SPOTLIGHT: Forget reporting facts. Journalists pick sides and spread false news.
BIG PICTURE: The Breakthrough Institute is known for its sensible approach to environmental questions. The current issue of its journal includes a tour de force titled “Welcome to the Narcisscene: Returning Humans to the Center of the Cosmos.”
Author Mark Sagoff spends 5,000 words discussing a topic that should appall anyone who worries about science being hijacked by politics.
The short version is that there’s an international organization “responsible for naming and dating geologic periods, eras, and epochs.” Comprised of geologists, this organization has been under immense pressure to assert that planet Earth is no longer in the geological epoch known as the Holocene.
For nearly 20 years, non-geologists such as Nobel-winning atmospheric scientist Paul Crutzen, have been insisting that a new epoch should be officially declared – one that acknowledges humanity’s influence on the planet. They think it should be called the Anthropocene. (In ancient Greek, anthro means ‘human’.)
An article in the Smithsonian Magazine has observed that this is a “battle between geologists and environmental advocates.” For his part, Sagoff does a magnificent job of explaining the narcissistic, anti-scientific nature of the campaign.
In his words, “The Anthropocene makes humanity great again.” The clear implication is that puny humans are more important than natural forces that have been underway for hundreds of millions of years. Never mind the volcanoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, droughts, and monsoons over which we have no control. We humans apparently rule.
Let us be clear: this new epoch remains a proposal. The idea continues to be debated. There is an official process by which such things happen, and nothing of the sort has yet occurred.
How then do we explain the conduct of once reputable publishers? Rather than waiting for an official announcement, journalists decided the decision was somehow theirs to make. In 2011 – seven bleeping years ago – the cover of The Economist declared: “Welcome to the Anthropocene: Geology’s new age.”
Two years later, academic publisher Elsevier chose to lend weight and credibility to such notions by launching a scientific journal wholly devoted to the Anthropocene.
The media has invented an alternative reality. Usurping the role of the proper authorities, it has presented one perspective in an ongoing debate as established fact. It has represented a mere possibility as a done deal. Advocacy. Wishful thinking. The explanation is beside the point.
The public does not expect news magazines to make stuff up. Moms and dads surfing the Internet, kids working on school projects. They have no way of knowing that that Economist cover is fiction.
TOP TAKEAWAY: Declaring something to be the case before it has actually happened is unethical. A more scandalous example of fake news is difficult to imagine.
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Just about every Hurricane happening these last years the Lie a day news media reptiles have blamed it on Global Warming/Climate Change since Katrina back in 2005 like with Hurricane Sandy as well as Harvey and Irma these liberal scandal mongers spew Lies Lies Lies instead of the News
Earth has experienced an unknown number of ch-ch-changes. The “anthropocene” would be a pimple by comparison.
We too shall pass.
Manmade Global Warming alarmism is purely a political tool devised by a group of left-wing totalitarians called ‘Fabians’. (Their symbol is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Look them up on the net. They claim they’re “just a discussion group”.)
During the last half century and more, the Fabians have gradually infiltrated the hierarchies of organisations of all descriptions – political and otherwise – across the entire world. This subversive and highly successful infiltration has come to be known as “The Long March Through The Institutions”.
Its home is the United Nations and its principal subsidiary is the European Union.
Anyone with eyes to see has long since recognised that the major media organisations too have been infiltrated by Fabians. There are fewer and fewer sources of news untainted by their influence.
This has been one of the most vitally important aspects of their agenda, since the first objective of any totalitarian movement is the control of information.
If they control what we know, they control what we think.
The Fabian media – in this case, ‘The Economist’ – no longer report facts. They manufacture stories in accordance with a centralised script and are thus able to manipulate and even manufacture ‘public opinion’.
In other words, we think we’re making rational informed decisions based on ‘the facts’ but the truth is, ‘the facts’ we’re relying on are largely artificial – just distortions and misrepresentations.
Almost all the mainstream media have been feeding us such falsehoods, subtle and otherwise, for many years now. Societies worldwide have been steered politically leftward as a direct result. The Fabian goal is complete and absolute control of every individual human life and, if you watch carefully, you’ll see that our individual freedoms are being eroded slowly but surely, day by day.
This is not accidental or simply circumstantial; it’s coldly deliberate.
Be careful what you believe.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.