Thanks for this. The operative words here are fear-porn. Man-made "climate change" is actually weather manipulation by the global elite...using chem-trails and other methods. Their end-game is lockdowns in their 15 minute cities...and everyone eating bugs and manufactured frankenfoods...instead of wholesome homegrown foods. With the bird flu scamdemic, they have plans to come for backyard chickens. The massive forest fires are planned. I lived through it here in September 2020. Houses turned to dust and cars melted, but trees in the same neighborhood untouched? Since when did that ever happen before? It was the same weapon they used on Lahaina.
I wasn't going to comment...because usually this is a waste of my time. Most folks don't want to hear the truth...but since no one else commented, I might as well. If one refuses to see what is slapping them in the face, there is nothing one can write in a comment section that will awaken a sleeping brain.
You are right of course. The media contributes to a sense of helplessness and rarely offers solutions. I'm not sure if this is a psyop which, if I understand the word, means a kind of propaganda. The media (I think this piece is largely about media) is always going to lead with a problem (as opposed to possible solutions) and that's understandable. On some level "they" want to scare people too. I think there are numerous voices, writers like yourself, who are offering possible remedies to the climate crisis but it's hard to get people to take action if they don't feel the threat... In the meantime in California we have these huge fires. I became aware of the term "fire season" beginning about eight years or so ago. Fire and bad air are a "given" now. The biggest problem in the West has been drought. Since I've been alive we have had several long droughts here and the forests have suffered enormously with millions upon millions of dead trees are in the California forests. The lack of water appears to lead to beetle infestations that are killing the trees as well. In 2017, I had a job taking tourists to Yosemite; dead conifers were all along the roads of the Sierra foothills and within the park too. I agree about everything you say about the bad planning and bad habits of our society that lead to so much destruction of healthy "carbon and water cycles." Still, I think a certain amount of alarmism might be called for. Going back a bit, when I did that tour guide job I started to question whether tourism is a good thing at all. Too many people, too many buses, too much love of nature (translation: "nature" as a photo op) has a big part in killing that thing we love.
I think you're right that some alarmism is called for. It's just that so many things that we should be more alarmed about are ignored. The web of cause and effect for many of the problems we face is complex, and it's simpler to lump it all under "climate change" than to try to explain it.
I'm very fortunate to live in a place where fires aren't a threat (yet.) Wildfires are the perfect example of a problem with various causes beyond climate change that are rarely discussed, mainly bad forest management practices.
It's true. Native Americans used prescribed burns they say, which had the effect of eliminating the more flammable brush without killing the hardier trees. This sort of forest management was stopped by know-it-all white people who took over in the 19th century. But burn-offs weren't practiced in uninhabited areas even when native peoples reigned... They say that 90% of the California wildfires are started by humans, and it seems to me most of these start in areas that have recently been developed, places people shouldn't be living in the first place IMHO.
This made me think of a passage from a book by Wendell Berry, quoted below. Thank you for your writing! I appreciate the reminder to be more than just an "emissionary."
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Because the future is limitless, we can project without limit into it. It is limitless, to us, because we know nothing about it. Because we know nothing about it, we are free to talk endlessly about it. It is hard to imagine why we do this except to distract ourselves from the difficult things we do know about and ought urgently to be talking about. We give up the incarnate life of our living souls, in the only moment we are alive, in order to live in dreams and nightmares of the future of a world we have already diminished and made ill, in no small part by our often mistaken preparations for the future. Why, living now and only now, should we afflict ourselves with predictions of a hellish future in which we are not alive and perhaps will never live? Or why should we delude ourselves with visions of a future technological heaven-on-earth in which we certainly will never live?...
The problem with prediction, no matter how scientifically respectable it may be, is its power to bring on first a fear and then a movement that can be popularized into a fad. But of all bad motives, none may be worse or more hopeless than fear. Nobody, I think, has ever done good work because of fear. Good work is done by knowing how and by love. Love requires faith, courage, patience, and steadiness, none of which can come from fear…
To get to such ways of thinking and working, I believe we have got to understand how the great one-cause, fear-motivated climate change movement, for example, can become a major distraction, not only from better ways of problem solving and better ways of thinking and working but also from the local causes of climate change – which has, after all, only local causes.
-Wendell Berry, “Leaving the Future Behind: A Letter to a Scientific Friend,” in The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings, 2017, pp. 69, 71-72
Thanks for this. The operative words here are fear-porn. Man-made "climate change" is actually weather manipulation by the global elite...using chem-trails and other methods. Their end-game is lockdowns in their 15 minute cities...and everyone eating bugs and manufactured frankenfoods...instead of wholesome homegrown foods. With the bird flu scamdemic, they have plans to come for backyard chickens. The massive forest fires are planned. I lived through it here in September 2020. Houses turned to dust and cars melted, but trees in the same neighborhood untouched? Since when did that ever happen before? It was the same weapon they used on Lahaina.
I wasn't going to comment...because usually this is a waste of my time. Most folks don't want to hear the truth...but since no one else commented, I might as well. If one refuses to see what is slapping them in the face, there is nothing one can write in a comment section that will awaken a sleeping brain.
You are right of course. The media contributes to a sense of helplessness and rarely offers solutions. I'm not sure if this is a psyop which, if I understand the word, means a kind of propaganda. The media (I think this piece is largely about media) is always going to lead with a problem (as opposed to possible solutions) and that's understandable. On some level "they" want to scare people too. I think there are numerous voices, writers like yourself, who are offering possible remedies to the climate crisis but it's hard to get people to take action if they don't feel the threat... In the meantime in California we have these huge fires. I became aware of the term "fire season" beginning about eight years or so ago. Fire and bad air are a "given" now. The biggest problem in the West has been drought. Since I've been alive we have had several long droughts here and the forests have suffered enormously with millions upon millions of dead trees are in the California forests. The lack of water appears to lead to beetle infestations that are killing the trees as well. In 2017, I had a job taking tourists to Yosemite; dead conifers were all along the roads of the Sierra foothills and within the park too. I agree about everything you say about the bad planning and bad habits of our society that lead to so much destruction of healthy "carbon and water cycles." Still, I think a certain amount of alarmism might be called for. Going back a bit, when I did that tour guide job I started to question whether tourism is a good thing at all. Too many people, too many buses, too much love of nature (translation: "nature" as a photo op) has a big part in killing that thing we love.
I think you're right that some alarmism is called for. It's just that so many things that we should be more alarmed about are ignored. The web of cause and effect for many of the problems we face is complex, and it's simpler to lump it all under "climate change" than to try to explain it.
I'm very fortunate to live in a place where fires aren't a threat (yet.) Wildfires are the perfect example of a problem with various causes beyond climate change that are rarely discussed, mainly bad forest management practices.
It's true. Native Americans used prescribed burns they say, which had the effect of eliminating the more flammable brush without killing the hardier trees. This sort of forest management was stopped by know-it-all white people who took over in the 19th century. But burn-offs weren't practiced in uninhabited areas even when native peoples reigned... They say that 90% of the California wildfires are started by humans, and it seems to me most of these start in areas that have recently been developed, places people shouldn't be living in the first place IMHO.
Thanks Lynn! Here's my version! https://didipershouse.substack.com/p/heres-what-i-think-everyone-needs
I love your version, especially the way you explain things in plain language.
Thanks, Lynn!!! Looking forward to more back and forth as we explain the world!
This made me think of a passage from a book by Wendell Berry, quoted below. Thank you for your writing! I appreciate the reminder to be more than just an "emissionary."
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Because the future is limitless, we can project without limit into it. It is limitless, to us, because we know nothing about it. Because we know nothing about it, we are free to talk endlessly about it. It is hard to imagine why we do this except to distract ourselves from the difficult things we do know about and ought urgently to be talking about. We give up the incarnate life of our living souls, in the only moment we are alive, in order to live in dreams and nightmares of the future of a world we have already diminished and made ill, in no small part by our often mistaken preparations for the future. Why, living now and only now, should we afflict ourselves with predictions of a hellish future in which we are not alive and perhaps will never live? Or why should we delude ourselves with visions of a future technological heaven-on-earth in which we certainly will never live?...
The problem with prediction, no matter how scientifically respectable it may be, is its power to bring on first a fear and then a movement that can be popularized into a fad. But of all bad motives, none may be worse or more hopeless than fear. Nobody, I think, has ever done good work because of fear. Good work is done by knowing how and by love. Love requires faith, courage, patience, and steadiness, none of which can come from fear…
To get to such ways of thinking and working, I believe we have got to understand how the great one-cause, fear-motivated climate change movement, for example, can become a major distraction, not only from better ways of problem solving and better ways of thinking and working but also from the local causes of climate change – which has, after all, only local causes.
-Wendell Berry, “Leaving the Future Behind: A Letter to a Scientific Friend,” in The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings, 2017, pp. 69, 71-72
Wow! Great quote. Thank you.