Insulation

I am not a climatologist. Where I do not understand a field, I am predisposed to look up to honest authority. That means that if I am to heed a climatologist, I should like to know that he or she is honest.

If the climatologists are working for that rape ring called "United Nations", I turn them off. If I hear that they are out to "improve the economy" or to start a "Green New Deal" or to institute a "Green Collar Economy" or to "make the world a better place" - these have nothing to do with the climate, and I turn them off. If they be at all involved in gender reassignation or other antiscientific witchcraft, like Bill Nye is: off.

Even where not compromised, many academics and mediaites are insulated. It's like an upper class Jew lecturing against White Privilege. "Some of you may die; but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make." . . .

It is in that spirit that I point to David Dubya-Dubya here. He's got a brother Benjamin, who also gets boring Coastal wisdom published in boring Coastal magazines.

Besides the nepotism, or coincidence, DWW has a sort of double insulation inasmuch as he's taking money to deliver the reports he's delivering. Although his conflict of interest seems more subtle than that of, say, a direct United Nations employee. Or of a Caribbean politician sniffing out the next Reparations shakedown.

Personally the man comes off as a Gamma, a personality-type most of us detest. He'd got squished in a one-on-one argument, so he ends this article here with a return to the Jerk Store. Now he can get the last word, in print! But D. W-W'd probably got raised by a Strong Woman and by some Beta for a dad, so we cannot blame him overmuch for his brittle psyche.

My real problem is that DWW's ending feels like projection.

He claims the Guardian figure of 197000 deaths from pollution. This - DWW assumes - should be universally attacked as Too Much. And so it is - if this fine-tuned number is even accurate, rather than "less than 200000". And if those deaths weren't also associated with daily improvements in human life, like the computers which DWW and the Guardian use to get their message to us. And if pollution wasn't being exacerbated, as it is in London and Germany, by the move away from fossil-fuels... back to wood.

But hey, maybe it's just a matter of some finely-tuned new taxes and regulations. DWW will be fine, continuing to write his pieces under his lord's patronage. I doubt DWW would care about the people deemed Klimate Kulak under a Green New Deal. They'll just lose their jobs and become homeless somewhere else. The American-Indianing of the American working class doesn't have the same obvious metrics as pollution deaths, so it's not happening.

In anything there are trade-offs. The trick is to decide which side has to lose and by how much.

And DWW would rather it was you.

BOOK 11/15/2021: He's got one.