Vincent J. Curtis
28 Jan 2019
RE:
Climate change as a social justice issue (Hamilton Spectator of this date)
The
brainiacs among the McMaster University professoriate announced a conference on
the social justice of climate change on the day when a polar vortex is bringing
frigid temperatures and heavy snowfall to Hamilton.
Climate
change is a social justice issue. All the solutions proffered by the
cossetted brainiacs, like carbon taxes and expensive electricity, screw the
working class and the poor. In France, the peasants are revolting -
because they can’t carry the latest burden for saving the world eighty years
from now.
The
cossetted brainiacs aren’t affected by the consequences of their
ideology. They don’t have to drive to work or drive for work, like the
rioting French peasants do. Social justice is at stake, just not as the
brainiacs see it.
I always
thought of a university as a place of learning, not of social activism by the
professoriate. Social activism led by professors probably means they are
getting too emotionally involved to remain objective and scholarly about the subject.
But, I suppose climate change being a science matter, it’s okay for artsies to
jump in head first.
Hosting a
conference which ought to be entitled, “My hair’s on fire, why isn’t yours?”,
we have a professor of English saying, “We need to approach climate change from
a number of different lenses.” And “We need to incorporate that
Indigenous knowledge with science.” How did she get to be a professor of
English when she can utter so failed a metaphor as ‘approaching from different
lenses’? How do the science professors feel about being told their
knowledge is lacking and requires the incorporation of ‘Indigenous
knowledge’? How would she know?
The
professor must have got her Ph.D. in the culture studies part of “English and
Culture Studies for I observe no familiarity with Bill Shakescene in her
utterances.
The
professors unintentionally give cause to wonder at their employment as
professors.
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