Rules for Radicals Applied
Vincent J. Curtis
9 Nov 22
RE: Report calls out empty climate promises. A CP story by Ian Bickis. The Hamilton Spectator 9 Nov 22.
Catherine McKenna, once Canada’s Minister of the Environment and a notorious climate change nag, has found new employment. She now hectors the world on its shortcomings with the authority of Chair of some UN “expert” group on the net zero question. She delivered her lecture from the podium of the COP27 conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.
McKenna demonstrated the application of four of Saul D. Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. The target of McKenna’s lecturing were investment institutions and banks. How a bank contributes to CO2 emissions is kind of a mystery. They own buildings that are heated and air conditioned, and they have employees that expel CO2 as they breathe, but they don’t operate major truck fleets, and you don’t associate banks with smokestacks. With enough indecent hectoring, the banks signed on to “net-zero.” It should be easy, since they’re as close to zero as a thing can be and still be alive.
Having secured their adhesion to net-zero ideology by indecent means, whining, screaming, and slandering, they are then accused by McKenna of not living up to their commitments, called “greenwashing.” This exhibits three of Alinsky’s Rules:
3.
Go outside the expertise of the
enemy. (the alleged science of climate change.)
4.
Make the enemy live up to its
own book rules. (decency, politeness)
8. Keep the pressure on. (by constant hectoring.)
Keen observers will notice that the term enemy also fits the description of innocent, middle class and working class people.
The banks were not supposed to lend money to the oil and gas industry.
“We have set very clear red lines on greenwashing,” lectured McKenna as she wagged her finger. “You cannot claim to be net zero by continuing to build or invest in new fossil fuel supply.”
Logic is not McKenna’s long suit. Nor is it the long suit of practically all professional and semi-professional climate alarmists. A bank itself can make its already small carbon footprint even smaller, plant some trees and strive to be net zero itself. But as a public institution, it has to do business with public as it is. It cannot by law discriminate. It has to do business with the oil man, the farmer, and the forestry company each according to the same set of rules. In its war against carbon, the climate alarmists don’t count the lending to the farmer, who grows crops, or the forestry company, that plants trees and fixes carbon, as “net-zero offsets” to lending to the oil man. Why they can’t is never explained.
The climate alarmists indecently exploit the decency of ordinary people who just want to go about their business unmolested. All in accordance with Alinsky’s Rule 13: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
What could better describe the action of thirty four years of carbon hatred?
The disinvestment strategy has been employed before, against South Africa and, to this day, Israel. The oil, gas, and coal businesses are the latest to get the disinvestment treatment. Except it doesn’t work against China, which last year minded three million tons of its own coal. It also is Russia’s newest biggest customer for oil and gas that used to go to Western Europe.
Climate alarmism is, and always has been, targeted at western civilization. Extinction Rebellion exists and operates in the West and not in Saudi Arabia or China. Aramco is the largest oil company in the world, but because it’s owned by Saudi Arabia it never gets included among the dastardly oil companies that make so much money. (Never mind Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, or Google, they’re our friends!)
Climate alarmism has become an anti-west
religion, and McKenna has become one of its harridan high priestesses. Her job, at
which she is well qualified, is to hector and nag others for their climate
shortcomings, which has come to called “greenwashing.” Saul D. Alinsky is
smiling in hell.
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