Greens just can\u2019t help themselves. As the rest of us do what we can to tackle or withstand the\u00a0Covid-19 crisis, they treat it as a sign, a warning from nature, a telling-off to hubristic, destructive mankind. The speed with which they have folded this pandemic into their misanthropic narrative about humanity being a pox on the planet has been shocking, but not surprising.<\/p>\n
Right from the top of the UN, they have been promoting their backward belief that this virus is a reprimand from nature. Inger Andersen, executive director of the UN Environment Programme, says \u2018nature is sending us a message\u2019 with this pandemic and other recent disasters, including\u00a0bushfires in Australia\u00a0and locust invasions in Kenya. Of course nature is doing no such thing, because nature is not a sentient being, however much the new religion of environmentalism might fantasise that it is.<\/p>\n
Britain\u2019s chief bourgeois misanthrope, George Monbiot, was\u00a0hot on the heels\u00a0of the UN\u2019s eco-medievalists. He says Covid-19 has shattered humanity\u2019s self-serving myth that it has achieved \u2018insulation from natural hazards\u2019. There is a grotesque glee in the way Monbiot describes what Covid-19 has unleashed \u2013 \u2018the membrane has ruptured\u2019, he says, and \u2018we find ourselves naked and outraged, as the biology we appeared to have banished storms through our lives\u2019.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
“Insulation from natural hazards”? We somehow “banished” biology? Ummm, excuse me and all, Mr Moonbat, sir, but…well, I can’t honestly say I know ANYBODY—not a single living soul<\/u>—who believes ANY of that utter codswallop you just disgorged. I certainly don’t myself.<\/p>\nThis is also why so many greens online have been sharing\u00a0images of dolphins\u00a0swimming near Venice or an absence of airplane trails over California. Because to them, these are signs of a\u00a0benefit\u00a0from Covid-19: the humbling of humankind, the reining in of our industrial and technological activity, and the reassertion of nature\u2019s awesome power. If you see a disease as a political statement, as an opportunity to pursue your pre-existing misanthropic agendas, there is something very wrong with you.<\/p>\n
Even though all of this is morally perverse, it is not surprising. For a long time, greens have viewed human beings as a pox, a virus in our own right, doing untold damage to the planet. Green god David Attenborough\u00a0has said\u00a0humans are \u2018a plague on the planet\u2019. Even when greens don\u2019t use such explicitly hateful language, they constantly promote a view of human production and development as toxic and destructive.<\/p>\n
And they latch on to everything from bushfires to floods, from plagues of locusts to melting ice-caps, as signs from nature, lessons from a furious Gaia. When religious crackpots blame floods on gay marriage, claiming God is punishing us for losing the moral plot, we rightly mock them. Yet greens offer merely a secular version of such backward, apocalyptic claptrap.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Oh, there’s nothing secular about it. It’s more a contemporary twist on traditional religious faith—a perverse, bitter, ugly one, based not on love and redemption but on bilious contempt—more precisely attuned to the sensibilities of shriveled souls who scorn Christianity, mostly out of juvenile spite.<\/p>\n
The truth is that if the Covid-19 crisis has shown us anything, it is how awful it would be to live in the kind of world greens dream about. Right now, courtesy of a horrible new virus, our societies look not dissimilar to the kind of societies\u00a0Greta Thunberg,\u00a0Extinction Rebellion, green parties and others have long been agitating for. Fewer flights, industry halted, huge infrastructure projects put on hold. Less driving, less travelling, less human interaction. Over the past few weeks, as a result of our response to Covid-19, the \u2018human footprint\u2019 will undoubtedly have shrunk. And what an awful world it has become: smaller, quieter, more atomised.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Also stilted, impoverished, and fearful: a world in which trust has been supplanted by suspicion, comfort and ease by hardship and angst, hope by despair. Green weenies frequently blibber on about the necessity of a mass die-off in order to indulge their pet delusion of restoring “balance” and “harmony” between man and his natural environment. Too bad for us saner sorts that they seem determined to take our helpful response to heart and act on it: By all means. After you<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wouldn’t be caught dead living there, myself. Greens just can\u2019t help themselves. As the rest of us do what we can to tackle or withstand the\u00a0Covid-19 crisis, they treat it as a sign, a warning from nature, a telling-off to hubristic, destructive mankind. The speed…<\/p>\n
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