One of my Leftie friends set me up on a blind date with a climate activist who works for a well-known NGO. He asked if I recycled and I had to say that no, I dump every bit of rubbish in a plastic bin bag and stick it in a hatch outside my door where a nice young man periodically collects it.
No sorting, no rifling through the plastic milk cartons and separating the beer and wine bottles; what woman living on her own with a job and any kind of social life has time for that sort of nonsense?
Suffice it to say it was soon decided we both had to be up early the next day so we said our goodbyes.
On my way home I checked my Twitter feed and something popped up about a new Sadler’s Wells production covering the tale of the ‘dancing plague’ in 16th century Strasbourg.
Such plagues occurred periodically in medieval Europe. The afflicted felt compelled to dance without ceasing, some until they dropped dead.
Witness accounts at the time noted the dancers’ expressions were so frenzied they appeared to be in an altered trance-like state, completely out of their minds. You can read a fascinating account here.
The events tended to happen when communities had experienced disasters such as failed harvests and believed that they were cursed. They are now attributed to a phenomenon called mass psychogenic hysteria.
Thinking about the Strasbourg plague, I reflected on the near-hysterical fervor in my date’s eyes as he talked about net-zero targets and discarded single-use plastic.
Mass psychogenic hysteria now seems to be full-blown in the minds of climate doomsday cultists who truly believe that life on planet Earth will be near extinction within a decade.
Many acolytes consuming a diet of Greta Thunberg and Greenpeace documentaries, closed off and isolated from in-person conversations as they have faced down the emergence of new pandemic variants over the last nearly two years, have lost the plot when it comes to the state of the world.
Their mental disorder has been spurred on in its intensity by the apocalyptic predictions of the United Nations and other global institutions.
Some believe that ‘long Covid’ with its litany of baffling symptoms is a manifestation of mass psychogenic hysteria.
Leaving aside the arguments around such assertions, the fact remains that the recent fundamental shifts in the ways people interact due to Covid restrictions have primed our society for climate lockdowns.
Once we believe that the future safety of humankind depends on standing within little circles and following arrows in the grocery store, our minds have succumbed to a far more sinister agenda.
Like the afflicted of Strasbourg, captives of the eco-based narrative will continue to dance to the tune of fear and dread until we force the power-mad ruling class to stop playing their dirge of destruction.
It’s time for us to tell them to go home; the party’s over.
Read more at TCW
The carbon dioxide catastrophism is only the prelude. Living in the Australian state of Victoria, I can honestly say that the main event is health catastrophism and it is even more fanatical.
Climate change eco fanaticism on display
It’s ugly
https://wp.me/pTN8Y-8cW
Just say that all the global warming activists are f’ing nuts, and that would suffice for me. No psychological analysis required. lol.
Greenpeace still sails all over the Globe in their Fossil Fueled Ships Arctic Sunrise and Rainbow Warrior II while tell us all we need to live with less the same gose with Hollywood Airheads and political hacks and the UN
Greenpeace has been making waves in the Great Australian Bight recently, using its diesel-fuelled Rainbow Warrior III ship to lead a flotilla of petroleum-based surfboards, paddleboards, yachts and power boats to protest oil exploration. While the activist organisation is quick to boast the vessel is “as sustainable as possible”, it is still, ultimately, reliant on fossil fuels.
Powered by a Volvo Penta D65A MT 1850 HP – a diesel- electric motor that uses fuel at the rate of 206 g/kWh.*
Fuel capacity of 110,000ltrs.
Both the superstructure and the Al spars of the boat are made of aluminium, which according to CSIRO**, is the most GHG- intensive metal to manufacture.
Paint, rubber, seals and almost every other part of the boat is made possible by petroleum products.
Gas stoves keep the 30 person crew fed through their long journeys campaigning against the very products helping to keep their vessel afloat.
A helicopter landing pad means there’s another source of diesel or avgas on stand- by to take their campaign on a petroleum-fuelled journey in the skies.