent interview with Encounter Books.
"I think actually the most extraordinary thing that I came across was this quote from Adolf Hitler where he told an aide once, 'I'm not interested in politics. I'm interested in changing people's lifestyles.' Well, that could be ... that's extraordinarily contemporary. That is what the modern environmental movement is all about. It's about changing people's lifestyles," said Darwall, who is no crackpot on the fringe and whose background includes duties as a special advisor to the United Kingdom's Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The Fuhrer's interest in "changing people's lifestyles" is, not at all shockingly, similar to the goals of today's climate fanatics who want to destroy capitalism and replace it with an economic system — run by them, naturally — that would certainly change lifestyles in the West.
Darwall further notes in the interview that "the Nazis were the first political party in the world to have a wind power program," and were also opposed to eating meat, a delightful and nutritious activity that the warming alarmists consider a sin.
When interviewer Ben Weingarten asks Darwall about the "link between Nazism and Communism, and the trajectory from that (initial) union to today's climate movement," the author provides a brief history lesson that is inconvenient for the alarmist community.
The union fits perfectly, of course, with the watermelon analogy that explains today's environmentalist excesses — green on the outside, red on the inside.
It also reminds us of the validated-many-times-over aphorism that when a socialist or communist is thrown out of the window of polite society, he returns through the front door as an environmentalist.
Darwall, who seems uninterested in sugarcoating his observations, also discusses "the 'shock troops' of the climate industrial complex," which he identifies as nongovernmental organizations such as "Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth," and other "large foundations," as well as "the Bill McKibbens of this world."
Other Nazi parallels with climate alarmists and radical environmentalists include their efforts "to delegitimize dissent" and bully "people into silence," and suppressing arguments "not by having an argument but just making sure you don't have an argument," Darwall says.
In other words, brand skeptics as "deniers" and "anti-science" rubes so they'll shut up.
Accusing its political opponents of being Nazis is an exhausted trick of the left. Think of how many times that President Trump has been called Hitler of late. It doesn't tax the imagination greatly, though, to presume that this could be done to cover the left's own kinship with fascism.
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This is one of the most absurd analogies I have ever read. Environmentalists and people who have evidence that the Earth is getting warmer and that it is causing severe weather anomalies are Nazis now? Does that make the people who have the "science" of the big oil and coal companies behind them are the new "Allies" ready to storm the beaches of...where? Are the "Allies" who do not believe in Global Climate Change going to start bombing wind and solar farms now to wipe out the evil Nazi environmentalists? Will environmentalist be rounded up by the people who do not believe and be placed in POW camps? Which would be a pretty neat trick considering that the people around world who believe in protecting the environment and renewable energy and cutting out air pollution and the the Earth is heating up outnumber those who do not and is growing.
Anybody who can still deny the obvious anthropogenic global warming on this planet just hasn't been paying attention.
Or has been paid not to pay attention.
Or is intentionally closing their eyes for one reason and one reason only. Politics. They hate the messenger(s), so they reject the message. They really are that simple.
The barrage of fossil fuel industry propaganda might have something to do with the far right wing denial of what is obvious to everybody else on this planet who is not an oil soaked profiteer. Global climate change due to burning fossil fuels for energy is killing us.
Glad I got that out of my system.
Could have something to do with greed.
I wonder when they are going to realize (or care) that their grandchildren will not be able to breath money?
So every climatologist on the planet is wrong? Pretty sure that it is paid fossil fuel industry shills who are wrong.
There is a small group of scientists that are getting rich off their climate change papers, but it's the anti-climate change group being funded by big oil.
If that is true then why are governments and corporations the world over investing billions upon billions of $ to prepare for the effects of AGW? Who am I gonna believe, those heavily investing in the conclusion of virtually every climate scientist on the planet, or the industry that stands to lose the most from efforts to curb AGW and dumb fucks like Alex Jones and those who take him seriously?
What direct scientific evidence is there that has linked this supposed warming to some cherry picked weather events. How are these "severe weather events" even defined...by someone's vivid imagination?? The seas are rising very slowly, only about a tenth of an inch a year, and there has been little, if any, warming for the last 20 years.
In addition to that, MSN.com, a liberal website, had a story a few days ago that the Sun appears to be entering another type of "Maunder Minimum", an extended period of fewer sunspot activity, which might even provide cooling for the next few decades. Climate change crazies tend to believe anything these paid for "scientists" tell them.
Sunspots have nothing to do with global warming. Only fossil fuel industry shills believe that. Scientists don't.
Uneducated and ignorant response by someone who is not a scientist and doesn't know what science is all about. .
Here is a hint to start you off, it has a lot to do with the oceans.
yepp.. the sun has nothing to do with global warming... of course.
LOL
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The sheer stupidity of the analogy is breathtaking. The argument sems to be, "well, Hitler said these words once, and other people have said the same words, therefore everyone else is a Nazi." Hitler had a dog and by all accounts loved that dog, other people have dogs and by all accounts love their dogs, therefore they are all Nazis. The rest of the article is basically the same retarded analogy over and over.
This is not "stable."
These are the same people that are so quick to empathize how teabag scum pick up the trash after their protests.
Which is also a lie. Fascists are trascists just like anybody else.
Almost glad that I'm so old that I won't see the worst of it.
Neither will you great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandchildren.
If we don't change our lifestyle world wide, such as getting rid of coal and switching to clean renewable energy and do it very soon there will not be any "great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandchildren".
Well, you can change your lifestyle, but don't expect the world to follow along. They don't want to freeze to death in the dark or ride horses everywhere.
What the fuck are you blatherin about, the climate crowd simply wants the world to switch from fossile fuels to renewable fuels. That's it. Absolutely nothing to do with socialism (although I am 100% positive you have no idea what socialism is).
The left long ago rejected clean renewable power. Now it's too late.
Pshaw!
And the Communists are responsible for water fluoridation.
And here I thought that it was a consortium of dentists.
According to The John Birch Society, your statement is correct.
Global warming is caused by overpopulation, no politician on either side will admit it because they don't want to face the real problem
Bet the Winter Olympic athletes would appreciate a little global warming and less wind.
Now that is some unbelievablely stupid shit right there. Someone was actually fucking dumb enough to say that with any sense of seriousness? You can make that exact same comment about literally any group or any movement in order to make it look bad. There is difference between positive and negative lifestyle changes.
I think actually the most extraordinary thing that I came across was this quote from Adolf Hitler where he told an aide once, 'I'm not interested in politics. I'm interested in changing people's lifestyles.' Well, that could be ... that's extraordinarily contemporary. That is what the modern evangelical christian movement is all about.
I think actually the most extraordinary thing that I came across was this quote from Adolf Hitler where he told an aide once, 'I'm not interested in politics. I'm interested in changing people's lifestyles.' Well, that could be ... that's extraordinarily contemporary. That is what the modern drug rehabilitation movement is all about.
You really do post some incredibly stupid shit heartland.
Ever heard of the far right wing propaganda machine called the Heartland Institute? ...............
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