Climate fatigue isn’t a sign that Europeans are in denial – it’s a sign of their fear
Francesco Grillo
While Europe is battered by the climate crisis, governments must reassure voters that green costs will be fairly shared
So it’s not that people are not willing to pay the costs now that they are becoming apparent then?
Well, yes:
But people are also terrified of what they believe will be the cost to individuals of the required energy transition.
Given the idiocies being demanded they’re right to be so too.
We need to transform what is seen as a public subsidy with no accountability into an investment whose impact is measurable in terms of results that voters can control.
But what if the investment isn’t regarded as being worth it?
All Green policies have the same aim: kill most of us off and force the rest to live in caves. Once you understand that, said policies look very unattractive 🙁
‘Ironically, the share of the population willing to pay more tax to prevent climate change is higher in India, Indonesia and Brazil than in Japan, Canada or Italy.’
Fine. I’m happy to let the Injuns, Indos and Brazzies pay for this nonsense.
I can never understand why, when all the so called elite, such as Obama, Clinton. Gates, Soros, deCaprisun, Kerry, and Blair, tell us that climate change will cause the seas to rise, they all buy properties on the coast.
When the wreckage from that town in Hawaii, you know, the one that residents refused to sell to big business and conglomerates, who do you think will live there? Will the people who did live there, and owned property there, he allowed to return? It is very doubtful, and I understand the Obama’s are already taking lessons on making Mai Tais.
While European green parties are expected to lose more than a third of their seats, rightwing climate-sceptic conservatives are expected to win big.
Let’s hope they manage to elect some actual conservatives, and not ‘Conservatives’.
This shift in public sentiment may even result in the EU backtracking on its so-called green deal, a core policy that has defined Ursula von der Leyen’s term as president of the European Commission.
Who voted for Ursula von der Leyen or her “green deal”?
In the general election in the Netherlands on 22 November, Frans Timmermans, a former European environment commissioner and architect of the green deal, will have his work cut out to win over the Dutch public – a majority of whom support farmers in opposing government plans to cut pollution by reducing livestock herds
Frans Timmermans is trying to take food away from Dutch people, and livelihoods away from Dutch farmers.
This is all the liberal international order has left to offer its captive Western populations: deprivation and fear.
‘Ironically, the share of the population willing to pay more tax to prevent climate change is higher in India, Indonesia and Brazil than in Japan, Canada or Italy.’
Translation: Indians and Brazilians are happy for the gullible west to pay higher taxes to give to them so they can pretend they are doing something about “global boiling”*.
What’s this next escalation after global boiling? Atmospheric steaming?
Has anyone told Germany about Ursula’s Green Deal? Could be Awks.
If a lot of white British people get out onto the streets of London this week to prevent the RoPers causing trouble, I might believe we are on the cusp of getting rid of the parasitic elite class.
Otherwise, the GoggleBox still has dominion over the weak minded.
What proportional of Brazilians, Indians etc actually pay any tax? In those countries doesn’t the tax base rely much more on the “formal” economy (MNCs, big local businesses, and the growing – but still small compared to the West – middle/professional classes) while much of the population works in the “informal” economy… or even if they do work in the formal economy, as factory workers for example, do so at wages so low they don’t pay income tax anyway? Yeah I should probably just Google. But I have the feeling that “people support more taxes” in those places is much more “people support the rich and MNCs paying more taxes” rather than “people think they should pay more taxes”.
What proportional of Brazilians, Indians etc actually pay any tax?
Not many, according to a recent episode of the Trade Talks podcast that looked at the effects of trade liberalisation in Brazil. Furthermore, the informal economy is accepted and even measured.
Unfortunately, whilst there are so many people on the climate gravy train, and so many entertaining and seemingly educated bloggers willing to suggest fancy solutions to their boondoggle, the lunatics will carry on.
@bind
Yeah I know qualitatively it’s low, though that will change over time as they (hopefully) get richer. I feel like I ought to know a killer stat – only one in X Brazilians pays tax anyway! – but I don’t.
What must be one of the funner civil service jobs even in the UK is working out the drugs and prostititution stats for our GDP:
https://quarterly.blog.gov.uk/2014/10/15/sex-drugs-and-gdp/
Taxpayers getting full value for money there.
Whenever these scams start coming off the rails, it’s always a case of not having got the message across properly and just needs further clarification to public.
A subsidy, for example, is not money taken out of the taxpayers’ pockets using the coercive power of the State and deposited into the pockets of its crony shareholders in businesses that cannot otherwise make a profit – it’s an investment in something that is so good, it can never earn sufficient revenue to cover costs and give a return.
Climate denier: a climate stasis believer – someone who knows climate change did not occur prior to the Industrial Revolution, and can only be caused by burning fossil fuels.
BiND What’s this next escalation after global boiling?
Francesco Grillo – the clue’s in the name!
I understand the Obama’s are already taking lessons on making Mai Tais
I don’t think Barry & Mike need to fix their own drinks. That’s what staff are for.
Chris Miller
Didn’t a chef of theirs drown recently?
It’s funny how after decades of Scientists™ shouting about the Earth going to freeze/boil with pretty much zero results and lots of expense to show for it, “Climate Fatigue” may well be the only real effect of all their efforts.