What is it with ecofascists and kids? Is there something Freudian going on there, or is it because they recognize that children are the future of humanity? And we can’t have that.
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What is it with ecofascists and kids? Is there something Freudian going on there, or is it because they recognize that children are the future of humanity? And we can’t have that.
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Well, considering that this really goes back to Ehrlich and ZPG, is it that much of a surprise?
I figure that since directly threatening “deniers” with war crimes trials didn’ work, they’ll just go after our children.
I’m still stuck on the spin required to move from the denotation of “No Pressure!” to the aggressive, instantaneous and personal application of capital punishment on wafflers via vigilantism.
This is largely the same people that don’t feel individuals are even capable of self-policing.
Your question was answered last week in the linked Pajamas Media article titled Young, Dumb, and Scared: Big Green and the Existential Protection Racket:
The environmental activism industry had learned a lesson: get them young, get them dumb and keep them dumb, and scare the hell out of them.
In today’s installment of the “Big Green” series at the Washington Examiner, Mark Hemingway and Ron Arnold show us how well the environmental activism industry has learned their lesson.
Start with The Story of Stuff, a 20-minute “documentary” targeted to children (“get them young”) using questionable statistics that most kids wouldn’t have the resources to check (“get them dumb”). Continue with the “documentary” Gasland, which makes a number of claims about hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) for natural gas production that, well, turn out not to be verifiable (“get them dumb”) or even turn out to be flat out made up, illustrated with video of flaming water faucets (“scare the hell out of them”) that turn out to be “gassy” wells that our great-grandparents here in the West were complaining about a hundred years ago.
As a method, of course, it works wonderfully. Get young kids, and present anything you like in an authoritative voice with a teacher behind it, and they’ll believe it. With some technical subject, like well-fracturing, their teachers probably don’t know much more than what’s in the movie, and only rare parents will know any better.
The result is that the environmental activism industry picks up some new foot-soldiers — by far the majority of the demonstrators at environmental demonstrations are in their late teens or early twenties — and lots of publicity that pushes the grants, that fund the lawsuits, that pay for the political actions, that lead to more grants.
Watched NASA tv recently? it’s the same. Of course, they suck at it.
Key difference between this ad and “No Pressure” – the ACT-R ad portrays AGW as the force that threatens to off the kids. “You’re doing this to the kiddies every time you drive that SUV and fire up that barbecue grill.”
Maybe the ecofascists were abused and tormented by the other kids at school when they were kids themselves. They grew up to hate kids.