{"id":11060,"date":"2020-05-07T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=11060"},"modified":"2020-05-08T13:48:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T17:48:32","slug":"653-pandemic-parallels-the-covid-19-climate-changer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/11060","title":{"rendered":"653 – Pandemic parallels: The COVID-19 climate changer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was inevitable. COVID-19 meets climate change<\/strong>, two issues that have more in common than most expect. Right now, many \u2018Green\u2019 activists are in support of the politicians and health care officials who wish to extend the shut down indefinitely and thereafter maintain current state controls and regulations on all aspects of daily living.<\/p>\n

With last week\u2019s release of the environmental documentary Planet of the Humans<\/strong>, an interesting philosophical dilemma has surfaced. Produced by Left-wing environmentalists Michael Moore, Jeff Gibbs,<\/strong> and Ozzie Zehner,<\/strong> it should not be surprising that the movie is utterly anti-life and anti-capitalist. But shockingly to those both on the Left and the Right, the documentary presents a brutal and honest account of the environmental destruction wrought by \u2018green\u2019 alternate energy initiatives, particularly wind, solar, and biomass.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Given the abject environmental failure of the very initiatives once endorsed by the movie\u2019s producers, they have now changed their tactics, identifying more with the destructive results of the state-imposed COVID-19 shutdown.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Writer Jeff Gibbs illustrates the central objective of the climate change campaign by viewing the current shut-down as an opportunity to create a society where “Less is more.”<\/strong> That contradiction, turned into an ideal, lies at the root of the environmental movement’s philosophy. Certainly, if the object of one\u2019s intentions is to create \u2018less,\u2019 then the shut down is a perfect demonstration of how that can be done. The \u2018more\u2019 part is what’s difficult to demonstrate.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe solution is to do less,\u201d suggests Gibbs, \u201cwe get to be lazier and not mow the lawn\u2026 wildflowers and butterflies will come back. This (shut down) is causing us to use less energy, to travel less, to consume less, to buy less.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adds Moore: \u201cThis isn\u2019t really a discussion about renewable energy but about who we are and why we allow a system of greed,<\/strong> the profit motive, perpetual growth,<\/strong> how we structure the economy\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Moore\u2019s revelation that \u2018renewable energy\u2019 and CO2 campaigns have only been used as distractions to destroy the free economy known as capitalism<\/strong> is an explicit admission of hidden motivations – motivations perfectly in line with those who want to see the shutdown extended and government powers increased.<\/p>\n

With all the distracting talk of \u2018less is more\u2019 and \u2018doing\u2019 less, we eventually discover that the real thing they want \u2018less of\u2019 is<\/strong> to be found in the title of their documentary: people.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Seen in this light, \u201cLess is more\u201d becomes the slogan of a death cult and is as irrational as it sounds. For those more inclined towards rationality, in this context \u2018Less is Moore\u2019 is what sounds Just Right to us.<\/p>\n

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According to a report by NewsWars (May 6, 2020) \u201cU.N. Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres called for global leaders to \u2018use the pandemic recovery\u2019 to roll out their global climate change agenda, including allowing fossil fuel companies to collapse and using taxpayer stimulus money to fund green jobs.\u201d It was inevitable. COVID-19 meets climate change, two issues [Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,25,323,28,6,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-capitalism-politics","category-environmentalism","category-latest","category-politics","category-socialism","issues-climate-change","issues-covid-19","issues-environmentalism","issues-shutdown","personalities-michael-moore","category-12-id","category-25-id","category-323-id","category-28-id","category-6-id","category-120-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11060"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11081,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060\/revisions\/11081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}