A twenty mile high wall

Vincent J. Curtis

11 Aug 22

After the Soviet Union collapsed and China had it Tiananmen Square massacre in 1991, communism lay utterly discredited.  What’s a good Marxist to do in the wake of that?  How could one gain revenge against the successful United States of America?

The answer was ambitious.  It was to hobble the economy of the United States by depriving it of energy, otherwise harassing it with costly ways of doing things, and to undermine confidence in its culture.  Thirty years on, we can see the success of these endeavours.

Marxists became environmental activists who focused on CO2 emissions, climate change, all the while denying the west nuclear power.  It had to be costly and impractical wind and solar. On the cultural front, the method of post-modernist deconstruction analysis of Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault became the standard methods of evaluating western culture.  Nothing good is found by deconstruction; there’s always something that can be found wrong, and so western culture and values inevitably become tainted on the Left.  Even the “Rules for Radicals” became standard procedure for Leftist, especially its reliance on the opponent having to remain polite, deferential, and well-mannered even as the critic was not.

The climate crisis is manufactured nonsense.  It is the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on mankind.  It has brought incalculable economic dislocation.  And it continues uncritically because useful idiots in the research funding agencies only support researchers who cast a favorable light on the notion that anthropogenic climate change is occurring, that it’s bad, and that only western countries have the moral responsibility to do anything about it.  Donald Trump was wrong when he said in 2012 that the climate crises was invented to benefit China, but it sure has worked out that way.

The rot has gotten so deep in the west that even cities are encouraged to blow their budgets and their brains out on foolish and unavailing things.  Today’s Hamilton Spectator contains a couple of spectacular examples.  Left out of the diatribe below is reference to an addition $10M per year to be spent on wetlands, as if they had something critical to do with saving the climate of Hamilton.

To the Spectator:

“New director to steer Hamilton’s carbon cutting climate action strategy,” “City has $1B plan to stop flooding, sewer spills,” “Hamilton facing 6.9% tax increase in 2023.”  What’s wrong with this picture?  The tax increase ought to be a clue. [Note: All these were news headlines in the Thursday Spectator.]

What’s wrong is that Hamilton is wasting scarce resources on nonsense.  Yes, the lower city needs its sewer system to be completely rebuilt, but is that going to be co-ordinated with accommodating 200,000+ more people living downtown?  Who knows?

Instead of spending $3.4 billion on an unserious toy called the LRT, the city could have had exactly $1B from the province to spend on infrastructure.  Hmmm.  But no, the unserious children want their toy that screams “environmental correctness.”

The dumbest waste of all is the climate action strategy.  “Doing nothing is worse than spending $11B by 2050!”  Really?  And then, the usual, “There’s no time to waste!  We have to act!”  And “the bolder targets raise excitement for the potential outcomes.”

Keep sharp objects out of the hands of these people.  Something 28 years away isn’t an emergency we have no time to discuss now.  Hamilton is not a climatic hermit.  There isn’t a 20 mile high wall encircling Hamilton that keeps out CO2 from China and atmospheric winds and weather.  $11B is wasting scarce resources doing things that are unavailing.  China is no longer even pretending to cooperate with the U.S. on climate.

Keep your powder dry and your eyes open, Hamilton!

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