Ecological collapse is certainly underway, hence the disappearance of bees and the so-called “insect apocalypse.” This year the Pacific salmon fishery collapsed in a way that was eerily reminiscent of the Atlantic cod fishery. No same person would argue we’re not in some kind of crisis.
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Morningstar’s article series points out that an elite socio-political structure is poised to usurp the broad environmental movement at a critical juncture. Protest signs at the Climate Strike action at Queen’s Park, Ontario. (To put it another way, I dislike orthodoxies even if they happen to be right about something.) I myself have a boundless interest in learning the truth (whatever it is) orthodoxies? Not so much. Slogans like “climate change denier” are useful agitprop in that regard ergo, we have environmental specialists with Ph.D.’s who find they can’t converse about this without being shouted down, if their questions waver even slightly from the orthodoxy. It’s easy to throw sand in skeptical eyes, also, by deflecting to dead-end win/lose arguments about whether global warming is or is not happening, and the extent to which human activity is causing it. In order to really grasp Morningstar’s intention, a progressive person (for example) might need to set aside the elements of their own confirmation bias in order to understand that the writer is not making common cause with right-wing reactionary criticisms of Thunberg and unpleasant attacks on the young woman from a personalized “hater” perspective but instead offers a savvy critique of monopoly capitalism and the contemporary network of non-profit agencies, lenders, military equipment suppliers, and deep state agencies that has cooperated on such projects as selling wars around the planet and making perpetual war a reality, expanding the surveillance state to Orwellian proportions, installing an explicitly Neo Nazi government in Ukraine, and a fascist government in Honduras (note that eight out of ten asylum seekers who show up a the US-Mexico border are from that country), and the attempted coups d’etat against socialist governments in Nicaragua, Venezuela, Syria and other countries. This is a challenging subject to discuss people come to the table with pre-existing world views, values and assumptions. This is ironic, as one of Morningstar’s arguments is that the young pig-tailed girl’s role in fronting the campaign - and her promotion to superstar status by the media and various NGOs, foundations, and political actors (when so many other activists have been sidelined or even jailed) - is to cause and prevent meaningful debate.
It’s been interesting defending my article on Solarian.ca “ Not This Kind of Green” on social media.Īfter I shared the article on Facebook a number of people attacked the post, invariably confounding my invitation that people read Cory Morningstar’s superb multi-part series “ The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg” with the idea that Morningstar or myself are somehow criticizing the young woman at the center of the recent media phenomenon. The Gift that Keeps on Giving To the Ruling Elite: Cognitive Dissonance
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