JANUARY 16, 2023
By Paul Homewood
The fall of capitalism will not come from the rise of the poor working class but from the destruction of the bored elite. This was the view of the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1942. Schumpeter believes that at some point in the future, the educated elite will have nothing left to fight for and will instead begin to struggle against the very system in which they themselves live.
Nothing makes me think Schumpeter was as right as the contemporary climate movement and its supporters. The Green Movement is not a reflection of the planetary crisis as so many media and cultures like to portray it, but rather a crisis of meaning for the wealthy.
Take, for example, a recent interview with Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich on CBS’s 60 Minutes. Ehrlich is most famous for his career as a professional doomsayer. His first major book, The Population Bomb, gave us endless false predictions, including the prediction that by the 1980s hundreds of millions of people would starve to death and from there it go downhill. Ehrlich assures us that Britain will no longer exist by 2000, that even modern fertilizers cannot help feed the world, and that fusion is very close.
“At the 2018 Climate Action Summit, two dozen billionaire-backed foundations pledged $4 billion in climate change lobbying. Some of them, such as the Hewlett Foundation, are directly funding journalists at the Associated Press for “climate reporting,” while foundations affiliated with the Packard and Rockefeller families have supported the reporting effort. solstice”Climate insurance now,” which “collaborates with journalists and newsrooms to create more urgent and informed climate stories” and are sponsoring hundreds of the media.”
Ehrlich, who just turned 90, is in the fortunate position of seeing all of his predictions fall flat—only to double them in his 60-minute interview, but The mainstream media still regards him as a modern day prophet.
The best answer to this question comes from a New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who famously said in 2019 that, “I think there are more people who care more about being exact, practical, and semantically right than about being morally right.” In other words, no matter what nonsense a person says, as long as it is “morally correct,” it doesn’t matter what the facts show.
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