There are two great acts of
political make-believe in our time, so all-pervasive that it is hard for us to
grasp just how much effect they are having on our lives
What has a Papal Encyclical calling on the world to end its use of
fossil fuels and to pray to
God for the success of the global “climate summit” in December got in common
with the Greek euro crisis, the ominous rift between the West and
Russia, and the shambles Europe is making over the desperation of African and
Syrian refugees to find safety this side of the Mediterranean? They are all
different aspects of the two greatest acts of political make-believe of our
time, so all-pervasive that it is hard for us to grasp just how much effect
they are having on all our lives.
When future
historians come to look back on our age, few things will puzzle them more than
the extent to which our politics became so dominated and bedeviled by two
belief-systems, each based on an obsessive attempt to force into being an
immensely complicated political construct which defied economic, psychological
and scientific reality.
One of these
was the peculiar way in which Europe’s politicians, with full support from the
US, had set out to unite their continent under a form of supra-national
government unlike anything the world had seen before. The other was the way
those same politicians fell for the idea not just that human activities were
disastrously changing Earth’s climate, but that by taking the most drastic
measures they could somehow change it back again.
Although for
quite a time these two belief systems seemed to carry all before them, each was
essentially based on a fantasy view of the world; and it is in the nature of
trying to act out a fantasy that it must eventually overreach itself, to the
point where it collides unpleasantly with reality.
The essence of
the “European” fantasy was not just that it could gradually weld all Europe
together in “ever closer union” by overriding and eliminating the kind of
nationalism which had led to wars; but that it could continually expand its own
“empire”. We now see in all directions how that sense of national interest
cannot be eliminated.
We see it in
the desperation of the Greeks to escape from the trap created by forcing them,
through corruption and dishonesty, into the euro. We see it in how the EU’s reckless bid to absorb Ukraine into its empire
aroused that sense of Russian nationalism which drove the Crimeans into voting
to rejoin the country where they felt they belonged. We see it in the sense of
national self-interest which makes it impossible for EU countries to agree on
how to deal with that flood of refugees from across the sea.
The attempt to
create a Europe at one with itself, living prosperously and happily under a new
kind of unelected government, has led it to become such a sad, unhappy, divided
place, economically in decline compared with the outside world, ruled by a
strange form of government it no longer trusts, respects or understands.
Similarly, the
last desperate throw by the EU and the US to achieve a world agreement next
December to “halt climate change” is not going to succeed, not just because the
“science” on which it is based is so increasingly questionable, but because the
emerging powers of the East, led by India and China, are simply not prepared to
go along with it. If the West wishes to commit economic suicide, so be it. In
their own national interest, they are not willing to follow.
In fact, what
we are seeing here is a geopolitical shift of huge proportions. So lost is the West in its bubbles of self-deceiving
fantasy that the hegemony it so long exercised over the rest of the world is
passing to the world outside it, to India and China, even, in its own way, to Russia,
still a nuclear power which can prevent us pushing too hard in our support for
a bankrupt Ukrainian dictatorship, and which also still supplies Europe with a
third of the gas it needs to continue functioning.
How forlorn in
light of all this looks that would-be well-meaning 300-page document in which
the Pope, under the spell of his chief scientific adviser, a fanatical German
climate activist called Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, calls for an end to use of
the very fossil fuels which keep the Vatican’s own lights on. In asking us to
pray for that global climate treaty, Pope Francis solemnly trots out all those
familiar plaints about “melting polar ice caps”, “rising sea levels”,
unprecedented droughts, “extreme weather events” and the rest of that greenie
litany which has no basis in honest science whatever.
The outside
world is no longer listening to this claptrap. But it is not just the world
outside the West which is beginning to call the shots. Reality itself is now
knocking loudly at the door.
A final
tailpiece, now that the hedges of our Somerset countryside are studded with
creamy elderflowers, on what for many has been this year’s wondrous spring and
early summer.
Having observed
the flowering times of our hedgerow shrubs for many decades, I have noted
before how, when the blossoming of the blackthorn, hawthorn (“May”) and elder
all moved forward, sometimes spectacularly so, we were told that this was clear
evidence of “global warming”. But although this year, as last, they still came
into flower slightly earlier than their “traditional” dates (in the second
halves of April, May and June respectively), they stayed in flower even longer
than usual.
Although the
frozen firework displays of the hawthorn appeared in mid-May, they lingered on
well into June. But It can’t have been rising temperatures at work here, since
2015 has scarcely brought us continuous heat waves.
Perhaps they
have just been enjoying all the extra plant food supplied by rising levels of
that dreadful, “polluting” CO2 the Pope wants to ban.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11688994/The-Pope-joins-the-EU-in-a-sad-world-of-make-believe.html
Comments
Christopher Booker is absolutely correct and his report
on British flora should resonate with the Brits.
UN Agenda 21 came straight from the Iron
Mountain Report, The US government appointed committee of academics who wrote
it were indeed nut-bags. They suggested making up an environmental fantasy
disaster to justify governments’ existence, so in 1992 the UN published Agenda
21.
The global corporations had enough control of
the US government by the 1990s to introduce “globalism” on the heels of our
personal computer exports.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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