By Jo Nova
It could be the most rigged survey I’ve ever seen
The Lancet “Planetary Health” poll of young Americans looks as contrived as anything in our fake academic and media world.
The survey, funded by AVAAZ (a $20 million dollar political activist “NGO“) is clearly an industrial scale psychological mining operation to find Politically Useful Statistics. It is amazing the survey passed ethical approval, because some 15,793 people aged 16 to 24 were allegedly subjected to a relentless series of unhinged and unbalanced suggestions. The sheer repetition of doom mongering is a form of abuse. It’s works like hypnosis — imagine being asked, “How much, if at all, does climate change make you feel the following? Then being offered 10 shades of pain: Anxious, Powerless, Afraid, Sad, Angry, Despair, Ashamed, Grief, Depressed, Guilty, and finally Indifferent, or Optimistic.
Not only was there no chance to say climate change made you feel Bored, Lectured, Cajoled, Hen-pecked, Conned, and Scammed, but the response list itself was like a hypnotic suggestion, do you beat your wife, how often do you beat your wife, and how do you feel when you beat your wife?
The hapless victims of this interrogation couldn’t escape by picking just one of these words — for every single word on the long list they had to answer on a scale of agreement: “Not at all, A little, Moderately, Very much, Extremely”. It’s a loaded scale. There’s no option to “disagree, moderately, very much or extremely.” It was like saying “Do you agree a bit or a lot”?
It must have been clear from the start to every participant that the researchers wanted to hear how bad things were. It would have taken some wherewithal to reply “Not at all” to 26 versions of “Do you see the doom”? And there really were 26 versions — after the first question the second was “How much, if at all, does climate change make you feel the following?” To which the options included “Humanity is doomed” “I question whether the work I put into my career, job, or vocation, will matter” and Climate change will threaten my life”. After 15 (fifteen!) questions of malcontent and fear, there was the option to be hesitant about children, and finally “climate change will make my life better”.
All of these horror-show questions were listed in the supplementary file with data. (Links below).
Just imagine how many millions of dollars were wasted asking 15,000 people loaded questions?
Tellingly, there is no soul searching despite the supposedly dire results. If two thirds of young adults and teens felt the species was doomed, and half truly didn’t want children, it’s a crisis that can’t wait til 2050. But the whole Lancet “Planetary Health” poll is reported on like just another reason to build wind towers (which was probably the point of the paper). There’s no call for a more balanced education, for a more rational discussion or reminders that compared to the last 100,000 years, we all won lotto. Here we are on Planet Earth with more people, living longer than ever, with more food than we can eat, and we get to sit in machines that go zoom. But no, the only solution here is to cool the planet.
Discussion:
This emotional response represents a substantial burden on wellbeing and might also increase the risk of mental health problems. Youth can benefit from opportunities to share their distress and to act in response to climate change, including in their families, schools and universities, and communities, and through participation in policy development. The findings indicated that the young people in our sample were dissatisfied with the current actions of those in positions of power, in government and in business, and wanted these stakeholders to act to address climate change. In addition, individuals endorsed plans to respond to climate change with their votes and choices about their purchases, lifestyle, and career. These findings reinforce a theme identified in other research that climate change-related distress will continue to increase while climate change remains insufficiently addressed.67 Accordingly, the response to address this distress must be for industries, governments, and policy makers to act at the necessary scale.
It almost has a flavour of hostage negotiation — build the wind towers schmuck, or the kids get suicidal, right?
Ironically, the lead researcher was a Lewandowski (but not that Lewandowsky), and this must be the first, zeroth, volume of the all new Lancet Planetary Health Journal. Straight out the mill, it’s a machine for deceit and political propaganda. Welcome to modern “science”. Just a tool for political activists to score points off opponents and get reckless headlines out of the Guardian, while exploiting some young and naive teens and adults who probably do have some mental health issues. Shameless “The Lancet”.
Science has become a paper mill that serves people with lots of money.
REFERENCE
Lewandowski et al (2024) Climate emotions, thoughts, and plans among US adolescents and young adults: a cross-sectional descriptive survey and analysis by political party identification and self-reported exposure to severe weather events, The Lancet, Planetary Health, Volume 0, Issue 0. PDF (560.58 KB)
The people choosing not to have kids in Australia, brainwashing is highly effective.
‘According to a survey of 10,000 young people published in The Lancet, 39 per cent of global respondents were hesitant to have children due to climate change. Within Australia, that increased to 43.2 per cent, the 2021 study found.’ (AFR)
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When I was young the people who so lacked confidence in themselves blamed The Bomb.
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yep was going to say that… still here we are.
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In those days the government encouraged citizens to populate or perish.
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And Moses said to go forth. And now the Human Race is coming fifth and fifth rate at that because of ‘Pollies’, Climate Alarmists, Doomsayers, etc, etc, etc.
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I recall an expression c*pulate to populate
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Under the ‘rules’ of evolution, we should see this effect self-defeat over time. ie, if people who tend to be doom-laden tend to have less children, then over time the population will evolve to become less doom-laden. So one ‘solution’ is – just let it rip (that’s rip not R.I.P.) and over the generations humanity will be strengthened by it.
But I still think it would be better for the western democracies if they concentrated on the real problems.
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The only people worrying about climate are uneducated Western kids and their Marxist teachers. Those of us old enough to have survived the bomb, Gough Whitlam, Vietnam, the Hippies, the USSR, the oil crisis, the recession we had to have, several financial disasters, the Ice Age that wasn’t and now global warming simply laugh in the face of the latest scare. The young and the history adverse are susceptible to every bit of old rubbish that comes along because they have never had to deal with reality. They have had a dream run.
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Because of the loaded questions…doesn’t this prove the opposite? Because of the propaganda assault our kids believe the world is going to end?
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https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=yes+minister+national+service&mid=CBDCCCFD8EEF2596896DCBDCCCFD8EEF2596896D&FORM=VIRE
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A bad survey tells us nothing.
There are undoubtedly real victims out there of “climate anxiety” but this survey doesn’t tell us how many there are.
If the survey had offered participants the chance to say, climate science is a religion used to get power and money, how many would have picked that? Rassmussen did that last year and the answer among US adults was 60% said “Yes”.
See how useless this survey is?
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Just think of those shocks you’ve got
And those knocks you’ve got
And those blues you’ve got
From those news you’ve got
And those pains you’ve got
(If any brains you’ve got)
From those little radios…
H/t Cole porter ‘Anything goes.’
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This is the number one issue for our society.
Yet the MSM does precious little to discuss the factors that are promoting depopulation.
Futile sexuality is being promulgated by “Progressives”. It reeks of the “Problem Reaction Solution”
formula. Imagine a leader promoting fecundity without resort to massive immigration.
Imagine giving a mortgage forgiveness of 1/4 for each child a heterosexual couple produce.
Imagine giving a mother of four children tax forgiveness for life.
Oh, the mortgage one has been tried but it didn’t turn out so well…
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I read lately that our fertility rate has fallen to 1.5.
Among the reported contributing factors I did not see mention of SSM.
It was for this reason that I have been predicting that SSM won’t last 20 years, as those who want to depopulate the planet discover what that looks like in real life.
That 1.5 number will get worse before it gets better. And the panic won’t take 20 years to arrive.
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How do polls skewed to achieve a biased result make you feel?
a) Mildly upset
b) Extremely angry
c) So infuriated you want destroy your computer or device
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d) Makes me want to drink more and more.
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It wants me want to take away somebody’s grants.
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I’m a bit mixed about that result. Horrific to torture kids, but at least the gullible ones are not having children……
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I could understand people being hesitant to have children because of AI and robots rendering humans much less useful, creating mass unemployment. Or fear of overcrowding in mega cities and human isolation from that (cities can be very lonely isolating places). Not saying that will happen but I can understand the fear, there’s a certain logic to it. Or fear of economic struggle or pursuit of hedonistic lifestyle.
But because of bad weather? Pure insanity and victims of henny penny town criers. But I doubt many people genuinely react to this and other factors are at play.
Though I did personally know some people who sold beach front property in 2007 because of rising sea level. Oops!
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Those pesky rising sea levels… which have somehow managed to avoid the beach where I’m parked this morning (and for the last 50+ years I’ve been coming here) as families set up picnics on the sand, couples stroll hand-in-hand along the shore, dogs chase sticks and children squeal with delight.
Admittedly the tide was a little higher today, with the full moon in perigee and a comet and assorted cosmic debris hurtling through the heavens, yet otherwise, it’s the most average I’ve seen all my life. However, 12,000ya would’ve been a vastly different scenario: this ‘beach’ would be a tree-filled gully on the side of a hill overlooking an extensive river valley system that reached beyond the horizon, to where a volcanic chain is now a series of offshore islands, because the Pacific Ocean was 100 metres or so below what it is now.
‘Youth’ is sooooo wasted on young people.
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And what caused the Pacific Ocean to drop 100 metres 12,000 years ago? And what caused all those Ice Ages? And why was it so hot/warm when the Dinosaurs were around?
All these questions for those ancient times well before the Industrial Revolution started.
Does anyone today know the answers?
Meanwhile, the Climate Alarmists seem to know everything about today and the future and the last 200 years or so. Funny that.
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Yet another Adélie penguin has swum ashore, this time in the capital’s harbour (not a great decision as the city’s sewage pipes keep bursting & leaking into the sea thanks to a series of Green mayors spending money on cycle-paths & rainbow crossings).
Wellington Zoo’s senior vet, let’s call her Kirsten, on being asked what an Adélie would be doing 4,000 km from home, replied: “There’re a couple of theories, but I think the most credible one is the climate crisis has caused warming waters and habitat disruption all around Antarctica”, via RadioNZ.
Even if ‘Kirsten’ was the last vet in the country, no pet of mine would be allowed anywhere near someone holding such ****ed views.
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Surely global warming and warm currents would push tropical species down to Wellington. Penguins must be harbingers of a new ice age!
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I am totally sick of people who know nothing about the geological history of the earth telling us what will happen next!. I am quite sure that it wont be until there is a mile of ice above New York that some of these people will realise that they have been fed rubbish for years – and by the way – if/when it does rain – it WILL fill our dams!
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Something happened in the mindset of Australians around 2012, was it a change in the weather or more convincing propaganda?
https://poll.lowyinstitute.org/report/2024/climate-change-and-energy/
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Clearly a spike in temperature spooked everyone.
‘The global surface temperature ranked among the top 10 warmest years on record. Over land and ocean combined, 2012 was between 0.14° and 0.17° Celsius (0.25°and 0.31° Fahrenheit) above the 1981–2010 average, depending on the analysis.’ (NOAA)
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Try: The global surface temperature ranked among the top 10 coldest mega-anna in Earth’s history.
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The UAH was chilly in 2012, NOAA must have been using ground based data.
https://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_September_2024_v6_20x9-scaled.jpg
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My area’s (DFW Texas) historic YTD Avg Temperature for this date is 75.1°F set in 1898
2024 YTD Average 72.1°F
1898 – no SUVs, airplanes, central A/C, fewer people and livestock, a hell of a lot less heat retaining pavement, concrete and building materials,much much less
fossil fuel use and the weather station was in the country, not at an airport.
Why was it 3°F hotter 126 years ago?
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Lewandowski??
Without citing it, one of the ‘et al’ would be John Cook…yes?
Nothing to see here, just more confirmation bias being memorialized as a “science” paper, never to be replicated.
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I thought at first that it was our old friend Lewandowski, but No.
The lead author is Eric Lewandowski, not the Stefan Lewandowski that we know so well.
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The placard the young lad is holding exemplifies the inanity and stupidity of recent generations. Maybe his teachers helped him with his project. I agree, don’t have children.
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Having children would require a commitment… well to most people.
And would limit the life style options unless beneficiary of a largish trust fund.. Thank you (gr)(gr)grandparents/rich aunt/uncle
But then again WW III might alter life style options…
Too many suburban/big city residents never had to live with long drop toilets.
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Or without electricity!
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Yes. Because generations born after 1950 have never lived without electricity, they’ve completely lost touch and don’t understand what it does for their lives.
My mother born 1940, lived without electricity until her teen years in rural Australia. She remembers very well getting electricity. This fueled her generation’s drive to modernity. Out went the fireplaces and in came gas heaters. The weatherboards were covered with fibro for easier maintenance; the wooden windows that moved and became inoperable replaced with aluminum window frames; two freezers kept food instead of the gauze and hessian bags under water tank hanging meat. Everything was to make life easier, and better, less back breaking work and constant maintenance.
We were farmers though, and all food on the table was from the farm, potatoes, beans, pumpkins, meat, milk, peaches and plums. I watched a lot of World Series night cricket stringing beans and peeling peaches for stewing and freezing.
But as soon as they started earning better money, all that went too. They understood how much work all this was.
My father ploughed fields with a horse as a kid, probably into the 1950’s, I’m not exactly sure. He died early only two years after retiring, from all the work and not enough sleep. A strong man but the body was broken from the toil and lack of sleep from rising at 4am seven days a week, combined with sleep apnea saw him take fits as the brain shut down.
My generation has no idea of the work involved and fantasize about returning to this way of life. This is what fuels the naivety that we can exist on windmills and no oil.
A good dose of reality is required.
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Modern “The Science”.
First chose your policy,then manufacture the evidence.
As for these surveys and all polling..Who hangs around long enough to finish such annoying exercises?
Most all working people refuse to participate..
So who gets surveyed?
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So many service providers nowadays ask you to complete a survey after the provision of goods and often that survey is much more than it needs to be. If your package arrived on time in good condition, you don’t really need to be answering a series of questions with a wide range of ratings.
Like you say it’s annoying, most rational people won’t do it. Back in the day, Morgan Gallup polls would randomly call people on their home phone to conduct surveys- the person taking the call would volunteer their opinion if they chose to. These days there are incentives offered to participate in a survey (ie. you might win a voucher if you complete this survey…)
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“do you beat your wife, how often do you beat your wife, and how do you feel when you beat your wife?”
That reminds me of an old one –
“Are you still beating your wife?” “NO.” “So, you were beating your wife.”
It’s all in the way that the questions are asked. Surveys are notorious for this.
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Child abuse …. ’nuff said.
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“Science serves people with lots of money” and those that depend on government largess to accumulate more. I refer to the State of Victoria that eventually will require a Federal bailout!
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No bailout for Sicktoria. The voters and taxpayers can wallow in their folly. Meanwhile the
Pollies’ get away with it once more.
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Unfortunately there’ve always been clueless young donkeys in every generation and 60 years ago Jane Fonda was about as delusional and stupid as the worst of them.
And guess what today she still believes that Nuclear is dangerous and we should rely on lunacy like toxic W & S and destroy our environments and waste trillions of $ for SFA change to weather or climate or temperature.
Why is it that the dumbest loonies always have far too much to say for themselves?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/10/18/jane-fondas-views-on-nuclear-energy-are-stuck-in-the-1970s/
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We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
All in all, it’s just another brick to the head……
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One of my favourite songs……………..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IpYOF4Hi6Q
Love the Children singing.
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You do mighty work Jo, and you sum these up and dismiss their erroneous conclusions brilliantly.
All I can say is please keep doing it!
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Make sure you, and all the rest of us on this blog, buy some of her chocolates. Just click the link at the top of this article, it’s easy peasy and she will be forever grateful.
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Perhaps the kids could check on some of the recent studies that show SLs were much higher 5,000 years ago.
This recent study finds that SLs then were 3 metres higher around Japan.
Yet they’re supposed to panic today and believe that their life’s not worth living?
https://notrickszone.com/2024/10/17/new-study-sea-levels-were-3-meters-higher-than-today-5000-years-ago-along-japans-coasts/
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Here’s another 2024 study that the kids should think about and hopefully stop believing in lefty extremism.
Brown bears lived in the nth Siberian Arctic just 3500 years ago but today they’ve retreated much further south so they can more easily survive.
Just supports the MacDonald study that found the earlier Holocene was much warmer and Boreal forests then grew up to the Arctic Russian coastline for thousands of years. l
https://notrickszone.com/2024/10/14/brown-bears-lived-in-the-73n-siberian-arctic-3500-years-ago-today-their-northern-boundary-is-65n/
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Perhaps this 2024 Polish clouds study could also interest the kids?
It’s interesting that the AMO is also nearing the end of the warm phase according Dr Judith Curry and we could soon see a shift to 30 + years of cooling in the Atlantic Multi-decadal oscillation?
It could also see us past 2050 and perhaps slow down their silly climate change warming scares?
https://notrickszone.com/2024/10/07/new-study-cloud-changes-are-the-cause-of-changes-in-the-accumulated-solar-energy/
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Surely it’s a massive positive for the future if people who are stupid enough to believe all this climate scaremongering (or have been indoctrinated by equally stupid parents) don’t reproduce?
I suspect that most normal young people accosted by these ‘activists’ would have got to about question 3 before politely excusing themself to go and do something productive.
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The hardest thing a person can do is……THINK, 90% of the World population struggle with that concept.
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evidently
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Think of it as evolution in action. . . – Larry Niven
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I always enjoyed listening to Sammy Davis Jr’s “The Candy Man”. Not many years ago, I finally bought a CD of his so I could own a copy of it and listen to it whenever I wanted to (even if I wasn’t online!). The album included a song that I didn’t remember hearing much on the radio when it was new: “The People Tree”. It sounds so much like the other song that I could imagine they recorded both of them during the same recording session.
These days, I reckon the people who control the mass media would never air “The People Tree” for fear of falling afoul of the current POV that there should be fewer people on the planet…and the sooner the number falls to 500K, the better.
That always reminds me that 50 or so years ago, the mass media weren’t 4-walling us with the idea that there were too many people. Also, it wasn’t a daily news item (like it is now!) that young people are depressed and should take meds for it, etc. However, has anyone else noticed that the young people who do the mass shootings are the same ones who are taking psychotropic meds?
I always wonder if the young-people-are-hopeless-and-depressed problem would be lessened if the soundtrack of their life included more songs like “The People Tree” rather than…oh, I don’t know…gangsta rap?
Just sayin’…
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True that my bro, chur! 😃
After 2020’s non-scientific Operation Clotshot, my ears could no longer handle ‘progressive modern popular’ music (though it’d been happening for a while). For decades my choice of real music has been regressive – going back to early Blues & jazz and the Big Band era of the 1920/30s when musicians knew how to swing 🎶 oddly enough the music my parents used to listen to.
Still love a great screaming guitar solo a la Santana or Lynyrd Skynyrd or Thin Lizzy or Pink Floyd, though David Gilmour has fallen for the climate nonsense so he’s getting harder to take seriously anymore.
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Preach it, dude! 🙂
I loves me some-o-dat Big Band music. One of my ancestors told me about how, during the Great Depression, they and their friends would gather at someone’s house, move all their furniture to the wall, roll up the rug, and dance up a storm to whatever new records they could get their hands on. Must’ve been quite a hoot!
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Fair enough, the ones who don’t want kids because the worlds gonna end probably shouldn’t be having them anyway.
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Lewandowski et al and the Lancet are notoriously reliable sources of manufactured Alarmism and Misinformation.
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The Lancet….enough said. We remember COVID.
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Listen to Michael Shellenberger’s discussion on Joe Rogan Podcast from a week or so ago and get a wake up on how captured the media is with the doom and destruction industry.
It’s insidious, it’s funded by Soros and Schwab and they have purchased media outlets to disseminate this patent bile for their renewables grift to fund their global Marxist utopia.
When these heavy funded NGO’s and their media activists claim that the public believe that ‘stakeholders’ aren’t acting fast enough, hard enough, often enough to literally tilt at windmills, it’s nothing more than a marketing call to have more tax payer subsidies funnelled into their coffers to use against the Western democracies middle class to erode personal and sovereign wealth to fast track the Marxist Global utopia and fund the lifestyle of these grifters in the upper echelons.
We’ve seen in the last five years how fact checking, debunking, polls, surveys are all trashmedia tentacles of the Marxist propaganda machine designed to brainwash impressionable children and sanctimonious young ‘adults’ into hating the society which allows them the freedom to criticize their own society.
The danger is imminent in the West as the Soros/ Seotoro Cloward/Piven Marxist putsch is well under way in the US and it’s ‘allies’ are a heartbeat away from being double crossed as Israel has just found out.
The climate agenda is only one of the internal chaos elements devised by the Marxists to keep their enemies fighting internally, while they embed their true agenda. 2025 is a pivotal year for the West. Under a puppet Harris, democracy is gone, energy and food security is gone and sovereign wealth is gone!
Marxism 101, say one thing, to cover doing the opposite. That was blatantly obvious from Harris’ campaign launch in front of a massive banner saying Middle Class. That’s their target -to continue to destroy – as flooding with immigrant labour and deliberately destroying the cost of living shows. They have zero interest in lower middle class other than as worker drones, as they have support from their elite tier.
Defund NGO’s, government departments and education departments and force the Marxists to put their names on the ownership papers of these criminal enterprises masquerading as planet savers.
They are inventing ‘stakeholder’ enterprises to brainwash the gullible into believing action is actually possible, let alone vital!
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That gullible brainwashed young people will not breed is excellent news
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