COP15 Biodiversity Conference

Vincent J. Curtis

4 Dec 22

A synod of the woke, called COP15, is supposed to be held in China soon.  This UN COP concerns biodiversity, and the purpose of the synod is to bewail the evils visited upon the world by western civilization.  And China is a fitting place to bewail the evils of western civilization.

The conference, however, has had to be postponed because, of all things, the resilience of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and in particular its Omicron strain.  No one, though, sees the irony that, in this case, biodiversity in viruses is unconsciously regarded as bad.

The usual collection of circus side-shows will make their displeasures known during the synod, in particular Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil.  The two ought to be at war with one another, but aren’t.  You see, CO2 is an unalloyed good for plant life on earth.  The increasing CO2 content in the air has boosted crop yields, and has been a boon to any life form that lives by photosynthesis.  One can see from space the greening of the planet earth.  And plants form the basis of the world’s food chains; without plants, there would be no life on earth.  And rising CO2 levels means healthier plant life.

Thus, if you believe in biodiversity, as Extinction Rebellion allegedly does, you cannot get past the importance of healthy plant life.  Just Stop Oil is fighting tooth and nail to halt the rise in CO2 in the atmosphere, and consequently that which forms the basis for biodiversity.  We know historically that species come and go, and there is nothing special about the set of species now exist.  But if diversity of species is important, then so is CO2, and for much of the earth’s history CO2 levels were measured in thousands of ppm, not hundreds as it now is.

That Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil are not at loggerheads indicates that their true, final aims are not in opposition.  Their point of union is bewailing the evils western civilization has visited upon the world.  Their true, final aims are the end of western civilization, of the enlightenment, of science, knowledge, and education.  And what’s to take their place?  The darkness of China.

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