{"id":60206,"date":"2021-11-01T07:27:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T12:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60206"},"modified":"2021-11-01T07:27:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T12:27:56","slug":"is-climate-alarmism-an-establishment-attempt-to-restore-social-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60206","title":{"rendered":"Is Climate Alarmism an Establishment Attempt to Restore Social Control?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-meta category-meta\">\n<h3 class=\"cat-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2021\/10\/28\/is-climate-alarmism-an-establishment-attempt-to-restore-social-unity\/\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Is Climate Alarmism an Establishment Attempt to Restore Social Control?<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content magazinenp-parts-item\">\n<p>Over the years, I\u2019ve noticed pretty much every establishment attempt to push a climate agenda is accompanied by a call for people to unite. What if fear of change, of loss of control, and a desire for social unity and predictability are the real driving force behind the climate push?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p><strong>Does the UK need a referendum on climate change pledges?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Critics say net-zero target has been imposed by \u2018elites\u2019 without electoral mandate<\/p>\n<p>27 OCT 2021<\/p>\n<p>A large proportion of the British public are in favour of a referendum on the government\u2019s net-zero proposals, according to a new poll by YouGov.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/institute.global\/policy\/democracy-and-net-zero-lessons-swiss-climate-referendum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tony Blair Institute<\/a>\u2019s Tim Lord rejected the idea that \u201celites\u201d are behind the drive for climate action. He said \u201cthere is irony in this \u2013 as it is the poorest who will be most severely affected by unconstrained climate change\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Lord agreed that the net-zero target was introduced in the summer of 2019 with minimal debate in the Commons and no mention of the plan in the 2017 election \u2013 but it was included in the Conservative manifesto ahead of the December 2019 election.<\/p>\n<p>While delivering net zero is a \u201ccomplex task\u201d that \u201ccannot be achieved without public support for both the overall goal, and the policies required to get there\u201d, this\u00a0\u201ccannot mean everyone supports every measure\u201d, he said. Consent must be drawn from a broad base and\u00a0\u201cnet zero has to be based around a politics of\u00a0unity, not division\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p><cite>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweek.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/954591\/does-the-uk-need-a-referendum-on-net-zero-pledges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.theweek.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/954591\/does-the-uk-need-a-referendum-on-net-zero-pledges<\/a><\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here\u2019s another call for unity;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p><strong>Pope Francis praises youth activists in fight to tackle climate change<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is said that you are the future, but in these matters, you are the present. You are those who are making the future today, in the present,\u201d the pontiff said.<\/p>\n<p><cite><\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><cite><\/cite>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Climate Alarmism an Establishment Attempt to Restore Social Control? Over the years, I\u2019ve noticed pretty much every establishment attempt to push a climate agenda is accompanied by a call for people to unite. What if fear of change, of loss of control, and a desire for social unity and predictability are the real driving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[32064,32007,141,32063,10726,21739],"class_list":["post-60206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-climate-agenda","tag-climate-alarmism","tag-climate-change","tag-eric-worrall","tag-establishment","tag-social-control"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60207,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60206\/revisions\/60207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}