Brilliant Comparison between Orwell’s 1984 and the Current AGW Fearmongers
Philip Stott of Global Warming Politics wrote a great article today discussing the Green’s crazy Economic schemes (some of which I discuss here). In that article, Stott makes an amazing comparison between George Orwell’s 1984 and the current trash being spewed by the Global Warming Alarmists.
The second tactic has been to try to manufacture, in the style of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1947), an all-encompassing external threat against which there must be perpetual war. The prime example of this is ‘global warming’, which has been likened in gravity to the Great World Wars.
Such a perpetual threat demands the downplaying of democracy, the legitimising of ‘Green’ totalitarianism, the destruction of markets, and the establishment of Ministries of Truth. The last are increasingly serviced by a regiment of civil servants who are locked into the current belief system. I find it not only amusing, but also a tad terrifying, that, in the UK, we have actually created a Climate Department [Newspeak: Miniclim?] to maintain the perpetual war.
It is worth recalling that Orwell’s protagonist, Winston Smith, an Outer Party member, was set the task of rewriting historical documents to match the party line, the orthodoxy of which could change weekly. This process included destroying evidence [cf. “There was no Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age”], amending newspaper articles [“Cooling is Warming”], and deleting the existence of people identified as “unpersons” [“Global Warming Denial is a Thought Crime”]. Interestingly, one of our finest novelists e-mailed me recently to inveigh against her local council’s creation of precisely such a Winston Smith post, namely a Climate Change Officer on a large salary paid for by us good citizens out of an ever-increasing Council Tax.
Brilliant, utterly brilliant.
